Thursday, October 04, 2007

End of the US Dollar as reserve currency of choice continued...

Country could be small, but trend is big. On every USD dollar spike more and more US Treasuries will be sold in order to diversify assets out of Subprime currency, gold and silver will fly:

"Dollar's double blow from Vietnam and Qatar
"Vietnam is planning to cut its purchases of US Treasuries and other dollar bonds, raising fears that Asian central banks with control over two thirds of the world's foreign reserves may soon join the flight from US assets.
Vietnam, which has mid-sized reserves of $40bn, is seen as weather vane for the bigger Asian powers.
Together they hold $3,575bn of foreign reserves, over 65pc of the world's total. China leads with $1,340bn, but South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and even Thailand all built up massive holdings.
Separately, the gas-rich Gulf state of Qatar announced that it had cut the dollar holdings of its $50bn sovereign wealth fund from 99pc to 40pc, switching into investments in China, Japan, and emerging Asia."

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