Dollar als weltweite Leitwährung?

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Kalifornien ist nicht Griechenland

Warum bringt die desaströse Haushaltslage der Hellenen den Euro in Schwierigkeiten, aber warum bleibt der Dollar von den Finanzlöchern im Schwarzenegger-Staat unbeeindruckt? Diese Frage wird seit Tagen diskutiert. Ökonomen verwerfen den Vergleich.

Kalifornien könnte für die USA zum größeren Problem werden als Griechenland für die Euro-Zone. Das war zuletzt von einigen Experten wie EZB-Präsident Jean-Claude Trichet zu hören. "Eine etwas schwierige Gegenüberstellung", findet der US-Starökonom Barry Eichengreen von der Universität Berkeley. "Man sollte diesen Vergleich gar nicht erst ziehen", sagt auch Marco Annunziata, Chefvolkswirt von Unicredit.....

Ich hoffe Erich du kannst dich noch gut erinnern an unsere Diskussion über Nation und losen Verbund den wir mahl geführt haben, dies war noch vor der Euro Kriese bzw. vor der Euro Entzauberung.


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Euro-Währungsreserven werden fallen

Eine große US-Investmentbank prognostiziert in ihrer heutigen Studie, dass der Anteil des Euro an den weltweiten Devisenreserven wieder fallen und und in den nächsten zwei Jahren unter 25% sinken wird....

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Euro falls against dollar on China, Europe worries

NEW YORK — The dollar rally continued on Friday.

The dollar rose to a 9-month high against the euro as worries about bank lending curbs in China and European debt woes drove investors to safe havens like the dollar.

In late afternoon trading in New York, the euro fell to $1.3612 from $1.3686 late Thursday. Earlier in the day, it dropped as low as $1.3533, its weakest point since May 2009. The euro is now well off its recent high level of $1.51 reached last November.

The British pound slipped to $1.5669 from $1.5697, and the dollar rose to 89.96 Japanese yen from 89.74 yen.

China told its banks to build more reserves and cut back on lending for the second time in a month. That raised fears that growth would slow in China, which could hurt companies that export and do business there.

Meanwhile European economic data deepened worries about the region's ability to deal with swelling budget deficits in Greece and other weak economies in the region. On Friday, the European Union said countries that use the euro grew a meager 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter, while Germany didn't grow at all. Germany is the continent's biggest economy....

Ah ja wegen SDR:


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Central Bankers Support Dollar Reserve

MUMBAI -- The use of the International Monetary Fund's Special Drawing Rights facility as an alternative reserve currency to replace the U.S. dollar is remote in the near term, heads of several central banks said Saturday.

"The possibility of SDR as a meaningful reserve currency are remote in any reasonable time horizon partly because of the governing structure of the IMF, partly because it doesn't solve the reserve and adjustment problem in our opinion," Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, said at a panel discussion organized by India's central bank.

His Indian counterpart Duvvuri Subbarao echoed his views, calling the plan a "tall order."

The SDR is an international reserve asset, created by the IMF in 1969 to supplement its member countries' official reserves. Its value is based on a basket of four key international currencies, and they can be exchanged for freely usable currencies.

Discussions on using SDRs as a potential reserve currency gained momentum when People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan floated the idea of a global currency delinked from sovereign nations. China is the biggest holder of U.S. dollar assets and the greenback's decline has been a source of worry for the Asian nation....