Los aires de
cambio siguen soplando con fuerza variable en los mercados internacionales. Uno
de ellos es el relativo a la debilidad del petrodólar frente a alternativas
cada día más posibles. China está por lanzarse al mercado de futuros de
petróleo con un yuan convertible en oro. Así lo cuenta Tsvetana Paraskova,
desde Pekín, para el sitio web OilPrice.com:
Título: China
Readies Yuan-Priced Crude Oil Benchmark Backed By Gold
Texto: The
world’s top oil importer, China, is preparing to launch a crude oil futures
contract denominated in Chinese yuan and convertible into gold, potentially
creating the most important Asian oil benchmark and allowing oil exporters to
bypass U.S.-dollar denominated benchmarks by trading in yuan, Nikkei Asian
Review reports.
The crude oil
futures will be the first commodity contract in China open to foreign
investment funds, trading houses, and oil firms. The circumvention of U.S.
dollar trade could allow oil exporters such as Russia and Iran, for example, to
bypass U.S. sanctions by trading in yuan, according to Nikkei Asian Review. To
make the yuan-denominated contract more attractive, China plans the yuan to be
fully convertible in gold on the Shanghai and Hong Kong exchanges.
Last month, the
Shanghai Futures Exchange and its subsidiary Shanghai International Energy
Exchange, INE, successfully completed four tests in production environment for
the crude oil futures, and the exchange continues with preparatory works for
the listing of crude oil futures, aiming for the launch by the end of this
year. ?
“The rules of the
global oil game may begin to change enormously,” Luke Gromen, founder of
U.S.-based macroeconomic research company FFTT, told Nikkei Asia Review.
The
yuan-denominated futures contract has been in the works for years, and after
several delays, it looks like it may be launched this year. Some potential
foreign traders have been worried that the contract would be priced in yuan.
But according to
analysts who spoke to Nikkei Asian Review, backing the yuan-priced futures with
gold would be appealing to oil exporters, especially to those that would rather
avoid U.S. dollars in trade.
“It is a
mechanism which is likely to appeal to oil producers that prefer to avoid using
dollars, and are not ready to accept that being paid in yuan for oil sales to
China is a good idea either,” Alasdair Macleod, head of research at Goldmoney,
told Nikkei.
disculpame pero lo posteé en face. a tu artículo. lo posteé porque creo que todo lo que está pasando, incluída la marcha del viernes, discute lo mismo. gracias.
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