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Also für China wäre es keine gute Idee die Dollarreserven loszuwerden.
Sie sind aber auf dem besten Weg dahin und kaufen immer mehr Öllieferungen bereits in €.
Die Japaner haben den "Befehl" aus Teheran, hinkünftig in € oder vielleicht auch Yen zu fakturieren auch schon erhalten und warten anscheinend noch ab. Wohl nicht mehr lange...
China shifts to euros for Iran oilChen Aizhu – Reuters March 27, 2007
China's state-run Zhuhai Zhenrong Corp, the biggest buyer of Iranian crude worldwide, began paying for its oil in euros late last year as Tehran moves to diversify its foreign reserves away from U.S. dollars.
The Chinese firm, which buys more than a tenth of exports from the world's fourth-largest crude producer, has changed the payment currency for the bulk of its roughly 240,000 barrels per day (bpd) contract, Beijing-based sources said.
Japanese buyers, including top refiner Nippon Oil Corp. <5001.T>, said they had all received inquiries from Iran to pay on non-U.S. dollar terms, but were awaiting an official request.
"We are looking at it so that we can switch the currencies any time, but we have not gotten any official requests from them (NIOC). We are doing the transactions in dollars (now)," Nippon Oil chairman Fukuaki Watari told reporters last week.
Japanese refiners who buy about 500,000 bpd of Iranian crude, nearly a quarter of Iran's 2.2 million-bpd shipments, continue to pay in dollars but are willing to shift to yen if asked, industry sources and officials said separately.
Iranian officials have said for months that more than half the OPEC member's customers switched their payment currency away from the dollar as Tehran seeks to diversify its reserves, but news of the Zhenrong change is the first outside confirmation.
The price of the oil is still based on dollar quotes.
The shift, being watched closely by foreign exchange traders, comes amid an extended row between Tehran and Washington over Iran's nuclear programme.
Quelle: http://business.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=474362007
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