Saudi minister warns of dollar collapse

Saudi minister warns of dollar collapse

www.thebusiness.co.uk

The dollar could collapse if Opec officially admits considering changing the pricing of oil into alternative currencies such as the euro, the Saudi Arabian foreign minister has warned.

Prince Saud Al-Faisal was overheard ruling out a proposal from Iran and Venezuela to discuss pricing crude in a private meeting at the oil cartel's conference.

In an embarrassing blunder at the meeting in Riyadh, ministers' microphones were not cut off during a key closed meeting.................

[edit on 16-11-2007 by BlueRidge]

It seems the dollar collapse theory is not just in the realm of the loony bin. This is the first time in my knowledge that a person of considerable wealth and importance has stated such a thing, although it was not meant to be so open.

www.thebusiness.co.uk
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[edit on 16-11-2007 by BlueRidge]

Iranian oil bourse.

Iran is planning to open a commodity exchange, variously referred to as the Iran Petroleum Exchange, International Oil Bourse or Iranian Oil Bourse. The acronym IOB has been used as it can be interpreted as either "International Oil Bourse" or "Iranian Oil Bourse", but it has no official status. It would be a Petrobourse for petroleum, petrochemicals and gas in various non-dollar currencies, primarily the euro. If successful, it would establish a euro-based pricing mechanism for oil trading, or oil marker as it is called by traders.

The geographical location is expected to be the Persian Gulf island of Kish (which is designated by Iran as a free trade zone.)[1].

The exchange has not yet opened, having missed at least three announced opening dates.

Although opening an oil bourse has so far been unsuccessful, Iran has had success in asking its petroleum customers to pay in non-dollar currencies. As of October 3, 2007, Iran currently receives non-dollar currencies for 85% of its oil exports with euros composing 65% and yen 20%. Iran is currently planning on moving the remaining 15% of dollar denominated oil exports to other currencies such as the United Arab Emirates dirham.[2]

This is slowing developing, I know the Wiki page talks up "missing openings" but *they* just got Japan to agree to this and that's news, seems like this is the smart approach to such a market. The Japanese run the auto market show these days, the majority of cars are foreign and Toyota or Honda are on top of auto sales lists.

Collapse of the dollar? At about $1.50 to the euro, we ain't seen nothing yet. Druggie Jr officially destroying America.


[edit on 16-11-2007 by anhinga]

"My feeling is that the mere mention that the Opec countries are studying the issue of the dollar is itself going to have an impact that endangers the interests of the countries. "There will be journalists who will seize on this point and we don't want the dollar to collapse instead of doing something good for Opec."

After around 40 minutes press officials cut off the feed, which had been accidentally broadcast to the press room.

Whoops!

Oh man, what a total SNAFU. This can't be good. The last time a comment like that slipped by the Chinese minister, the markets were thoroughly shaken :shk:

Edit to add: I guess this just went down the gutters:

Fed pumps 47.25 bln dlrs into US banking system

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Markets were down all week. We'll never see 15k Dow with stories like these. The 'record' was set at 14k and now it's hovering around 13k.

Stories of market dropping 60% have shown up around here, it would not surprise me one bit. The full damage of the foreclosure/credit collapse hasn't been 'uncovered' yet. By this time next year, we're going to be talking G Depression -- 2.0.