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By Rhod Mackenzie

Russia and China began actively using the yuan in their trade in 2022. This is now undermining the US dollar's position as the world's reserve currency. This is the conclusion of a study by economists at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Historically, it takes...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russian billionaires have withdrawn tens of billions of dollars of assets from Europe since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, under the influence of international sanctions and the Russian authorities' favourable asset repatriation policy. As calculated by Bloomber...

By Anna Koroleva

In July 2023, the share of the dollar in international settlements, according to the Swift system, rose to a record 46.5%. However, as experts note, the share of settlements going through Swift itself is noticeably decreasing, so that its statistics no longer reflect the entire tu...

By Sergey Manukov

Over the past few months, the Chinese Ministry of Finance has been aggressively selling US government bonds. As a result of this sale, as of the end of June, China had “only” $835 billion left, according to Business Insider. Of course, this is a lot, but not for China. The last t...