俄羅斯會首次購買加元、澳元

俄羅斯會首次購買加元、澳元（更新2）
Russia to Buy Canadian, Aussie Dollars for First Time (Update 2)
June 16, 2010, 2:59 AM EDT
(Adds ruble trading in eleventh paragraph.)

By Paul Abelsky and Maria Levitov

June 16 (Bloomberg) -- Russia may add the Australian and Canadian dollars to its international reserves for the first time after fluctuations in the U.S. dollar and euro.
6月16日（彭博） - 俄羅斯可能首次增加澳元及加元在其國際儲備，在美元和歐元的波動後。
“Adding the Australian dollar is being discussed,” Alexei Ulyukayev, the central bank’s first deputy chairman, said in an interview at an event hosted by Bloomberg in Moscow last night. “There are pros and cons. We have added the Canadian dollar but haven’t yet begun operations” with the currency.
“添加澳元正在討論中，”中央銀行第一副行長阿列克謝烏柳卡耶夫在接受採訪時，在昨晚一項由莫斯科彭博舉辦的活動說。 “有其優點和缺點，我們已加持加元，但尚未開始行動“那貨幣。
U.S. dollars account for 47 percent of Russia’s reserves, while euros make up 41 percent, British pounds 10 percent and Japanese yen 2 percent, Ulyukyaev said in November. The central bank has reduced dollars from 50 percent in 2006, when euros accounted for 40 percent and the remaining 10 percent was in yen and pounds. Russia’s international reserves, the world’s third biggest, reached $458.2 billion on June 4.
美元佔俄羅斯外匯儲備的百分之47，而歐元佔百分之41，英鎊百分之10和日元百分之二，Ulyukyaev在11月說。央行已經從2006年 的50%減少美元，當時歐元佔百分之四十，其餘的百分之十是日元和英鎊。俄羅斯的國際儲備是世界上第三大，在6月4日達4.582兆億美元。
President Dmitry Medvedev last year suggested Russia would reduce its use of the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency after the greenback lost 34 percent of its value against the euro in 2 ½ years. The euro fell to a four-year low of $1.1877 on June 7 and has dropped 22 percent since Nov. 25 on investor concern policy makers may fail to contain Europe’s debt crisis.

Push to Diversify

Russia’s push to diversify reserves “is more a result of their desire to do something in response to the extreme volatility of the dollar and the euro,” said Elena Matrosova, a Moscow-based economist at BDO International, the financial consultancy that lists the central bank among its clients. The Canadian or Australian dollar “can’t be truly called international reserve currencies because of their very limited liquidity,” she said.

The Australian dollar traded near the strongest level since mid-May, at 86.43 U.S. cents as of 6:40 a.m. in London.

The Canadian and Australian dollars have been among the best performers in the past 12 months as investors speculated a recovering global economy would increase demand for the countries’ raw materials. The Canadian dollar has gained 10 percent against the U.S. currency and 23 percent versus the euro during that period. The Australian dollar is up 8.6 percent and 21 percent, respectively.

Ruble Gains

Medvedev has pushed for the creation of regional reserve currencies and in July produced a prototype coin for a “world currency,” which he said was needed to stabilize the global economy.

Central Bank Chairman Sergey Ignatiev said May 27 that Russia hadn’t changed the currency structure of its reserves after year-end figures showed Russia increased the portion held in dollars.

The U.S. dollar may account for more than half of Russia’s foreign currency reserves by the end of this year, Paris-based BNP Paribas estimated last month.

The ruble has gained almost 11 percent against the euro and 0.2 percent versus the dollar in the past 12 months. The Russian currency strengthened for a fifth day against the greenback, climbing 0.7 percent to 31.1450 for its longest winning streak in two months.

Russia had a net capital inflow of about $3 billion in May after an inflow of between $3 billion and $4 billion in the previous month, said Ulyukayev.

“There was a small capital inflow of about $3 billion in May, according to preliminary calculations,” he said.

The Russian government forecasts no net capital inflow this year after outflows of $52.4 billion in 2009.

--With assistance from Denis Maternovsky in Moscow. Editors: Willy Morris, Gavin Serkin

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-16/russia-to-buy-canadian-aussie-dollars-for-first-time-update2-.html

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