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‘This is the single biggest change in capital markets, maybe of all time’ – Union Bank Switzerland
“China’s launch on Monday of its crude futures exchange will improve the clout of the yuan in financial markets and could threaten the international primacy of the dollar, argues a new report by Hayden Briscoe, APAC head of fixed income at UBS Asset Management. ‘This is the single biggest change in capital markets, maybe of all time,’ Briscoe said in a follow-up telephone interview.”
Let’s just assume for a moment that an oil contract denominated and settled in Chinese yuan for whatever reasons becomes more attractive to oil traders than one denominated and settled in U.S. dollars. To the degree that decision is shared among market participants, demand will lessen for dollars and increase for yuan – strengthening one and weakening the other. Instead of all oil purchases being routed through the dollar, some level of the international oil trade will be routed through the yuan instead, including among American companies. “This,” says UBS’ Hayden Briscoe, “helps cement the exchange’s viability and challenges the petro-dollar system, in which oil deals are executed in dollars. This would decrease demand for the greenback and boost U.S. inflation.”
At this time, it is impossible to gauge the impact except to say that such a change in oil market dynamics goes far beyond ordinary commerce to the very heart of the monetary and financial system simply because oil is such a huge chunk of the daily international commerce. That is why Briscoe says it is “the biggest single change in capital markets, maybe of all time.”
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