Status of the US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: USD Share Drops to Lowest since 1994
Central Banks diversify their holdings into dozens of smaller “non-traditional reserve currencies.”
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET.
The share of USD-denominated assets held by other central banks dropped to 56.9% of total foreign exchange reserves in Q3, the lowest since 1994, from 57.1% in Q2 and 58.5% in Q1, according to the IMF’s new data on Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves.
USD-denominated foreign exchange reserves include US Treasury securities, US mortgage-backed...
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