But on this occasion they were protesting against a local government plan to build a 55.9 - billion -
yuan oil refining and petrochemical complex in the city's outskirts.
Russia is off the petro - dollar and quite married to China now and the Silk Road Dedollarized Zone is now underway as is the the soon to be launched
Yuan Oil Benchmark fully exchangeable for physical gold.
While the official goal of the new futures contract is to establish a regional benchmark for more useful pricing of the crude grades prevalent on the Chinese market, analysts see
the yuan oil futures as a step toward China seeking wider acceptance of its currency in global trade, including the oil trade, and establishing a petro - yuan that could challenge, in the future, the dominance of the petrodollar.
Not exact matches
Interestingly, part of Russia's success in China has been attributed to its willingness to accept Chinese
yuan denominated currency for its
oil.
The plan is to launch an
oil futures contract on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE), but there are obstacles in convincing large
oil producers and consumers in using the
yuan and investing in the Shanghai benchmark.
An
oil futures market based in
yuan will stimulate demand for the Chinese currency, which China believes will lend it strategic clout.
To that end, reports indicate that China is set to introduce an
oil benchmark priced in
yuan in the coming months.
China is taking its first steps towards paying for imported crude
oil in
yuan instead of the U.S. dollar, three people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Oil and gas sales rose 16 per cent to 110.8 billion
yuan, more than offsetting higher operating costs.
The Shanghai
oil futures contract is similarly designed to wrest some control over pricing from the main benchmarks in New York and London — West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent — and to promote the use of the
yuan, also known as the renminbi.
Priced in
yuan and traded on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange, it's the first such Asian benchmark for
oil deals.
That just puts the price of
oil that much farther out of U.S. motorists» reach, while a soaring
Yuan would give China's motorists a big currency - adjusted discount at their pumps.
China has become the world's largest
oil importer, and despite establishing the largely successful
yuan - denominated
oil futures, Beijing will have to grapple with an overlooked geopolitical and economic consequence as Continue Reading
Although there is no indication yet that Aramco would want
yuan for its
oil, the Saudis said a couple of weeks ago that they would be willing to consider issuing
yuan - denominated bonds, in what could be a break from the practice to issue debt only in U.S. dollars.
It could also increase Beijing's bargaining power to convince Aramco to accept
yuan payments for its
oil instead of U.S. dollars, as China is trying to make its currency a global one.
China's ultimate goal is to convince Saudi Arabia — one of China's top - three
oil suppliers — to take
yuan in exchange for
oil, and thus to abandon the 45 - year link of Saudi
oil to the petro - dollar.
China has begun trading for
oil in
yuan, recently launching its so - called «petro -
yuan.»
Local media have reported that China could launch a crude
oil futures contract priced in
yuan as early as Jan. 18, although analysts and industry executives who spoke to Breakingviews believe a later start is more likely.
Global shares tumbled for a sixth day on Thursday and
oil prices slid to levels not seen since the early 2000s, after China guided the
yuan lower and Shanghai shares tumbled 7 % in less than half an hour.
China finally launched last month its
yuan - denominated crude
oil futures that have been in the works for years, after several delays.
Russian
oil producers to make money from China's
yuan - backed crude futures — analysts Kozmino, an
oil - loading sea port in Primorsky Region, the terminal point of the Eastern Siberia — Pacific...
On the political front, «Denominating
oil contracts in
yuan would promote the use of China's currency in global trade, one of the country's key long - term goals as an alternative to the dollar — making this even more appealing to sanctions - threatened countries relying on the dollar,» Ramady wrote in The National.
They take the
Yuan the Chinese pay them for
oil and then turn around and buy it on the Shanghai Exchange.
The world's first
yuan - denominated
oil contracts launched today, as part of China's drive to turn its currency into a global force in markets.
BEIJING (AP)-- A Chinese investment holding company said it has signed a letter of intent to purchase
oil fields in Texas for 8.3 billion
yuan ($ 1.3 billion) through a limited liability partnership.
Hayden Briscoe, Head of Fixed Income, Asia Pacific, at UBS Asset Management, said in a report just before the Chinese futures launched that «We believe that in the long term this will change how
oil is traded globally, create a petro -
yuan currency flow, increase the role of the RMB [renminbi — Ed.]
There was also a fair amount of bad news baked into the price of stocks at the beginning of 2016 that never materialized (a U.S. recession, Chinese
yuan devaluation and crash in
oil prices, for instance).
After Monday's launch of the
yuan - backed
oil futures in Shanghai, there have been negotiation between Russia and China on mutual promotion of
oil futures in national currencies, RIA Novosti reported.
China has launched
oil futures backed by
yuan, and Beijing has what Gaddafi didn't, according to the expert.
It's been reported that China has even approached Saudi Arabia about
yuan - based
oil sales — a direct threat to the decades - long monopoly of the U.S. petrodollar.
Recent stabilization in dollar valuation,
yuan exchange rate, as well as prices of crude
oil should ease some concerns on the inflation front.
The Chinese with their nose know we talked about before when they first announced it about three months ago that they were doing the
Yuan - gold -
oil interest in arbitrage that helped play it.
A possible game changer is the Petro -
yuan, the Chinese government's plans to start a crude
oil futures contract priced in
yuan and convertible into gold.
As the
yuan progressively reaches full consolidation in trade settlement, the petro -
yuan threat to the US dollar, inscribed in a complex, long - term process, will disseminate the Holy Grail: crude
oil futures contracts priced in
yuan fully convertible into gold...
It marks the first time overseas investors have been able to access a Chinese commodity market — an
oil futures contract — that can be settled, not only with U.S. dollars, but also Chinese
Yuan, eventually a basket of currencies... and gold.
They listen to the «experts» and pay attention to big changes, like the Chinese
yuan - for -
oil event we're discussing here.
This artificially low price has cost the largest
oil refinery company in the country — and third largest in the world — Sinopec more than 20 billion
yuan this year.
The Shanghai International Energy Exchange is launching a crude -
oil futures contract that's denominated in
Yuan.
News # 1: China might be just days away from launching its
Yuan - denominated
oil futures on the Shanghai exchange.
[While we're at it: a) I suspect the strength of the dollar &
yuan will add (smaller) pluses and minuses to the P&L, while b) the lower
oil price may add a second tailwind for OnePlastics in 2015, but larger customers & competitors will probably ensure much of this benefit gets passed along eventually].
Though he was initially trained as an
oil painter, Deng Guo
Yuan also began creating sculptures and installations that both pay respect to traditions in Chinese art and incorporate elements of Western aesthetics.
Cai
Yuan trained in
oil painting at Nanjing College of Art, Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College of Art.
Artists Sun
Yuan (b. 1972 in Beijing) and Peng Yu (b. 1974 in Heilongjian, China) both studied
oil painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.
China is bound to be dependent on coal for energy — we can not afford
oil as an alternative when it costs more than US$ 100 dollars (680
yuan) a barrel.
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