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PostSubject: WHOA! Gulf Central Banks May Depeg From USD   WHOA!  Gulf Central Banks May Depeg From USD Icon_minitimeTue Mar 18, 2008 12:20 am

Pressure is mounting on central banks in the Gulf to fight surging inflation when they meet on Wednesday by severing the link between their currencies and the tumbling US dollar.

Officials in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have denied rumours of an imminent decoupling, but investors are betting on reform and are rushing to buy local currencies as investment banks issue fresh calls for revaluation.

Analysts said that, despite the momentum, the Gulf states were unlikely to decouple suddenly from the dollar. They predicted more measured moves towards links to a basket of currencies.

“The feeling is [that] unilateral moves would only cause more confusion and difficulties for those countries who try to maintain the peg,” Jason Goff, head of group treasury and market sales at Emirates Bank, said. Mr Goff said that the Gulf states were more likely to move towards establishing a monetary union before they dropped the dollar. “I'm not holding my breath for a de-peg any time soon,” he said.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article3564014.ece
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