Gold has overtaken the euro as the world’s second-largest reserve currency, and I expect it to surpass the US dollar. Read my ...

The independence of central banks, which allows policymakers to operate free from political meddling, is considered ...

The Bank of England has asked some lenders to test their resilience to potential U.S. dollar shocks, three sources said, the ...

A reserve currency is also used to price commodities that all economies need, like oil, gold, silver and natural gas. The U.S. dollar is the primary reserve currency in the world and has been for ...

The dollar’s role as the world’s primary reserve currency helps all of us Americans by keeping interest rates low. Foreign countries buy United States Treasury debt not just as an investment ...

The House of Representatives voted on legislation that could prevent the future abuse of Americans’ financial freedom through ...

Reserve currency is a currency that other states massively use to create their reserves, conduct international settlements, as an investment asset, and for other purposes.

Key Points Bitcoin isn't an asset held by most central banks.It still has a handful of the properties that are common to reserve currencies.Therefore, it's likely that it will eventually be regarded ...

Every few years, the economic and financial media run stories prophesying the end of the U.S. dollar’s role as a reserve currency, its replacement with the Chinese renminbi, and the supposed ...

Historians have noted that the American dollar surpassed the British pound as the world's de facto reserve currency in the 1920s, as England's economy struggled after World War I while the U.S ...

The euro trails the U.S. dollar and gold for global central reserves, and European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde ...

Of course, the dollar’s reserve-currency status is not a divine right, and the Fed should step up its determination to fight inflation. But currency dominance is a sticky kind of power.