[rattus]

OPEC has been moving to a basket of currencies instead of the USD standard for a while now, so I'm unclear on your point. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-o... http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/leading-artic...

Not exactly new developments: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1828&dat=19801006&...

The Yuan isn't really a publicly traded currency which is why it's interesting, I guess.