The re-pricing of oil in some unit other than the dollar should, on its own, have no direct effect on the value of the US currency. It might accelerate the rebalancing of official reserves away from US assets and would presumably be symbolic of a more general loss of confidence in the dollar. But as such it would be a reflection of more fundamental problems, rather than a cause.
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