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It was created in particular to be a convenient unit of account for commodities transactions and having less volatility than the component currencies. | It was created in particular to be a convenient unit of account for commodities transactions and having less volatility than the component currencies. | ||
It was launched in 2009. | |||
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* [[Commodity]] | |||
* [[Currency basket]] | * [[Currency basket]] | ||
* [[Gross domestic product]] (GDP) | * [[Gross domestic product]] (GDP) | ||
Latest revision as of 19:19, 20 October 2022
(WOCU).
The WOCU is a global composite currency unit made up of a basket of the currencies of the 20 largest economies, weighted by relative GDP.
It was created in particular to be a convenient unit of account for commodities transactions and having less volatility than the component currencies.
It was launched in 2009.
