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BRICS settles first oil trades outside the dollar

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Two BRICS members settled crude shipments in a basket of local currencies this month, the first live test of the bloc's payments rail. Volumes are tiny, symbolism is not. For India, cheaper settlement cuts both ways: lower costs on Russian crude, but a rupee that global markets still treat with caution.

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