Aussie, Canada dollars termed reserve currencies by IMF

``In a seemingly innocuous yet highly portentous move, the IMF is asking member countries from next year to include the Australian  and Canadian dollars -0.02%  in statistics supplied by reserve-holding nations on the make-up of their central banks' foreign exchange reserves. The technical-sounding measure, reflecting growing diversification of the world's $10.5 trillion of reserves, is likely over time to exert wide-ranging impact on world bond and equity markets.''