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Wikipedia: List of sovereign states by current account balance
Surplus in Billion US-Dollar (2011)
Rank Country	  Surplus
1.   Saudi Arabia 252.756
2.   Germany	  219.938
3.   Russia	  198.760
4.   China	  155.142
Here's why neither the Ruble nor the Yuan can be reserve currencies: there just aren't enough Ruble- or Yuan-denominated assets going around to support it.

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Apr 27th, 2014 at 03:28:31 AM EST
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