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Treasury International Capital Data for January 2015
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for January 2015. The sum total in January of all net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities, short-term U.S. securities, and banking flows was a monthly net TIC inflow of $88.3 billion. Of this, net foreign private inflows were $60.7 billion, and net foreign official inflows were $27.6 billion.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in January; net sales were $39.8 billion. Net sales by private foreign investors were $27.8 billion, while net sales by foreign official institutions were $12.0 billion. U.S. residents decreased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net sales of $12.6 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, net foreign sales of long-term securities were $27.2 billion. After including adjustments, such as estimates of unrecorded principal payments to foreigners on U.S. asset-backed securities, overall net foreign sales of long-term securities are estimated to have been $39.3 billion in January.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $10.8 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities decreased by $8.1 billion. Banks' own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents increased by $135.7 billion.
Posted: March 16, 2015 Monday 04:00 PM