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Treasury International Capital Data for June 2014
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for June 2014. The sum total in June of all net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities, short-term U.S. securities, and banking flows was a monthly net TIC outflow of $153.5 billion. Of this, net foreign private outflows were $156.9 billion, and net foreign official inflows were $3.4 billion.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in June; net sales were $18.4 billion. Net sales by private foreign investors were $44.6 billion, while net purchases by foreign official institutions were $26.3 billion. U.S. residents increased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net purchases of $0.4 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, net foreign sales of long-term securities were $18.7 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 $30.2 billion in June.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $15.9 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities decreased by $5.7 billion. Banks’ own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents decreased by $117.6 billion.
Posted: August 15, 2014 Friday 09:00 AM