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Treasury International Capital Data for January 2020
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for January 2020. The sum total in January of all net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities, short-term U.S. securities, and banking flows was a net TIC inflow of $122.9 billion. Of this, net foreign private inflows were $94.1 billion, and net foreign official inflows were $28.7 billion.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in January; net purchases were $28.0 billion. Net purchases by private foreign investors were $26.4 billion, while net purchases by foreign official institutions were $1.6 billion. U.S. residents increased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net purchases of $7.1 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, net foreign purchases of long-term securities were $20.9 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 $3.8 billion in January.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $13.6 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities increased by $5.1 billion. Banks’ own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents increased by $121.6 billion.
Posted: March 16, 2020 Monday 04:00 PM