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Treasury International Capital Data for August 2015
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for August 2015. The sum total in August of all net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities, short-term U.S. securities, and banking flows was a monthly net TIC outflow of $9.2 billion. Of this, net foreign private inflows were $37.3 billion, and net foreign official outflows were $46.5 billion.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in August; net sales were $21.8 billion. Net purchases by private foreign investors were $19.8 billion, while net sales by foreign official institutions were $41.5 billion. U.S. residents decreased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net sales of $42.2 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, net foreign purchases of long-term securities were $20.4 billion. After including adjustments, such as estimates of unrecorded principal payments to foreigners on U.S. asset-backed securities, overall net foreign purchases of long-term securities are estimated to have been $6.3 billion in August.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $7.1 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities increased by $1.5 billion. Banks’ own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents decreased by $17.0 billion.
Posted: October 16, 2015 Friday 02:00 PM