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Treasury International Capital Data for April 2017
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for April 2017. The sum total in April of all net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities, short-term U.S. securities, and banking flows was a monthly net TIC inflow of $65.8 billion. Of this, net foreign private inflows were $72.8 billion, and net foreign official outflows were $7.0 billion.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in April; net sales were $0.8 billion. Net purchases by private foreign investors were $1.4 billion, while net sales by foreign official institutions were $2.2 billion. U.S. residents decreased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net sales of $2.7 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, net foreign purchases of long-term securities were $1.8 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 $11.2 billion in April.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $7.2 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities increased by $26.0 billion. Banks' own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents increased by $51.0 billion.
Posted: June 15, 2017 Thursday 04:00 PM