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Treasury International Capital Data for January 2014
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for January 2014. 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 $83.0 billion. Of this, net foreign private inflows were $115.9 billion, and net foreign official outflows were $32.8 billion.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in January; net sales were $14.8 billion. Net purchases by private foreign investors were $1.8 billion, while net sales by foreign official institutions were $16.5 billion. U.S. residents decreased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net sales of $22.0 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, the net foreign purchases of long-term securities were $7.3 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 $2.5 billion in January.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $15.3 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities increased by $1.0 billion. Banks’ own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents increased by $84.6 billion.
Posted: March 17, 2014 Monday 09:00 AM