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Treasury International Capital Data for September 2013
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for September 2013. The sum total in September of all net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities, short-term U.S. securities, and banking flows was a monthly net TIC outflow of negative $106.8 billion. Of this, net foreign private outflows were negative $101.4 billion, and net foreign official outflows were negative $5.4 billion.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in September; net purchases were $62.3 billion. Net purchases by private foreign investors were $77.6 billion, while net sales by foreign official institutions were $15.3 billion. U.S. residents increased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net purchases of $36.8 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, the net foreign purchases of long-term securities were $25.5 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 $12.1 billion in September.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $26.2 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities decreased $28.2 billion. Banks’ own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents decreased by $90.7 billion.
Posted: November 18, 2013 Monday 09:00 AM