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Treasury International Capital Data for February 2021
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for February 2021. The sum total in February of all net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities, short-term U.S. securities, and banking flows was a net TIC inflow of $72.6 billion. Of this, net foreign private inflows were $60.9 billion, and net foreign official inflows were $11.8 billion.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in February; net sales were $7.3 billion. Net sales by private foreign investors were $15.3 billion, while net purchases by foreign official institutions were $7.9 billion. U.S. residents decreased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net sales of $11.5 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, net foreign purchases of long-term securities were $4.2 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 $38.0 billion in February.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $20.7 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities increased by $13.5 billion. Banks’ own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents increased by $97.1 billion.
Posted: April 15, 2021 Thursday 04:00 PM