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Treasury International Capital Data for January 2018
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for January 2018. 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 $119.7 billion. Of this, net foreign private inflows were $88.7 billion, and net foreign official inflows were $30.9 billion.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in January; net purchases were $63.2 billion. Net purchases by private foreign investors were $62.3 billion, while net purchases by foreign official institutions were $0.9 billion. U.S. residents increased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net purchases of $1.1 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, net foreign purchases of long-term securities were $62.1 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 $57.0 billion in January.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $7.7 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities increased by $18.6 billion. Banks' own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents increased by $44.1 billion.
Posted: March 15, 2018 Thursday 04:00 PM