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Treasury International Capital Data for June 2016
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for June 2016. The sum total in June of all net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities, short-term U.S. securities, and banking flows was a monthly net TIC outflow of $202.8 billion. Of this, net foreign private outflows were $162.4 billion, and net foreign official outflows were $40.4 billion.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in June; net purchases were $7.6 billion. Net purchases by private foreign investors were $36.0 billion, while net sales by foreign official institutions were $28.4 billion. U.S. residents increased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net purchases of $11.2 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, net foreign sales of long-term securities were $3.6 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 $38.9 billion in June.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $7.4 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities increased by $10.5 billion. Banks’ own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents decreased by $174.4 billion.
Posted: August 15, 2016 Monday 04:00 PM