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Treasury International Capital Data for March 2017
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for March 2017. The sum total in March of all net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities, short-term U.S. securities, and banking flows was a monthly net TIC outflow of $0.7 billion. Of this, net foreign private inflows were $25.4 billion, and net foreign official outflows were $26.1 billion.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in March; net purchases were $30.8 billion. Net purchases by private foreign investors were $41.5 billion, while net sales by foreign official institutions were $10.7 billion. U.S. residents decreased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net sales of $29.0 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, net foreign purchases of long-term securities were $59.8 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 $45.7 billion in March.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $2.6 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities decreased by $21.0 billion. Banks' own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents decreased by $25.4 billion.
Posted: May 15, 2017 Monday 04:00 PM