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Treasury International Capital Data for July 2015
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for July 2015. The sum total in July of all net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities, short-term U.S. securities, and banking flows was a monthly net TIC inflow of $141.9 billion. Of this, net foreign private inflows were $164.2 billion, and net foreign official outflows were $22.4 billion.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in July; net purchases were $4.0 billion. Net purchases by private foreign investors were $21.5 billion, while net sales by foreign official institutions were $17.5 billion. U.S. residents decreased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net sales of $3.7 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, net foreign purchases of long-term securities were $7.7 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 $7.9 billion in July.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $6.9 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities decreased by $10.4 billion. Banks’ own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents increased by $160.2 billion.
Posted: September 16, 2015 Wednesday 03:00 PM