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Treasury International Capital Data for June 2018
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for June 2018. The sum total in June of all net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities, short-term U.S. securities, and banking flows was a net TIC inflow of $114.5 billion. Of this, net foreign private inflows were $142.4 billion, and net foreign official outflows were $27.9 billion.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in June; net sales were $45.5 billion. Net sales by private foreign investors were $43.5 billion, while net sales by foreign official institutions were $2.0 billion. U.S. residents decreased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net sales of $9.0 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, net foreign sales of long-term securities were $36.5 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 $51.4 billion in June.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $9.3 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities increased by $181.1 billion. Banks’ own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents decreased by $15.2 billion.
Posted: August 15, 2018 Wednesday 04:00 PM