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Treasury International Capital Data for April 2012
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for April 2012. The sum total in April of all net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities, short-term U.S. securities, and banking flows was a monthly net TIC outflow of $20.5 billion. Of this, net foreign private outflows were $23.7 billion, and net foreign official inflows were $3.2 billion.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in March – net purchases were $26.1 billion. Net purchases by private foreign investors were $15.4 billion, and net purchases by foreign official institutions were $10.7 billion. At the same time, U.S. residents increased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net purchases of $0.6 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, the net foreign purchases of long-term securities were $25.6 billion. After including adjustments, such as estimates of unrecorded principal payments to foreigners on U.S. asset-backed securities, the overall net foreign acquisition of long-term securities is estimated to have been $8.4 billion in March.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $16.2 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities decreased by $5.6 billion. Banks' own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents decreased by $23.3 billion.
Posted: June 15, 2012 Friday 09:00 AM