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Treasury International Capital Data for March 2013
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for March 2013. 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 inflow of $2.1 billion. Of this, net foreign private inflows were negative $34.8 billion, and net foreign official inflows were $36.9 billion.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in March – net purchases were $15.3 billion. Net purchases by private foreign investors were $9.7 billion, and net purchases by foreign official institutions were $5.6 billion. At the same time, U.S. residents increased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net purchases of $28.8 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, the net foreign purchases of long-term securities were negative $13.5 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 negative $31.9 billion in March.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $34.2 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities increased by $35.6 billion. Banks’ own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents decreased by $1.5 billion.
Posted: May 15, 2013 Wednesday 09:00 AM