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Treasury International Capital Data for January 2019
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for January 2019. The sum total in January of all net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities, short-term U.S. securities, and banking flows was a net TIC outflow of $143.7 billion. Of this, net foreign private outflows were $123.6 billion, and net foreign official outflows were $20.0 billion.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in January; net sales were $19.6 billion. Net sales by private foreign investors were $6.4 billion, while net sales by foreign official institutions were $13.1 billion. U.S. residents decreased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net sales of $12.3 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, net foreign sales of long-term securities were $7.2 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 $19.7 billion in January.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $12.5 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities decreased by $12.2 billion. Banks’ own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents decreased by $111.7 billion.
Posted: March 15, 2019 Friday 04:00 PM