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Treasury International Capital Data for December 2014
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for December 2014. The sum total in December of all net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities, short-term U.S. securities, and banking flows was a monthly net TIC outflow of $174.8 billion. Of this, net foreign private outflows were $143.7 billion, and net foreign official outflows were $31.1 billion.
Foreign residents decreased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in December; net sales were $5.8 billion. Net purchases by private foreign investors were $14.5 billion, while net sales by foreign official institutions were $20.3 billion. U.S. residents decreased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net sales of $41.2 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, net foreign purchases of long-term securities were $35.4 billion. After including adjustments, such as estimates of unrecorded principal payments to foreigners on U.S. asset-backed securities, overall net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities are estimated to have been $45.9 billion in December.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $24.8 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities increased by $10.1 billion. Banks' own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents decreased by $230.8 billion.
Posted: February 18, 2015 Wednesday 04:00 PM