WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for October 2011. The next release, which will report on data for November 2011, is scheduled for January 18, 2012.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in October — net purchases were $2.6 billion. Net purchases by private foreign investors were $10.1 billion, and net sales by foreign official institutions were $7.5 billion.
At the same time, U.S. residents decreased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net sales of $2.2 billion.
Taking into account transactions in both foreign and U.S. securities, the net foreign purchases of long-term securities were $4.8 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 $13.4 billion in October.
Foreigners decreased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $11.5 billion. Foreign holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities decreased by $41.0 billion.
Banks’ own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents increased by $0.7 billion of $48.8 billion. Of this, net foreign private outflows were $7.0 billion, and net foreign official outflows were $41.9 billion.
Complete data are available here.
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