From: Jurriaan Bendien (adsl675281@TISCALI.NL)
Date: Sun Nov 18 2007 - 10:36:16 EST
(A blogger in China reports:)
Let talk a closer look at the World of buyers and sellers of US dollar denominated assets like US Treasuries. Below is the year- to -year net changes in foreign holdings of US Treasuries. These are the latest numbers available from the US Treasury (April numbers are not available yet). These numbers represent the net change for a year (from March 2006 to March 2007). Don't confuse these numbers with the existing foreign holdings of these countries.
- Countries with a negative number mean they are net sellers
- Countries with a positive number mean they are net buyers
- Total amount of net sales are -$116.8 led by UK, Japan, France, and Korea
- China is the largest net buyer at $101, which almost makes up for all the net sellers
- Very surprised that Luxemburg is such a large net buyer
Foreign Holdings Net Change (billions)
China 101
Brazil 39.2
Luxemburg 25
Caribbean 21.7
Oil Exports 14.9
India 8.9
Turkey 6.6
Netherlands 5.7
All Others 2.6
Switzerland 2
Israel 1.8
Germany 1
Thailand 0.4
Italy 0.3
Poland 0
Sweden -2.9
Canada -3.3
Singapore -3.5
Mexico -4.9
Belgium -4.9
Ireland -7.9
Korea -14.3
France -14.3
Japan -26.7
UK -34.1
From http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/viewthread.php?gid=2&tid=567843&extra=page%3D1@(
Existing foreign holdings of US securities 2005/2006 (in total about $7 trillion of longterm securities):
http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/hp437.htm
TIC data (time Tics away):
http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/hp611.htm
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