WASHINGTON – U.S. residents have increased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, according to new data released by Treasury.
Treasury has released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for January 2024.
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 $8.8 billion. Of this, net foreign private outflows were $26.9 billion, and net foreign official inflows were $18.1 billion, the data show.
Key Findings
In addition, Treasury said:
- Foreign residents increased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in January; their net purchases were $79.8 billion. Net purchases by private foreign investors were $75.6 billion, while net purchases by foreign official institutions were $4.2 billion
- U.S. residents increased their holdings of long-term foreign securities, with net purchases of $43.7 billion.
- After including adjustments, such as estimated foreign portfolio acquisitions of U.S. stocks through stock swaps, overall net foreign purchases of long-term securities are estimated to have been $36.1 billion in January, Treasury said.
- Foreign residents decreased their holdings of U.S. Treasury bills by $27.8 billion. Foreign resident holdings of all dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities and other custody liabilities decreased by $32.0 billion.
- Banks’ own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents decreased by $12.8 billion.
Treasury said the next TIC release, which will report on data for February 2024, is scheduled for April 17.
Complete data are available on the Treasury website here.
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