Treasury International Capital System

Statistics

• -- -- Summary of data on securities -- --
• Transactions in long-term securities:
1. Country data (on webpage "securities(2)") cover both U.S. & foreign securities.
2. Other data are below on U.S. securities , on foreign securities , and news.
• Holdings of long- & short-term securities:
  1. Annual Data (on webpage "securities(3)") cover U.S. securities and foreign securities.
  2. Other data, including Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries are below.
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Transactions Data


1. Net Foreign Purchases of U.S. long-term securites by major foreign sector:
   1. U.S. Treasury Bonds & Notes;
   2. U.S. Gov't Corp. & Federally-sponsored Agency Bonds. Comparison with Federal Reserve data on official holdings (FAQ #10.b);
   3. U.S. Corporate & Other Bonds;
   4. U.S. Stocks.
   
   
2. Other Acquisitions of U.S. Long-term Securities:
   1. REVISED (4-30-2008) Estimated unrecorded principal repayments to foreigners on domestic corporate and agency
   2. Estimated foreign portfolio acquisitions of U.S. stocks through .
   3. Holdings of nonmarketable Treasury bonds and notes issued to official institutions and other residents of foreign countries. Also in csv format.
   
   
3. Foreign Purchases and Sales of long-term securities with U.S. residents. (domestic and foreign securities)
• Note: Quarterly data are in Section V of the "Capital Movements" tables in the Treasury Bulletin.

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Holdings Data


4. Major Foreign Holders of U.S. Treasury Securities. Data series include preliminary results from the survey of holdings at end-June 2006.
   1. Additional historical data.
   2. Treasury bills and certificates held by foreigners are included in the monthly Banking Liabilities to Foreigners data (column 9).
   3. Description of methodology (06May15).
   4. Comparison with Federal Reserve data on official holdings (FAQ #10.a).


5. Recent data on U.S. banking liabilities by type and holder; including aggregate data on U.S. Treasury bills, and other short-term negotiable securities including short-term agency securities and negotiable CDs (see last section of table).



6. Annual surveys of Foreign Holdings of U.S. Securities.

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1. Foreign Purchases and Sales of long-term securities with U.S. residents. (domestic and foreign securities).
• Note: Quarterly data are in Section V of the "Capital Movements" tables in the Treasury Bulletin.


2. Net Purchases of Foreign Long-term Securites, by type of foreign security



3. Estimated U.S. portfolio acquisitions of foreign stocks through .



4. Annual surveys of U.S. Holdings of Foreign Securities.

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• Press Releases of monthly Treasury International Capital Data. Historical data (csv) for each row in the most recent press release table. .



• Quarterly Analysis and Charts (PDF). To view or print the PDF content in this file, download the free Adobe® Acrobat® Reader®.
  Also, .

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1. Understanding U.S. Cross-Border Securities Data (PDF). This article is recommended reading for all users of the various TIC data related to cross-border securities. It is from the Federal Reserve Bulletin, 2006, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
-- The previous article (2004) was Recent Developments in Cross-Border Investment in Securities (PDF). The appendix compares U.S. and foreign measurement of holdings of U.S. securities. It is from the Federal Reserve Bulletin, Winter 2004, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
-- The first in this recent series of articles (2001) was The U.S. System for Measuring Cross-Border Investment in Securities (PDF). The appendix discusses how to use the monthly transactions data and the annual survey data to construct ongoing estimates of cross-border holdings of securities. It is from the Federal Reserve Bulletin, October 2001, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

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Last Updated: May 1, 2008