Treasury International Capital Data for August

October 17, 2006

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FROM THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

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Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for August are released today and posted on the U.S. Treasury web site ( www.treas.gov/tic). The next release date, which will report on data for September, is scheduled for November 16, 2006.

Net foreign purchases of long-term securities were $116.8 billion.

Net foreign purchases of long-term domestic U.S. securities were $119.5 billion. Of this, net purchases by foreign official institutions were $30.1 billion and net purchases by private foreign investors were $89.4 billion.

U.S. residents purchased a net $2.7 billion in long-term foreign securities.

	Foreigners' Transactions in Long-Term Securities with U.S. Residents
	(Billions of dollars, not seasonally adjusted)
						12 Months Through
				2004	2005	Aug-05	Aug-06	May-06	Jun-06	Jul-06	Aug-06

1	Gross Purchases of Domestic Securities			15178.9	17177.4	16478.8	18603.5	1923.1	1667.4	1453.2	1682.0
2	Gross Sales of Domestic Securities			14262.4	16166.8	15548.4	17525.5	1835.6	1582.7	1398.7	1562.5
3	Domestic Securities Purchased, net (line 1 less line 2) /1			916.5	1010.6	930.3	1078.0	87.5	84.7	54.5	119.5

4		Private, net /2		680.9	890.5	778.3	930.6	89.1	82.4	31.8	89.4
5			Treasury Bonds & Notes, net	150.9	270.1	187.6	192.9	21.8	31.4	-1.7	29.0
6			Gov't Agency Bonds, net	205.7	187.8	202.9	208.5	26.1	18.5	6.6	21.5
7			Corporate Bonds, net	298.0	353.2	333.1	416.5	39.6	37.7	18.0	34.7
8			Equities, net	26.2	79.4	54.7	112.8	1.5	-5.1	8.8	4.2

9		Official, net		235.6	120.1	152.0	147.4	-1.6	2.3	22.7	30.1
10			Treasury Bonds & Notes, net	201.1	68.5	107.6	45.7	-13.6	-4.4	8.2	17.4
11			Gov't Agency Bonds, net	20.8	31.6	26.8	65.6	8.5	4.4	11.8	9.8
12			Corporate Bonds, net	11.5	19.0	16.6	25.4	2.4	1.1	1.0	2.8
13			Equities, net	2.2	1.0	1.0	10.8	1.2	1.2	1.6	0.2

14	Gross Purchases of Foreign Securities			3123.1	3700.0	3323.1	4812.1	539.3	447.0	365.4	408.0
15	Gross Sales of Foreign Securities			3276.0	3872.4	3507.7	4995.4	559.8	456.3	387.1	410.7
16	Foreign Securities Purchased, net (line 14 less line 15) /3			-152.8	-172.4	-184.6	-183.3	-20.5	-9.2	-21.7	-2.7

17		Foreign Bonds Purchased, net		-67.9	-45.1	-66.9	-94.2	-15.6	-10.3	-18.8	-9.9
18		Foreign Equities Purchased, net		-85.0	-127.3	-117.7	-89.0	-4.9	1.1	-2.9	7.1

19	Net Long-Term Flows (line 3 plus line 16)			763.6	838.2	745.8	894.7	67.0	75.5	32.9	116.8

/1	Net foreign purchases of U.S. securities (+)
/2	Includes international and regional organizations
/3	Net U.S. purchases of foreign securities (-)

REPORTS

(PDF) Foreigners’ Transactions in Long-Term Securities with U.S. Residents (Billions of dollars, not seasonally adjusted)