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WASHINGTON - Preliminary data from the June 2015 annual survey of foreign portfolio holdings of U.S. securities were released today on the Treasury website at https://home.treasury.gov/data/treasury-international-capital-tic-system-home-page/tic-forms-instructions/securities-c-annual-cross-us-border-portfolio-holdings. Final survey results, which will include additional detail as well as possible revisions to the preliminary data, will be reported on April 29, 2016. The survey was undertaken jointly by Treasury, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The next annual survey will cover holdings at the end of June 2016; preliminary data are expected to be released by February 28, 2017.
Complementary surveys measuring U.S. holdings of foreign securities are also carried out annually. Data from the most recent survey, reporting on securities held at year-end 2015, are currently being processed. Preliminary results are expected to be reported by August 31, 2016.
Overall Preliminary Results
The survey measured the value of foreign holdings of U.S. securities as of June 30, 2015, to be $17,125 billion, with $6,660 billion held in U.S. equities, $9,526 billion in U.S. long-term debt securities [1] (of which $1,155 billion are holdings of asset-backed securities (ABS) [2] and $8,371 billion are holdings of non-ABS securities), and $939 billion held in U.S. short-term debt securities. The previous survey, conducted as of June 30, 2014, measured the value of total foreign holdings of U.S. securities at $16,417 billion, with holdings of $6,356 billion in U.S. equities, $9,183 billion in U.S. long-term debt securities, and $878 billion in U.S. short-term debt securities (see Table A).
Type of security | June 30, 2014 | June 30, 2015 | ||
Long-term securities | 15,539 |
| 16,186 |
|
Equities |
| 6,356 |
| 6,660 |
Long-term debt |
| 9,183 |
| 9,526 |
Asset-backed |
| 1,064 |
| 1,155 |
Other |
| 8,119 |
| 8,371 |
Short-term debt securities | 878 |
| 939 |
|
Total | 16,417 |
| 17,125 |
|
Of which: Official | 5,682 |
| 5,891 |
|
Table B. Foreign holdings of U.S. securities, by country and type of security,
for the major investing countries into the U.S., as of June 30, 2015
(Billions of dollars)
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[i]. Excludes Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, which are reported separately.
[ii]. Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates.
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