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Report on Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities at End-June 2019

Washington - The final results from the annual survey of foreign portfolio holdings of U.S. securities at the end of June 2019 were released today on the Treasury website at https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Pages/shlreports.aspx. 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 survey will cover holdings at the end of June 2020; preliminary data are expected to be released by February 26, 2021.

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 2019, are currently being processed. Preliminary results are expected to be reported by August 31, 2020.

The survey measured the value of foreign portfolio holdings of U.S. securities as of end-June 2019 to be $20,534 billion, with $8,630 billion held in U.S. equities, $10,991 billion in U.S. long-term debt securities [/1] (of which $1,417 billion are holdings of asset-backed securities (ABS) [/2] and $9,575 billion are holdings of non-ABS securities), and $913 billion held in U.S. short-term debt securities. The previous survey, conducted as of end-June 2018, measured the value of total foreign holdings of U.S. securities at $19,400 billion, with holdings of $8,139 billion in U.S. equities, $10,282 billion in U.S. long-term debt securities, and $980 billion in U.S. short-term debt securities (see Table A).

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[/1] Long-term debt securities have an original term-to-maturity of over one year.

[/2] Asset-backed securities are backed by pools of assets, such as pools of residential home mortgages or credit card receivables, which give the security owners claims against the cash flows generated by the underlying assets. Unlike most other debt securities, these securities generally repay both principal and interest on a regular basis, reducing the principal outstanding with each payment cycle.

 

 

Table A.  Foreign portfolio holdings of U.S. securities,

by type of security, as of selected survey dates

(Billions of dollars)
 

June 29, 2018

June 28, 2019

Long-term securities

18,421

19,622

Equities

8,139

8,630

Long-term debt

10,282

10,991

Asset-backed

1,317

1,417

Other

8,965

9,575

Short-term debt securities

980

913

Total

19,400

20,534

Of which: Official

5,794

6,112

 

 

Table B. Foreign portfolio holdings of U.S. securities, by country and type of security,
for the major investing countries into the United States, as of end-June 2019
(Billions of dollars)
Country or category Total Equities Long-term debt Short-term debt
        Treasury Agency Corporate
1 Japan 2,280 596 1,065 297 260 62
2 Cayman Islands 1,877 1,084 134 35 524 99
3 United Kingdom 1,776 1,002 286 8 422 58
4 Luxembourg 1,623 663 183 48 640 89
5 China, mainland [i] 1,543 189 1,109 227 14 4
6 Canada 1,262 956 99 6 184 16
7 Ireland 1,081 456 224 46 251 105
8 Switzerland 813 450 195 11 117 41
9 Belgium 780 58 175 6 515 27
10 Taiwan 626 68 172 266 117 4
11 Norway 452 309 98 * 45 1
12 Netherlands 421 284 46 14 73 3
13 Hong Kong 397 110 190 13 55 30
14 Germany 396 191 69 5 120 11
15 France 373 177 114 3 60 19
16 Korea, South 366 153 111 43 52 7
17 Singapore 363 180 133 5 33 12
18 Bermuda 349 111 49 29 134 26
19 Australia 344 262 33 4 36 8
20 Brazil 322 5 309 3 1 3
21 Saudi Arabia 289 93 130 6 14 46
22 Kuwait 287 197 38 7 21 25
23 Sweden 236 180 49 * 6 1
24 British Virgin Islands 178 112 27 2 23 14
25 India 168 4 161 * * 2
Other 1,930 739 705 63 226 197
Total 20,534 8,630 5,903 1,145 3,943 913
  Of which: Official 6,112 1,117 3,852 658 169 316

 

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