Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Latest figures on foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries

The U.S. Treasury statistics issued today list 29 foreign holders of their securities. Between them, the three above account for $110.3 billion of the $110.6 billion increase. What is is to have friends, I suppose.

3 comments:

  1. we must surely conclude Brown knew he was trashing Sterling

    as for the Chinese ... I have no solid theory

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  2. I don't know to what extent the UK and rathe more obviously the Caribbean are simply conduits for others.

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