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3/19/2020 Report on U.S. Portfolio Holdings of Foreign Securities at End-Year | U.S. Department of the Treasury Report on U.S. Portfolio Holdings of Foreign Securities at EndYear October 31, 2018 Washington – The findings from the annual survey of U.S. portfolio holdings of foreign securities at year-end 2017 were released today and posted on the Treasury web site at https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Pages/fpis.aspx. The survey was undertaken jointly by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. A complementary survey measuring foreign holdings of U.S. securities is also conducted annually. Data from the most recent such survey, which reports on securities held at end-June 2018, are currently being processed. Preliminary results are expected to be reported on February 28, 2019. Overall Results This survey measured the value of U.S. portfolio holdings of foreign securities at year-end 2017 as approximately $12.4 trillion, with $9.1 trillion held in foreign equity, $2.8 trillion held in foreign long-term debt securities (original term-to-maturity in excess of one year), and $0.5 trillion held in foreign short-term debt securities. The previous such survey, conducted as of year-end 2016, measured U.S. holdings of approximately $9.9 trillion, with $7.1 trillion held in foreign equity, $2.4 trillion held in foreign long-term debt securities, and $0.3 trillion held in foreign short-term debt securities. The increase during 2017 occurred mainly in equity. U.S. portfolio holdings of foreign securities by country at the end of 2017 were the largest for the Cayman Islands ($1.77 trillion), followed by the United Kingdom ($1.47 trillion), Japan ($1.13 trillion), and Canada ($996 billion) (see Table 2). These four countries attracted 43 percent of total U.S. portfolio investment, versus 43 percent the previous year. The surveys are part of an internationally coordinated e ort under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to improve the measurement of portfolio asset holdings. Table 1. U.S. holdings of foreign securities, by type of security, as of survey dates [1] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm540 1/3 3/19/2020 Report on U.S. Portfolio Holdings of Foreign Securities at End-Year | U.S. Department of the Treasury (Billions of dollars) Type of Security Dec. 31, 2016 Dec. 31, 2017 Long-term Securities 9,583 11,953 Equity 7,146 9,118 Long-term debt 2,436 2,835 308 456 9,891 12,409 Short-term debt securities Total U.S. Portfolio Investment by Country Table 2. Market value of U.S. portfolio holdings of foreign securities, by country and type of security, for countries attracting the most U.S. investment, as of December 31, 2017 [1] (Billions of dollars) Country or category Total Total Long-term Short-term Cayman Islands 1,767 1,362 405 403 2 United Kingdom 1,473 1,091 382 336 46 Japan 1,132 902 230 123 107 Canada 996 512 484 381 102 France 605 442 163 134 29 Netherlands 538 345 193 185 8 Switzerland 506 477 29 26 2 Ireland 495 421 74 70 4 Germany 494 400 94 83 11 Australia 355 197 158 114 44 Bermuda 263 229 34 34 * Korea, South 263 242 21 20 1 India 194 181 14 13 1 Brazil 182 148 34 34 * Taiwan 178 178 * * 0 Sweden 172 107 65 43 23 Singapore 171 143 28 11 17 Hong Kong [2] 164 155 8 4 4 Mexico 163 67 96 94 2 China, mainland [2] 162 158 4 3 1 2,135 1,361 774 723 51 12,409 9,118 3,291 2,835 456 Rest of world Total * Debt Equity Greater than zero but less than $500 million. Items may not sum to totals due to rounding. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm540 2/3 3/19/2020 Report on U.S. Portfolio Holdings of Foreign Securities at End-Year | U.S. Department of the Treasury [1] The stock of foreign securities for December 31, 2017, reported in this survey may not, for a number of reasons, correspond to the stock of foreign securities on December 31, 2016, plus cumulative flows reported in Treasury’s transactions reporting system. An analysis of the relationship between the stock and flow data is available in Table 4 and the associated text of the “Report on U.S. Portfolio Holdings of Foreign Securities at end-year 2017.” [2] China, Hong Kong, and Macau are all reported separately. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm540 3/3
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