Japan and the UK increase their holdings, while China reduces its holdings of US bonds for the third consecutive month! Positions hit a 14 year low in June | USA | Japan | China
On August 15th local time, data released by the US Treasury Department showed that the holdings of the top three overseas creditors of US Treasury bonds in June varied: Japan and the UK increased their holdings, while China reduced their holdings.
According to the report on international capital flows in June of the US Treasury Department, Japan increased its holdings of US treasury bond bonds by US $8.8 billion in June, reaching US $1105.6 billion, making it the largest creditor of the US. Earlier, Japan had reduced its holdings of US $30.4 billion in treasury bond bonds in May, the first time since February.
In June, China reduced its holdings of US treasury bond by US $11.3 billion to US $835.4 billion, reducing its positions for the third consecutive month. The previous low position size was US $801.5 billion in May 2009. As the second largest overseas creditor of US treasury bond bonds, China's US bond position has been less than US $1 trillion since last April, and has reduced its US treasury bond holdings for seven consecutive months from August last year to February this year. It increased its US bond holdings by US $20.3 billion in March this year, decreased its US bond holdings by US $400 million in April, and decreased its US bond holdings by US $22.2 billion in May.
The UK increased its holdings of US treasury bond bonds by US $11.9 billion to US $672.3 billion, ranking third.
Meanwhile, a report from the US Treasury Department shows that the total net inflow of long-term and short-term US securities and bank cash flows from overseas in June was $147.8 billion, reversing the net outflow of $167.6 billion in May. Among them, the net inflow of overseas private funds was $119.8 billion, and the net inflow of overseas official funds was $28 billion.
Meanwhile, the net inflow of funds into long-term securities in the United States in June was $244 billion, higher than the $59.7 billion in May. Among them, overseas private investors bought a net of $183.9 billion in securities, and overseas official institutions bought a net of $60.2 billion. After some adjustments, including the US stocks purchased through stock swaps by overseas investment portfolios, the overall net purchase of US long-term securities by overseas investors in June was $195.9 billion, higher than the $17.5 billion in May.