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1. Major Foreign Holders of U.S. Treasury Securities. Also csv file. Includes new data from the annual surveys.
   1. Additional  historical data. Also csv file.
   2. Treasury bills and certificates held by foreigners are in the  banking liabilities data (column 9).
   3. Description of  methodology.
   4. Comparison with  Federal Reserve data on official holdings (FAQ #10.a).


2. Press release -  Historical data (csv).
   1. Press Releases of TIC monthly data.
   2. FAQs on lines in the press release data table.
   3. Archives of previous TIC data releases.


3. Net Foreign Purchases of U.S. long-term securities by major foreign sector:
   1. U.S. Treasury Bonds & Notes;
   2. U.S. Gov't Corp. & Federally-sponsored Agency Bonds.
      -- Comparison with  Federal Reserve data on official holdings (FAQ #10.b);
   3. U.S. Corporate & Other Bonds;
   4. U.S. Stocks.


4. Other Acquisitions of U.S. Long-term Securities:
   1. REVISED (4-29-2011) Estimates by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York of unrecorded principal repayments to foreigners on domestic corporate and agency asset-backed securities (ABS)
   2. Estimated foreign portfolio acquisitions of U.S. stocks through  stock swaps.
   3. Holdings of  nonmarketable Treasury bonds and notes issued to official institutions and other residents of foreign countries. Also in  csv format.

 

1. Net Purchases of  Foreign Long-term Securities, by type of foreign security



2. Estimated U.S. portfolio acquisitions of foreign stocks through  stock swaps.

• Quarterly Analysis and Charts  (PDF)

 

1.  Understanding U.S. Cross-Border Securities Data  (PDF). This article is recommended reading for all users of the various TIC data related to cross-border securities. It is from the Federal Reserve Bulletin, 2006, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
-- The previous article (2004) was  Recent Developments in Cross-Border Investment in Securities  (PDF). The appendix compares U.S. and foreign measurement of holdings of U.S. securities. It is from the Federal Reserve Bulletin, Winter 2004, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
-- The first in this recent series of articles (2001) was  The U.S. System for Measuring Cross-Border Investment in Securities (PDF). The appendix discusses how to use the monthly transactions data and the annual survey data to construct ongoing estimates of cross-border holdings of securities. It is from the Federal Reserve Bulletin, October 2001, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.