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Strategies & Market Trends : Galapagos Islands
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To: Jorj X Mckie who started this subject7/17/2003 10:30:48 AM
From: zonder   of 57110
 
Interesting tidbit from today's Merrill Lynch Morning Market Memo:

As things already stand, our reliance on the good graces of foreign investors to hold onto U.S. debt securities (and at low interest rate levels relative to almost everywhere outside of Japan and Switzerland) is staggering. Japan now owns $429 bln of U.S. Treasury securities. China is next at $121 bln. In fact, of the $1.3 trillion of U.S. Government debt sitting in the hands of international investors, roughly $700 bln, or just over half, is concentrated in Asia. We note that in the past 3 months, foreign central bank buying of Treasuries has totaled around $40 bln, but that support is starting to wane somewhat based on the last couple of data points—and MoF data show that Japanese investors were net SELLERS of foreign bonds to the tune of $11.1 bln over the week to July 11th.
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