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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

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To: mishedlo who wrote (23237)2/9/2005 1:48:44 PM
From: CalculatedRisk  Read Replies (3) of 116555
 
Pause in buying of treasuries? Maybe Japan slowed down, but the foreign purchases have continued ...

Treasuries held abroad (% of total):
Year end
2000 33.8%
2001 35.2%
2002 38.4%
2003 41.1%
2004 46.9%
SOURCE: stern.nyu.edu

Over the last 3 years, foreign purchases of treasuries has been 113% of all new treasuries issued! (They have bought all new securities and then some).
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