Russia decreased investment in US debt with 16% yoy

Noam Stiekema

Russia has reduced its investments in US debt securities (Government Securities) by 16% compared to an year earlier, according to the Treasury of the United States. The investments of Russia fell, according to the latest data available as of September 2014, to 117.7 billion USD from 140.5 billion USD an year earlier. The gradual process […]

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money US DebtRussia has reduced its investments in US debt securities (Government Securities) by 16% compared to an year earlier, according to the Treasury of the United States. The investments of Russia fell, according to the latest data available as of September 2014, to 117.7 billion USD from 140.5 billion USD an year earlier. The gradual process of reduction of Russian investments in US government securities in September 2014 began in May this year. The overall foreign portfolios of US Treasury bonds fell by 0.1% in September to 6.06 trillion USD. A month earlier, in August, the level was slightly higher – 6.07 trillion USD.

Currently, the largest buyer of US government bonds remains China, which holds an estimated securities with a nominal value of 1.27 trillion USD in total, followed by Japan with 1.22 trillion USD. Far behind them is Belgium with 353.9 billion USD. All three countries have reduced their investments on an annual basis as of September amounted to several billion USD.

Top 10 holders of securities of the United States also includes Brazil, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Luxembourg and Russia.

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