Foreign Purchases and Sales of U.S. Securities, by Type of Security and Selected Country statistics

[In billions of dollars (15.8 represents $15,800,000,000). Covers transactions in all types of long-term domestic securities by foreigners as reported by banks, brokers, and other entities in the United States (except nonmarketable U.S. Treasury notes, foreign series; and nonmarketable U.S. Treasury bonds and notes, foreign currency series). Data cover new issues of securities, transactions in outstanding issues, and redemptions of securities. Includes transactions executed in the United States for the account of foreigners, and transactions executed abroad for the account of reporting institutions and their domestic customers. Data by country show the country of domicile of the foreign buyers and sellers of the securities; in the case of outstanding issues, this may differ from the country of the original issuer. The term "foreigner" covers all institutions and individuals domiciled outside the United States, including U.S. citizens domiciled abroad, and the foreign branches, subsidiaries and other affiliates abroad of U.S. banks and businesses; the central governments, central banks, and other official institutions of foreign countries; and international and regional organizations. "Foreigner" also includes persons in the United States to the extent that they are known by reporting institutions to be acting on behalf of foreigners. Minus sign (-) indicates net sales by foreigners or a net outflow of capital from the United States]


			NET PURCHASES				TOTAL TRANSACTIONS ⁴
						-
YEAR			U.S.					U.S.
AND	Total	Treasury	Govt.	Corporate	Corporate	Total	Treasury	Govt.	Corporate	Corporate
COUNTRY		bonds	corpora-	bonds ³	stocks		bonds	corpora-	bonds ³	stocks
		and	tions ²				and	tions ²
		notes¹	bonds				notes¹	bonds

1980	15.8	4.9	2.6	2.9	5.4	198	97	17	9	75
1983	11.7	5.4	(-Z)	0.9	5.4	435	254	28	19	134
1984	31.4	21.5	1.2	11.7	-3.0	640	451	33	33	123
1985	78.3	29.2	4.3	39.8	4.9	1,256	968	46	84	159
1986	88.8	19.4	7.0	43.7	18.7	2,623	2,149	67	129	278
1987	69.4	25.6	5.0	22.5	16.3	3,315	2,649	81	104	482
1988	74.8	48.8	6.7	21.2	-2.0	3,581	3,072	56	89	364
1989	96.5	54.2	15.1	17.3	9.9	4,767	4,140	88	121	418
1990	18.7	17.9	6.3	9.7	-15.1	4,204	3,620	104	117	362
1991	58.1	19.9	10.2	16.9	11.1	4,706	4,016	124	155	411
1992	73.2	39.3	18.3	20.8	-5.1	5,282	4,444	204	187	448
1993	111.1	23.6	35.4	30.6	21.6	6,314	5,195	263	239	618
1994	140.4	78.8	21.7	38.0	1.9	6,562	5,343	297	222	699
1995	231.9	134.1	28.7	57.9	11.2	7,243	5,828	222	278	915
1996	370.2	232.2	41.7	83.7	12.5	8,965	7,134	241	422	1,169
1997	388.0	184.2	49.9	84.4	69.6	12,759	9,546	469	617	2,126
1998	277.8	49.0	56.8	121.9	50.0	14,989	10,259	992	641	3,097

1999, total ⁵	351.7	-10.0	94.2	159.9	107.5	12,618	8,586	882	577	2,574
United Kingdom	128.4	-20.2	14.0	91.7	42.9	5,442	4,083	174	317	867
British West Indies	20.9	-7.0	10.5	9.1	8.2	1,732	411	283	49	989
Bermuda	30.9	4.0	13.2	15.2	-1.5	1,223	399	73	48	704
Japan	43.4	20.1	11.6	5.9	5.7	867	587	77	17	186
France	2.4	-3.3	0.3	1.6	3.8	789	465	3	7	314
Canada	13.1	7.3	2.4	3.6	-0.3	670	469	10	21	169
Netherlands Antilles	-11.9	-9.5	0.4	0.8	-3.5	564	259	13	11	282
Ireland	3.0	-3.0	0.8	3.0	2.1	315	237	19	10	50
Switzerland	8.4	-1.8	0.7	3.9	5.7	301	73	10	8	210
Germany	23.4	2.3	2.9	4.8	13.4	271	131	8	11	121
Singapore	-8.3	-12.5	1.5	3.6	-0.9	227	167	13	8	39
Italy	11.7	2.8	0.5	0.5	8.0	220	128	5	2	85
Bahamas	3.1	0.6	1.5	1.0	0.0	204	85	36	14	69
Netherlands	12.7	2.1	2.4	0.1	8.1	192	92	14	3	83
Belgium-Luxembourg	12.8	-0.1	1.4	4.4	7.1	164	53	11	17	84
Hong Kong	6.7	0.9	5.3	0.6	-0.2	149	91	28	2	27

1 Marketable bonds and notes.
2 Includes federally-sponsored agencies.
3 Includes transactions in directly placed issues abroad by U.S. corporations and issues of states and municipalities.
4 Total purchases plus total sales.
5 Includes other countries, not shown separately.

Source: U.S. Dept. of Treasury, Treasury Bulletin, quarterly.

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These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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