Who Owns the Most U.S. Treasury Debt?
These Treasury securities, oftencalled “debt held internally,” represent assets that belong to thebeneficiaries of those funds. They’re a true debt of the US, and they don’t goaway –“it doesn’t count because we owe this to ourselves,” the silly line goes– just becauseAmericanbenefi...
The Federal Reserve is another big player in the US Treasury market. The central bank holds about $2.39 trillion on federal debt, much of it purchased over the last decade through its QE programs. But the Fed isn’t buying right now either. Its Treasury holdings fell by $70 billion from ...
The Treasury breaks down who holds how much of the public debt in a quarterly Treasury bulletin. Foreign and international investors held over $7.4 trillion, according to its December 2022 bulletin, which included data through June 2022. State and local governments held $1.55 trillion and mutual ...
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In her recent trip to China, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen repeatedly blasted Beijing's industrial "overcapacity" for threatening the global economy. But her accusation deliberately ignored the most basic laws of market economy: On the supply side, it is innovation, cost-efficient manufactur...
The US has been selling a whole lot of debt lately. The Treasury Department expects to sell $962bn in Treasuries in the first half of this year, according to thelatest quarterly borrowing estimates. That’s not unusual, at least by recent standards, as first-half issuancetotalled $1.3tn ...
The creation of Redbridge Debt & Treasury Advisory sealed the union of the finance & treasury advisory teams of bfinance DTA, established in Paris in 1999, with the US banking relations management specialists of The Montauk Group. Our company is wholly owned by its founders and employees. This...
The composition of the AGG index is designed to represent thefull range of investment-grade bondstraded in the U.S. It's composed of more than 10,000 issues. U.S. Treasurys represent almost 40% of the index. The remaining components represent the debt of major industries, including real ...
However, UBS believes that in the long run, the correlation between gold, actual interest rates, and the US dollar still holds. The US real interest rate still represents the opportunity cost of holding gold, and the US dollar is the main currency for gold pricing, so the “derailment” be...