US DATA: October TICS data showed that net foreign purchases of
long-term U.S. securities were a paltry $27.6 bn as net foreign
purchases of $54.7 bn were offset by US resident purchases of $27.1 bn
of foreign securities. Within the foreign purchases of US securities,
private investors bought $62.2 bn of US securities while foreign
officials were net sellers of $7.5 bn of securities. Prior mth inflows
were revised down to $77.2 bn from $81.0 bn.
Monthly net TIC flows were $7.5 bn.
Tsys flows by country; China +$23.3 bn, Japan +$12.8 bn, UK +$18.6 bn,
OPEC -$7.6 bn, Carib -$11.0 bn, Russia +$3.1 bn, Canada +$8.5 bn, Lux
-$7.7 bn, Sing +$9.7 bn.
