Treasury TIC Data for February ’12
April 17, 2012 at 07:43 AM EDT
The US Treasury released the February TIC data. It is worth pointing out the methodolgical change in the data construction in recent months. Previously, the Treasury used an annual survey of custodians, brokers, etc. to estimate foreign holdings of Treasuries and built on these estimates with monthly transactions data. This led to persistent “transactions bias” [...]