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The potential impact on dollar assets if countries stop buying US Treasuries
If other countries stopped buying U.S. Treasuries, Treasury prices would fall and yields would rise, forcing higher borrowing costs in the U.S. and abroad and risking financial-market dislocations; ho...
has reduced its holdings of Treasuries over the past decade and sold U.S. debt at various points, but the picture is nuanced: data show a steady decline from a 2013 peak and reports of consecutive mon...
A of Treasuries by foreign central banks would, all else equal, put upward pressure on U.S. Treasury yields and tend to weaken the dollar, but the magnitude and persistence of those moves would depend...
Central bank reserve allocations have shifted modestly in recent years toward diversification—more and selective additions of non‑dollar assets—while the dollar remains the dominant reserve currency, ...
now hold roughly $8.5–$9.1 trillion of marketable securities, equivalent to about 29–32% of debt held by the public, a share materially lower than the near‑50% levels of the early 2010s . If foreign d...