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The shift in foreign demand for U.S. Treasuries from official holders like China and Japan to domestic and private investors, and its impact on the market.
does own a sizeable, but not dominant, slice of financial assets — commonly reported around $8–$12 trillion in U.S. bonds and equities held by European investors and institutions — which represents a ...
’s marketable federal debt is predominantly held domestically—about 71% of market debt was held by Canadian investors in 2022–23, leaving roughly 29% in the hands of non‑resident (foreign) investors ....
— both official (central banks/governments) and private (banks, funds, pensions, households) — sit on a material share of foreign-held Treasuries, but exact splits are contested: total foreign holding...
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...
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...
Treasuries can be absorbed with limited price disruption if a combination of market intermediation, alternative buyer demand, central-bank backstops and structural policy tools kick in: primary dealer...
Foreign official demand for U.S. Treasuries — the purchases by central banks and other government entities — rose sharply through the 2000s and peaked around 2010, but since then the pattern has been ...