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Chinese Treasury Dump Brings Its Total Holdings To One Year Low, As "UK" Continues Exponential Accumulation Of US Bonds
We are a rather surprised that this morning's stunning Treasury International Capital report has not gotten far more prominent attention. The reason: in it we read that in May 2010, China dumped $33 billion in Treasuries, bringing its total to the lowest since June 2009. Furthermore, Japan also offloaded $8.8 billion in bonds, as did the Oil Exporters. Yet total foreign Treasury holdings increased from $3,957 billion to $3,964 billion almost exclusively as a result of ongoing exponential UK accumulation. It is time someone in the mainstream media asked just who is doing all this "UK-based" buying? It is not hedge funds, which operate out of Caribbean Banking Centers, and which saw an increase in holdings from $151.8 billion to $165.5 billion as risk went completely off in the month of May courtesy of the Flash Crash, Greece, and the general insolvency of Europe. It is also not China due to a diverging pattern in Bills accumulation versus disposition. Additionally, May saw a dramatic decline in total foreign purchases of total US assets, dropping from $110.3 billion to just $33 billion, with Corporate Bonds and Corporate Stocks seeing a rare monthly sell off ($9 billion and $432 million).
Below is a chart of total Long-Term securities purchased by foreigners monthly:
Notably, foreigners sold US Corporate Bonds for the first time since February 2009, after $432 million in bonds were sold:
So cutting to the chase, the key observations as always were in the holdings of the top 3 - China, Japan and the UK. As noted previously, China dumped $32.5 billion worth of bonds, which consisted exclusively of US Bills selling to the tune of $35.4 billion, even as the country bought a nominal $2.9 billion in Bonds.
The selloff has resulted in Chinese bond holdings dropping to the lowest since June 2009, and their Bill holdings, at just $7 billion, to the lowest ever!
But China was not alone: Japan also dumped USTs - a total of $8.8 billion, although unlike China, Japan sold $11.1 billion in Long Term Bonds even as it bought $2.4 billion in Bills.
Yet in what is (and continues to be) the most perverse observation, that proceeds without any questions from the mainstream media, the otherwise broke UK, once "bought: a stunning amount of Bonds, or just over $28 billion in the month of May, consisting of $27 billion in Bonds, and $1.3 billion in Bills. The "UK" accumulation patterns continues growing in an exponential pattern, and the country which owned "just" $180 billion in USTs in December, has doubled its holdings to $350 billion in less than half a year.
And here is the most imporbably chart we have seen in a long time:
This is not hedge fund accumulation, as Caribbean Banking Centers, traditionally the locus of HF accumulation saw a $14 billion increase in May, and if it is China, as is widely rumored, why was there an increase in Bill holdings? This is increasingly appearing as shadow Fed debt monetization operation, operating out of the United Kingdom. Hopefully someone with far more executive level access (NYT?) than us, will dare to challenge the status quo, and facilitate their credibility and book sales, by asking the right people the right questions to explain this confounding observation...
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never tickle a sleeping dragon - harry potter
Difenitely an imporbably cahrt.
Timmah !!!
Actually the expression is:
"Never pee on your central banker's leg and tell him you're watering his flowers."
Yes NYT, pull your finger out for once
"Hopefully someone with far more executive level access (NYT?) than us, will dare to challenge the status quo"
I think the NYT has groveled its way into the status quo. They're pretty shameless at framing agendas and averting eyes from stories that don't it the agenda these days....
You don't suppose something fishy could be going on, do ya? The big banks wouldn't be trying to manipulate the world's capital markets. That would be unethical.
The UK has long been suspected (by me at the least) of being a proxy for the fed.
Airstrip one is populated with our proletariat slaves.
Dead on - you buy my debt and I'll buy yours, that way, we'll both have money
The "special relationship"?
Liquidating some missing gold?
Rothchild's BOE of course
thats what i was thinking...
Brick Top: It'll get you in a lot of trouble thinking, Errol. If I were you, I wouldn't do too much of it.
Wow dude; I did not know this was 1875. Thanks for that.
Apparently the omnipotence of the Rothschild's knows no border. Say; did the Rothschild's spy network deliver Dow opening #s to Nathaniel before the FTSE Transatlantic mail ship could deliver it to other London Traders.
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Huh, what's going on? Oh, I see. Where's my pitch fork?!
Don't you remember that we have a "special relationship" with Great Britain? Obama hasn't given Cameron any DVD's yet!
Ah, so that is where Tony B'Liar and Gordon 'snotgoblin' Brownstuff hid all our money.
We'll send a little man round to collect it later. Thank's old chap.
UK as in Baldy Ben. Closing in on a tipping point as more folks catch on?
If the UK suspects their currency is going to dive faster than the dollar, wouldnt it make sense to buy the bonds? I mean its not like they are hard to find with so many being issued by the US of A.
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It seems the smarter Chinese rats are leaving the dumber (or at least fat and happy) American rats behind. I've always been amazed when people would spout such nonsense about China being forced to purchase US Treasuries for as long as they wish to be a part of the global economy. How it's in their best interest to buy our crap US bonds.
China will always do what's in their best interest. If that coincides with America, great. If not, they won't. China learned during the so called Gun Boat diplomacy era that they never ever again wish to be in a situation where their best interest is determined by being on the wrong end of the barrel of a gun.
I have also had to laugh at the China bashing and "...they need us...".
I had also stated over the past several years that China was accumulating a vast hoard of gold, which was proved to be correct.
I have also stated that China learned a lesson from the U.S. Gold Swaps (read Fort Knox). I posit that they have taken this and applied it to their U.S. Treasury holdings by SWAPPING treasuries for commodities, mines, etc...things priced in U.S. Dollars.
Whatever few unencumbered remaining U.S. Dollar Denominated Assets are held, the losses of a declining dollar will be offset by the rise in gold.
We think alike.
Let's see they're accumulating lots of gold and just about every other hard resource in the world, building lots of oil alternative energy and water systems, they actually manufacture things and are not swimming in debt up to their nostrils but yeah they need us cause we have Leonardo DiCaprio
If they take Leonardo, I'm going Chinese in a heart beat. They can take my dollars, my hard asset oil/gas/lumber etc resources, my PM's, even my wife. But if they take Leonardo, I'm renouncing my US citizenship, finding me a Chinese concubine and moving to China. :>)
Say it ain't so Leonardo, say it ain't so.
"I buy yours, you buy mine"
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You buy mine and I promise to buy yours later.
This is clearly stealth quantitative easing, just as the Carribbean banking centers purchases are. There just is not that much cash out there looking for low yield returns.
Man, you guys are so lucky that we in the UK continue to fund your country like this. Now, about that BP business...
Of course it suits us too as there's so much excess money lying about over here that the banks have stopped putting pre-approved credit card applications through our doors, and are now just stuffing cash through the letterbox every day.
I don't know who's buying Treasuries out of London, but I can only imagine it's the Fed acting through intermediaries.
Man, you guys are so lucky that we in the UK continue to fund your country like this. Now, about that BP business...
Yeah, let's talk about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96R05OsJHJ4
Folks,
ECRI just hit -9.8% minutes ago.
It's a hair's breadth from calling a new recession!
Yay
I wonder if Bernanke has picked up an english accent yet?
yeah but cnbc is celebrating "obama wins"
. . . just who is doing all this "UK-based" buying?
Albania.
What do we know about them?
Nothing. They're stand-offish . . .
I just hope this doesn't jeopardize the B-3 bomber program.
I'd consider it a hedge against currency devaluation in light of what is going on. BUT, that is simply too big a play. Like going "all in." So, if it walks like duck, talks like a duck...
One can visualize ARS asking "the right people the right questions, as soon as he finishes swallowing.
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So that's why HAINES 'n HOBBS are wearing their Country-Ties this morning to CNBC in an all out inexorable display of "UNITED STATES WE STAND UNITED KINGDOM WE FALL"
"This is increasingly appearing as shadow Fed debt monetization operation, operating out of the United Kingdom."
Yup.
An old Greedspasm trick.
is there a bastille anywhere in the DC area?
i feel like a little stormin'.
Getttt yer pitchforks here! I got pitchforks who whats 'em! (and BTW what do you have in barter?)
"We are a rather surprised that this morning's stunning Treasury International Capital report has not gotten far more prominent attention"
that was sarcasm, right?
It seems the world is schrinking fast to the size of USA+UK.
In pretending all is still business as usual we could re-introduce the concept of the earth being flat and, that there is an edge beyond the strait of Gibraltar... no, let's say beyond the southernmost end of the channel, which shall not be surpassed lest you fall in the void for ethernity.
I would also burn on a pyre all those pretending that that mysterious hole opening in the earth close to the white cliffs is a door to a vast continent beyond the foggy sea where people speak a curios language called french: just close this opening by a giant stone and draw a pentacle in the soil in front of it and fill all the area with spell and courses against those who will dare re-opening the passage...
They're all wogs east of Calais. Old English saying.
I realize the amount pales in comparison to China/Japan/UK/etc. but I found it interesting that Egypt has more than doubled it's holdings from July 2009 from $12.7B to $28B, up from $21.1B in just the prior month. It's also nearly triple from June 2009 level at $11.5B according to the "New Series."
France has also more than doubled from July 2009, from $17.5B to $36.4B
The biggest change I see though (other than what has been mentioned already), is Canada. It's up 3.5x since july 2009 from $24.1B to $85B, and 3.7x from June 2009 which was at $23B. I'm not entirely clear what the difference between the new series and old series is, but it has more than quadupled (4.62x) since June 2009 according to the old series figure.
Brian Sack of FRBNY was in the Cayman Island for an R&R, and decided to open a trading outpost there.
UK is the puppet of the US. Remember Blair and IRAQ, Brown and gold. UK has been bankrupt a long time ago.
WOW ... look at those UST rates today ...
5-Year Treasury 1.68 -0.061 -3.50%10-Year Treasury
2.93 -0.048 -1.61%30-Year Treasury
3.952 -0.016 -0.40%Special price for UK friends?
One must love the U.S. very much to buy T-bonds at those rates (or being made an offer one could'nt possibly refuse...)
I wonder how the greek bonds would sell if they too were in the position to make some Soprano's-economics...
Yadda, yadda, yadda. Anyone took a look at the government bondy rally in May ? Anyone recalling the "flash crash" ? Ergo : the Chinese got rid off some inventory. They will be back in June. I promise...:=)
How much of this debt is held by US citizens?
I would like the rest of the world to quit buying this debt, enabling our leaders to spend like the drunken Congressmen they are.
Sell it directly to the American people, like war bonds were sold. And if we are not buying, then it will be a clear sign that we do not want it!
Or that they haven't got any money. Do you remember the motto "We owe it to ourselves" as in "What's the difference how big the national debt gets, we owe it to ourselves." That rationalization ceased to be operational fifty years ago.
From what I gather:
Technically we are the biggest holders of our own debt.
By that, I mean, the Federal Reserve holds roughly 5 trillion dollars of US Treasury and debt instruments. The next biggest one is China and so on.
I don't get this. How does an increase in ST holding proves that it's not China? Isn't it in China's interest that their UST position is not transparent to other market players?
I'm not saying China did not dump UST last month. In fact, given the recent change in the currency regime, I positively expect them to switch some reserve to Yen and Euro. It's just that there's no proof that UK's holdings is not China's by proxy.
"Chinese Treasury Dump Brings Its Total Holdings To One Year Low, As "UK" Continues Exponential Accumulation Of US Bonds"
Curious, anybody have any ideas as to what they could dumping them in exchange for?
I've got a couple, but they seem a bit too obvious...
Regards
What if they are not selling so much as not buying? A couple of years ago they stopped buying the 30 year, then the 20, then the 10. By the beginning of this year they were only buying 3 month and 6 month.
Meanwhile as the old bonds fall due they can cash them in without causing a panic.
In this way they hope to collect as much as they can before the whole thing blows up.
Meanwhile instead of buying securities they are spending their US dollars on gold, Canadian oil resources, African farm land, mines around the world and other inflation proof assets.
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We have to understand how the Chinese operate. They are true longterm thinkers unlike us over here in instant gratification land. Let the bonds rollover, nothing to see here move along as we buy up things that will be worth something after Obama's done helping us down a couple of financial flights of stairs head first in the name of redistribution.
Tradeoff, treat BP with kid gloves and the kindness is reciprocated?
Amazing Tyler. This spells disaster after the deflationary period. Because after the world liquidates private debt, the US treasury market must collapse and usher in the end of western civilisation as we know it. Revelation 6:6
I think too much attention is given to the top 3 big holders.
For instance between Taiwan , Luxembourg and Ireland there was $250.5 million of Treasuries in their jurisdictions this May - and speaking from a Irish perspective this state had absolutely no say in the volume and direction of these securities.
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Tell me is Hellas Planitia a good place to get away from it all - this rape and pillage is good fun and all but it can become tiresome after the first 10 Trillion.
The DOW/SP00 leg down has started.
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No shit.
We can't poop anymore!? That is going to be bad. Almost as bad as this monetary revolution business.
Seems like that the U.K. and the U.S. are the Crazy Siamese Twin and that the war of the U.S. against Iran (if) will not be parried by the Chinese on the fysical battlefield but the financial.
Can't you guys recognize a game of 3 Card Monte?
"The selloff has resulted in Chinese bond holdings dropping to the lowest since June 2009, and their Bill holdings, at just $7 billion, to the lowest ever!"
The chart shows very clearly a continuing INCREASING trend in bonds?
Only amount of bills has dropped.
So, belief in long term interest rates over short. Deflationary expectation.
Seems like that the U.K. and the U.S. are the Crazy Siamese Twin and that the war of the U.S. against Iran (if) will not be parried by the Chinese on the fysical battlefield but the financial.70-649 \ 642-384 \ 642-974 \ 640-863 \ 642-436
Man, you guys are so lucky that we in the UK continue to fund your country like this. Now, about that BP business...
Of course it suits us too as there's so much excess money lying about over here that the banks have stopped putting pre-approved credit card applications through our doors, and are now just stuffing cash through the letterbox every day.
I don't know who's buying Treasuries out of London, but I can only imagine it's the Fed acting through intermediaries.
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