Foreign Demand for U.S. Treasury Securities during the Pandemic

Colin Weiss
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No 2022-01-28, FEDS Notes from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Abstract: Foreign investors hold a sizable amount of U.S. Treasury securities—$7.5 trillion or about 35 percent of the total outstanding—so net purchases by foreign investors receive significant attention from a variety of sources, including academic researchers, finance professionals, and journalists. During the pandemic, foreign demand for U.S. Treasury securities has received scrutiny for a variety of reasons, including the contribution of foreign investors to the massive selloff in March 2020 (Duffie, 2020; Vissing-Jorgensen, forthcoming) and the ability of foreign investors to absorb additional Treasury securities as the Federal Reserve prepares to taper its asset purchases (Duguid and Rennison, 2021).

Date: 2022-01-28
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DOI: 10.17016/2380-7172.3046

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