{"id":4657,"date":"2009-08-18T12:15:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T16:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2016-09-20T04:56:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T08:56:36","slug":"foreign-treasuries-holders-is-china-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/foreign-treasuries-holders-is-china-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Treasuries Holders &#8211; Is China Selling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting report out yesterday on the foreign holders of U.S. Treasury securities. In the last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/16\/tdi-podcast-122-mish-how-long-can-this-rally-last\/\"><strong>TDI PODCAST<\/strong><\/a>, Mish and I spoke about the reasons why China needs to continue purchasing U.S. assets. In other words, the fear over China stopping purchases and\/or significantly reducing their holdings is unrealistic&#8230;. or is it?<\/p>\n<p>Below we see that while foreign holdings are rising over the past few months, China has been reducing their holdings this year. Perhaps <!--more-->they are simply reallocating their reserves or maybe they are just taking a short break. Then again, China may actually be thinking another game altogether. Possible?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(Click charts to enlarge)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/treasuryies11-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4655\" title=\"treasuryies11\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/treasuryies11-1.jpg\" alt=\"treasuryies11\" width=\"519\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/treasuryies2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4656 aligncenter\" title=\"treasuryies2\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/treasuryies2-1.jpg\" alt=\"treasuryies2\" width=\"544\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Disclosure: <a title=\"Horowitz &amp; Company\" href=\"http:\/\/www.horowitzandcompany.com\">Horowitz &amp; Company<\/a> clients may hold positions of securities mentioned as of the date published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting report out yesterday on the foreign holders of U.S. Treasury securities. In the last TDI PODCAST, Mish and I spoke about the reasons why China needs to continue purchasing U.S. assets. In other words, the fear over China stopping purchases and\/or significantly reducing their holdings is unrealistic&#8230;. or is it? Below we see that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[481,293],"class_list":["post-4657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-economy","tag-fixed-income","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}