News release: “The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for October 2010. The next release, which will report on data for November 2010, is scheduled for January 18, 2011. Net foreign purchases of long-term securities were $27.6 billion.

• Net foreign purchases of long-term U.S. securities were $54.7 billion. Of this, net purchases by private foreign investors were $62.2 billion, and net purchases by foreign official institutions were negative $7.5 billion.
• U.S. residents purchased a net $27.1 billion of long-term foreign securities.