A TIC Look At Qualitative Contraction

By |2017-11-17T12:37:54-05:00November 17th, 2017|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

The latest update of the Treasury Department’s Treasury International Capital (TIC) estimates clarified a few things. To begin with, for the month of September the Chinese sold UST’s again for the first time in seven months. Between the end of January and the end of August, the Chinese had added $149.4 billion in UST holdings. In September, however, the balance [...]