Purchases and Sales by U.S. Investors of Foreign Bonds and Stocks, and by Selected Country, 1999 statistics

[In billions of dollars (3.1 represents $3,100,000,000). Covers transactions in all types of long-term foreign securities by foreigners as reported by banks, brokers, and other entities in the United States (except nonmarketable U.S. Treasury notes, foreign series; and nonmarketable U.S. Treasury bonds and notes, foreign currency series). Data cover new issues of securities, transactions in outstanding issues, and redemptions of securities. Includes transactions executed in the United States for the account of foreigners, and transactions executed abroad for the account of reporting institutions and their domestic customers. Data by country show the country of domicile of the foreign buyers and sellers of the securities; in the case of outstanding issues, this may differ from the country of the original issuer. The term "foreigner" covers all institutions and individuals domiciled outside the United States, including U.S. citizens domiciled abroad, and the foreign branches, subsidiaries and other affiliates abroad of U.S. banks and businesses; the central governments, central banks, and other official institutions of foreign countries; and international and regional organizations. "Foreigner" also includes persons in the United States to the extent that they are known by reporting institutions to be acting on behalf of foreigners. Minus sign (-) indicates net sales by U.S. investors or a net inflow of capital into the United States]


		NET PURCHASES		TOTAL TRANSACTIONS¹			BONDS		STOCKS
YEAR AND COUNTRY
	Total	Bonds	Stocks	Total	Bonds	Stocks	Purchases	Sales	Purchases	Sales

1980	3.1	1.0	2.1	53	35	18	18	17	10	8
1983	7.0	3.2	3.8	106	76	30	40	36	17	13
1984	5.0	3.9	1.1	147	116	31	60	56	16	15
1985	7.9	4.0	3.9	212	166	46	85	81	25	21
1986	5.5	3.7	1.9	438	338	100	171	167	51	49
1987	6.9	7.9	-1.1	596	406	190	207	199	94	95
1988	12.0	10.2	1.9	595	443	151	226	219	77	75
1989	18.6	5.5	13.1	708	475	233	240	235	123	110
1990	31.2	21.9	9.2	907	652	255	337	315	132	123
1991	46.8	14.8	32.0	949	675	273	345	330	153	121
1992	47.9	15.6	32.3	1,375	1,043	332	529	514	182	150
1993	143.1	80.4	62.7	2,126	1,572	554	826	746	308	245
1994	57.3	9.2	48.1	2,526	1,706	820	858	848	434	386
1995	98.7	48.4	50.3	2,569	1,827	741	938	890	396	346
1996	110.6	51.4	59.3	3,239	2,279	960	1,165	1,114	510	450
1997	89.1	48.1	40.9	4,505	2,952	1,553	1,500	1,452	797	756
1998	11.1	17.3	-6.2	4,527	2,674	1,853	1,346	1,328	923	930

1999, total ²	-10.0	5.7	-15.6	3,941	1,602	2,339	804	798	1,162	1,177
United Kingdom	-39.8	-1.3	-38.5	1,751	845	907	422	423	434	473
Japan	43.6	-2.5	46.1	406	50	356	24	26	201	155
Canada	1.0	0.1	0.9	253	155	98	78	78	49	48
Bermuda	1.0	1.2	-0.2	181	135	46	68	67	23	23
British West Indies	1.4	0.1	1.3	169	52	117	26	26	59	58
Germany	2.2	4.7	-2.4	113	22	91	13	9	44	47
Hong Kong	-4.2	-1.5	-2.8	98	11	87	5	6	42	45
Netherlands Antilles	-4.2	-0.2	-4.0	94	24	70	12	12	33	37
France	-1.0	0.4	-1.4	73	18	55	9	9	27	28
Switzerland	-4.2	-0.7	-3.5	72	8	64	4	4	30	34
Netherlands	-2.1	1.4	-3.5	69	15	54	8	7	25	29
Brazil	2.0	1.1	0.8	65	37	28	19	18	14	14
Australia	1.7	2.0	-0.2	62	23	39	13	11	19	20
Bahamas, The	0.3	1.3	-1.0	52	19	32	10	9	16	17
Italy	-5.5	-0.5	-5.1	48	6	42	3	3	19	24
Singapore	-0.5	-0.3	-0.1	48	16	32	8	8	16	16
Ireland	0.2	-1.2	1.4	41	23	18	11	12	10	8
Mexico	3.8	2.2	1.6	32	16	16	9	7	9	7
Argentina	-0.6	-0.3	-0.3	30	24	6	12	12	3	3

1 Total purchases plus total sales.
2 Includes other countries, not shown separately.

Source: U.S. Dept. of Treasury, Treasury Bulletin, quarterly.

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http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/829_purchases_and_sales_by_u_s.html

These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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