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Foreign Central Banks Smash Weekly Treasuries Buy Record

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Anyone get the number of that truck? Foreign central banks were net buyers of agency debt for the third time in ten weeks,[1] adding a healthy $2.51 billion to their holdings. But in a record-shattering acquisition, they bought an astonishing $43.93 billion of treasuries. This news comes from FRBNY’s weekly statistical release H.4.1 […]

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Foreign Central Banks Gone Wild — Sovereign Debt Buying Spree

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Wowsers! Foreign central banks were net buyers of agency debt for the second time in ten weeks [1] as they added a whopping $5.616 billion to their holdings. Meanwhile they bought a jaw-dropping $17.374 billion of treasuries. This news comes from FRBNY’s weekly statistical release H.4.1 [2] and Doom has again added the […]

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Foreign Central Banks Finally Buy Agencies

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Foreign central banks were net buyers of agency debt for the first time in nine weeks [1] [2] as they added a healthy $3.557 billion to their holdings. Meanwhile they bought a whopping $9.951 billion of treasuries. This news comes from FRBNY’s weekly statistical release H.4.1 [3] and Doom has again added the […]

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Central Banks’ Agencies Selloff Decelerates in 8th Week

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

Earlier today Reuters reported [1] an eighth straight week of net sales of agency debt by foreign central banks. This week’s reduction was only $2.00 billion, down significantly from the previous week’s $9.75 billion. Reuters extracted the data from FRBNY’s weekly statistical release H.4.1 [2] and Doom has added the last week’s data […]

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Foreign Central Banks Accelerate Agencies Dump

Friday, September 5th, 2008

As reported [1] yesterday by Reuters, foreign central banks sold a net $9.75 billion of agency debt in the week ended September 3rd. Reuters extracted the data from FRBNY’s weekly statistical release H.4.1 [2] and Doom has added the last week’s data to our CSV file going back to early 2000.[3]
Last week Doom provided […]

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Foreign Central Banks and Agency Debt: 2000 to Present

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Yesterday Reuters reported [1] that foreign central banks have been net sellers of agency debt, the senior debt of GSEs like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for the sixth straight week. In order to get a better handle on the context for this story, Doom went to The NY Fed’s H.4.1 table [2] and extracted […]

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February 2008 National Existing Home Sales - 2001 till 2008

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

The National Association of Realtors released their numbers for February Existing Home Sales yesterday, but any correlation between the NAR’s analysis and the data is purely coincidental.  According to Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the NAR:
WASHINGTON, March 24, 2008 - Sales of existing homes increased in February and remain within a fairly stable range, according […]

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February National Existing Home Sales: Sales Off- So Is Yun’s Grip On Reality

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

The National Association of Realtors released their numbers for February Existing Home Sales yesterday, but any correlation between the NAR’s analysis and the data is purely coincidental.  According to Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the NAR:
WASHINGTON, March 24, 2008 - Sales of existing homes increased in February and remain within a fairly stable range, according […]

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