外國人減少持有的美國債務數額創紀錄

外國人減少持有的美國債務數額創紀錄
Foreigners Reduce Holdings of US Debt by Record Amount
February 16, 2010 11:50 AM
ABC's Matthew Jaffe reports from Washington:

Foreign owners of US government debt reduced their holdings by the largest monthly amount ever in December, with China offloading so many Treasury securities that it is no longer the largest foreign holder.
外國的美國政府債務擁所有者，在12月減少其持有至有史以來最大的月額，中國卸下那麼多國債使它不再是最大的外國持有者。
According to new data released Tuesday morning by the Treasury Department, foreign holdings of Treasury securities plunged by $53 billion in December, a record drop. China led the sell-off, reducing its holdings by $34 billion. Japan, meanwhile, increased its holdings by $11 billion to become the new largest foreign holder of Treasuries. As of the end of December, Japan held $768 billion of US government debt, followed by China at $755 billion, and then Great Britain at $302 billion, after increasing its holdings by $25 billion during the course of the month.
根據由財政部週二上午公佈的新數據，在12月外國持有的財政部証券下降了530億美元，一創紀錄的下降。中國帶頭拋售，降低其減持340億美元；與此同時，日本增持110億美元成為財政部新的最大外國持有者。截至12月底，日本握有7,680億美元的美國政府債務，其次中國為 7,550億美元，然後英國為3,020億美元，在一個月的過程中增加持有250億美元後。
In the last year there have been consistent concerns that China and other nations might reduce their holdings of US government debt as the US continues to rack up record deficits in the wake of the recession. If foreigners were to undertake a massive unloading of US Treasuries, the country could have to make higherinterest payments.

Earlier this month, Moody’s Investors Service cautioned that the US could be in danger of losing the triple-A rating for its Treasury bonds unless the nation’s deficit gets brought under control or the economy grows more than expected. However on February 7 Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told ABC’s Jake Tapper on “This Week” that “that will never happen to this country.”

“When people were most worried about the stability of the world, they still found safety in the Treasuries and the dollar,” Geithner said. “That is a very, very important sign of basic confidence in our capacity as a country to work together to fix these problems.”

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2010/02/foreigners-reduce-holdings-of-us-debt-by-record-amount-.html
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