- Prior revised to -$9.8bn
- Foreign Tbond buying $27.8bn vs -$10.8bn prior
- Overall net capital flows- $106.8bn vs $2.9bn prior. Revised to -$13.8bn
- Net flows inc swaps $12.1bn vs -$24.3bn prior. revised to -$25.1bn
Net cap outflows biggest since Feb 2009.
Stocks swaps and other long term securities rose slightly to -$13.3bn from -$15.3bn. Domestic securities net rose to $62.3bn from -$8.5% in August.
- China increased holding to 1293.8bn from 1268.1bn
- Japan 1178.1bn from 1149.1bn
The large numbers in flows are likely to have been brought on by the then upcoming government shutdown. We’ll have to see Octobers numbers to gauge how much was down to the shutdown. Case in point, of the domestic securities, Private were at 77.6bn from -3.7bn while Official were down 15.3bn from -4.8bn in Aug
