The US Treasury Department released data on the volume of investments of foreign countries in the American debt. The site is a table, which drew the attention due to the dynamics of Russian investments in the US total debt. If you believe the report of the American agency, then for only one April Russia "took off" this year, about half of US Treasury securities.
Statistics on Russian investments in US debt is as follows: in March 2018 year investment volumes were 96,1 billion, and fell in April to 48,7 billion.
It is the largest one-time waiver of the debt securities of the US in the world.
If you pay attention to the performance of other countries, holders of US debt, the top three remained unchanged, although the total also declined from the considerable volume of investments in US debt. Troika "leaders": China – 1,181 trillion dollars, Japan - 1,031 trillion dollars, Ireland - 300,4 billion. In April, the three states have refused from investments in US debt in the amount of 35,6 billion.
However, the overall layout is a little changed, since US debt more significant other decided to invest. So, Saudi Arabia is additionally invested about 8,7 billion, Germany - almost 10 billion, Brazil - about 8 billion (by the way, this country – fourth in the list of US debt holder - 294,1 billion.), Belgium - more 12 billion., Cayman islands - 15 billion.
Recall, that the level of Russian investments in US debt securities was last year more 100 billion.
