Tuesday, September 29, 2009

U.S. International Reserve Position


The Treasury Department today released U.S. reserve assets data for the latest week. As indicated in this table, U.S. reserve assets totaled $133,689 million as of the end of that week, compared to $127,008 million as of the end of the prior week.

Official reserve assets and other foreign currency assets (approximate market value, in US millions)

September 11, 2009

A. Official reserve assets (in US millions unless otherwise specified) 1

Euro

Yen

Total

(1) Foreign currency reserves (in convertible foreign currencies)

133,689

(a) Securities

10,329

14,388

24,716

of which: issuer headquartered in reporting country but located abroad

0

(b) total currency and deposits with:

(i) other national central banks, BIS and IMF

15,012

7,012

22,024

ii) banks headquartered in the reporting country

0

of which: located abroad

0

(iii) banks headquartered outside the reporting country

0

of which: located in the reporting country

0

(2) IMF reserve position 2

12,819

(3) SDRs 2

57,821

(4) gold (including gold deposits and, if appropriate, gold swapped) 3

11,041

--volume in millions of fine troy ounces

261.499

(5) other reserve assets (specify)

5,268

--financial derivatives

--loans to nonbank nonresidents

--other (foreign currency assets invested through reverse repurchase agreements)

5,268

B. Other foreign currency assets (specify)

--securities not included in official reserve assets

--deposits not included in official reserve assets

--loans not included in official reserve assets

--financial derivatives not included in official reserve assets

--gold not included in official reserve assets

--other



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