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Foreign Holdings of U.S. Stocks
Market value of U.S. equities held by foreign residents, $ billions, monthly: all holders and foreign official institutions
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
U.S. Treasury International Capital data. Holdings are attributed to the country where the custodian or investor reporting them sits, so financial centres such as the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg and Ireland stand in for investors elsewhere. Market value: holdings rise and fall with U.S. share prices. Official institutions are split out only from 2020. Before 2020 the total comes from Treasury’s former Table 1D history.
How much of the U.S. stock market foreign investors own, month by month, and how much of it sits with central banks and sovereign funds.
What this chart reads
- Foreign Holdings of U.S. Equities, All Countries · USD bnas “All foreign holders”latest 2026-08-01
- Foreign Official Holdings of U.S. Equities · USD bnas “Foreign official institutions”latest 2026-08-01
Sources
Foreign Holdings of U.S. Equities, All Countries · USD bn. Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury and Federal Reserve Board, Treasury International Capital (TIC) System: monthly "U.S. Long-Term Securities Held by Foreign Residents" (https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/slt_table1.txt, column for_lt_eqty_pos) and, before 2020, the former Table 1D history (https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/slt1d_globl.csv). U.S. government work, public domain. Read weekly.
Foreign Official Holdings of U.S. Equities · USD bn. Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury and Federal Reserve Board, Treasury International Capital (TIC) System: monthly "U.S. Long-Term Securities Held by Foreign Residents" (https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/slt_table1.txt, column for_lt_eqty_pos) and, before 2020, the former Table 1D history (https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/slt1d_globl.csv). U.S. government work, public domain. Read weekly.
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