As of December 2024, Japan held United States treasury securities totaling about 1.06 trillion U.S. dollars. Foreign holders of United States treasury debt According to the Federal Reserve and U.S. Department of the Treasury, foreign countries held a total of 8.5 trillion U.S. dollars in U.S. treasury securities as of December 2024. Of the total held by foreign countries, Japan and Mainland China held the greatest portions, with China holding 759 billion U.S. dollars in U.S. securities. The U.S. public debt In 2023, the United States had a total public national debt of 33.2 trillion U.S. dollars, an amount that has been rising steadily, particularly since 2008. In 2023, the total interest expense on debt held by the public of the United States reached 678 billion U.S. dollars, while 197 billion U.S. dollars in interest expense were intra governmental debt holdings. Total outlays of the U.S. government were 6.1 trillion U.S. dollars in 2023. By 2029, spending is projected to reach 8.3 trillion U.S. dollars.

The value of U.S. Treasury securities held by residents of Russia amounted to ** million U.S. dollars in March 2025, marking a stark contrast to ***** billion U.S. dollars held in January 2020. The lowest over the period under consideration was recorded in November 2023 at ** million U.S. dollars. Furthermore, in March 2020, the figure plummeted to **** billion U.S. dollars, down from **** billion U.S. dollars one month prior. Russia’s holdings of U.S. treasury securities have decreased since 2014 following the Western sanctions over the annexation of Crimea and have further dropped in 2022 after more restrictions were imposed over the war in Ukraine. What are U.S. treasury holdings? U.S. treasury holdings are government debt instruments that contribute to the funding of various government projects in the country. The U.S. Department of Treasury allows individuals and organizations to invest in treasury notes, bills, and bonds, which are the main three types of securities. Just under half of the outstanding ** trillion U.S. dollars as of May 2024 were in the form of treasury notes. The notes have varying maturities and coupon payment frequencies, which are different from the maturity periods of treasury bills and bonds. Main foreign holders of U.S. treasury securities Foreign holdings of U.S. treasury debt amounted to ***** trillion U.S. dollars as of January 2024. Japan and China held the largest portions, with China possessing ***** billion U.S. dollars in U.S. securities. Additionally, other significant foreign holders included oil exporting countries and Caribbean banking centers.

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The U.S. cross-border securities portfolio is used as a case study to document the extent of distortions in traditional residence-based portfolio statistics. With cross-border holdings of $12 trillion in stocks and bonds as of end-2017, the United States in aggregate is the single largest cross-border investor. Authors exploit the underlying security-level data on U.S. cross-border portfolio holdings collected as part of the Treasury International Capital (TIC) system. Using security-level identifiers as well as modern text matching techniques, authors map these holdings, security by security, to the country of exposure for each firm as assigned by commercial products designed for international investors, thus converting these holdings to a nationality basis. For common stock equity holdings, authors rely primarily on the constituent information for Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) country-focused equity indexes, supplemented with information on the primary location of operations for firms that are not included in the MSCI indexes. For bonds, authors also rely on information about the ultimate parent company obtained from Moody's Investors Service, and, for asset-backed securities, about the underlying assets to map holdings of corporate bonds to a nationality basis. Each data file contains the market value by country of US holdings of long-term securities that are considered foreign on a residence basis as published in the Treasury International Capital data, and their corresponding values on a nationality basis, for end-December of each year.

Tesla made headlines in 2021 when it comes to buying Bitcoin (BTC), but the software company MicroStrategy held ********** their amount of the cryptocurrency. This according to an overview created by accessing what information was available from publicly listed companies, such as from their quarterly reports or filings. The figures provided are on how much Bitcoin the companies have bought and keep in their corporate treasury, essentially making cryptocurrencies part of their assets and that company's investment strategy. Two companies stand out in this list: first, Tesla announced in March 2021 it would accept BTC directly - Bitcoins paid for their cars would be retained as Bitcoin, and not converted from BTC to U.S. dollar. This is unlike other companies that accept Bitcoin as a payment method, like Microsoft, which uses a payment processor called BitPay to convert cryptocurrency to fiat currency. Second, there is Coinbase: One of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges amid a Bitcoin price surge, the U.S. company went public in April 2021 and was considered a potential blockbuster IPO.