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Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to November 18, 2009 by Housing Doom on Nov 20, 2009The Board’s H.4.1 statistical release, "Factors Affecting Reserve Balances of Depository Institutions and Condition Statement of Federal Reserve Banks," has been modified to include information related to TALF LLC, a limited liability c...

Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to November 13, 2009 by Housing Doom on Nov 13, 2009UPDATE: Oops! of course the title should have read "… to November 11, 2009".  I hate it when that happens Suddenly here’s another week where there’s just about no movement in foreign central bank holdings. The Fed&#...

Vampire Squid? Heck No. Think $2.6 Billion Medicinal Leech! by Housing Doom on Nov 6, 2009To that end, FHFA has informed Fannie Mae that a possible transfer of a portion of its LIHTC investments to unrelated third-party investors is consistent with FHFA’s ongoing efforts to conserve Enterprise assets and with the Enterprise’s...

Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to October 28, 2009 by Housing Doom on Oct 30, 2009The Fed’s own MBS holdings slid by just $2.802 billion, while foreign central banks sold off a bit more MBS than that. Meanwhile, cenbanks bought a good amount of treasuries. Altogether a pretty ho-hum week on the US obligations front. This...

Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to October 21, 2009 by Housing Doom on Oct 23, 2009The Fed’s own MBS holdings rose by a relatively modest $13.878 billion, but this made the total Fed holdings of MBS larger than the total reported for foreign central banks, who recorded a very small reduction. Meanwhile after four weeks of qu...

Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to October 14, 2009 by Housing Doom on Oct 16, 2009The Fed’s own MBS holdings leaped by $70.699 billion, but other than a return to billion dollar a day support for America’s debt markets, this week’s episode isn’t all that exciting. Funny the foreign central banks would choo...

Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to October 7, 2009 by Housing Doom on Oct 9, 2009An investor class that includes foreign central banks bought 34.5 percent of the notes, compared with 46.5 percent at the last auction and an average of 45.36 percent at the past five auctions. Bloomberg1 Could have fooled me. Last week’s chan...

Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to September 30, 2009 by Housing Doom on Oct 2, 2009NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–U.S. stocks marked their worst decline in about three months as a disappointing report on manufacturing early Thursday led to a broad sell-off for many of the companies that helped pace a surging third quarter in stocks, in...

Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to September 23, 2009 by Housing Doom on Sep 25, 2009I did my rant on Wednesday already, and even the Puplava number shows just a modest $8.539 billion rise in the Fed’s little hoard of MBS, so let’s cut right to the chase, such as it is. This week’s Reuters report1 was positively d...

the Fred eyes the Exits, Sheila flogging Treasure Coast Condos by Housing Doom on Sep 23, 2009There are some who think it’s time for the central bank to exit the market. Others say such an abrupt end would undo the Fed’s efforts to keep mortgage rates low and instead suggest a gradual wind down of its purchases and an extension of...