{"id":21714,"date":"2011-06-15T09:58:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T13:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/?p=14669"},"modified":"2011-06-15T09:58:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T13:58:36","slug":"tic-long-term-purchases-fall-short-of-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/06\/15\/tic-long-term-purchases-fall-short-of-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"TIC Long-Term Purchases Fall Short of Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/profile-pics\/8.jpg\" width=\"120\"  alt=\"printprofile\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This afternoon\u2019s investment data from Treasury International Capital (TIC) revealed worse than forecast growth in foreign investment levels for domestic, long-term securities. The TIC Long-Term Purchases report measures the difference between domestic securities purchased by foreign investors and foreign securities purchased by domestic investors.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-14669\"><\/span>A positive reading represents a higher level of foreign investment in American securities than vice versa. Today\u2019s expectations were for a positive growth in the TIC report from last month\u2019s $24B to a near-doubling of $45.3B. The actual results came out at $30.6B, suggesting a sluggish period of foreign investment over the past 30 days, despite being better than the previous month\u2019s reading. Impact on the USD is being overshadowed by Greece default concerns and S&#038;P\u2019s recent downgrade of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/2011\/06\/15\/dollar-stronger-on-greek-debt-concerns\/\">Greek bonds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more forex trading news on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/\">forex blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> This afternoon\u2019s investment data from Treasury International Capital (TIC) revealed worse than forecast growth in foreign investment levels for domestic, long-term securities. The TIC Long-Term Purchases report measures the difference between domest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}