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Today's Date: February 9, 2010     Release Date: December 16, 2009     Next Release Date: March 18, 2010
Earliest Quarter Revised on December 16, 2009: 2009:II
Table 5. U.S. Official Reserve Assets and Foreign Official Assets in the United States
[Millions of dollars, not seasonally adjusted]
Line (Credits +; decrease in U.S. assets or increase in foreign assets. Debits -; increase in U.S. assets or decrease in foreign assets.) 2008 2009 Amounts
Outstanding

September
30,
2009
I II III IV I II III p
A1 U.S. official reserve assets, net (table 1, line 41) -276 -1,267 -179 -3,126 -982 -3,632 -49,021 383,368
2         Gold (table 1, line 42) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 260,388
3         Special drawing rights (table 1, line 43) -29 -22 -30 -25 -15 -8 -47,720 57,945
4         Reserve position in the International Monetary Fund (table 1,
             line 44)
112 -955 256 -2,886 -754 -3,485 -1,098 13,470
5         Foreign currencies (table 1, line 45) -359 -290 -405 -215 -213 -139 -203 51,565
B1 Foreign official assets in the United States, net (table 1, line 56) 208,646 178,826 115,573 -16,024 70,892 124,299 123,584 4,179,315
      By instrument:  
2         U.S. Treasury securities (table 1, line 58) 106,005 76,220 116,479 178,948 118,309 123,713 123,763 2,631,265
3             Bills and certificates 4,829 24,144 49,328 194,108 83,344 20,700 23,756 598,756
4             Bonds and notes, marketable 101,154 52,053 67,128 -15,184 34,941 102,988 99,981 2,031,232
5             Bonds and notes, nonmarketable 22 23 23 24 24 25 26 1,277
6         Other U.S. government securities (table 1, line 59) 79,234 93,145 -10,559 -95,974 256 -3,052 -29,628 863,716
7         Other U.S. government liabilities (table 1, line 60) 1,645 2,439 1,642 2,900 2,720 1,228 53,313 89,911
8         U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks and securities brokers
             (table 1, line 61)
-24,173 -29,697 9,797 -109,370 -51,891 -732 -27,483 172,483
9             Liabilities for own accounts1 -18,227 -6,468 19,993 -29,345 -37,168 2,950 -6,581 149,125
10                 Repurchase agreements -18,161 4,037 4,342 -29,529 -26,332 4,246 -8,106 89,259
11                 Deposits and brokerage balances2 220 -6,018 9,445 2,289 -15,278 -4,730 1,928 43,274
12                 Other liabilities -286 -4,487 6,206 -2,105 4,442 3,434 -403 16,592
13             Liabilities for customers' accounts1 -5,946 -23,229 -10,196 -80,025 -14,723 -3,682 -20,902 23,358
14                 Negotiable certificates of deposit and other short-term
                     instruments
-13,573 -17,769 -7,028 -80,028 -14,720 -3,723 -20,896 23,323
15                 Other liabilities 7,627 -5,460 -3,168 3 -3 41 -6 35
16         Other foreign official assets (table 1, line 62) 45,935 36,719 -1,786 7,472 1,498 3,142 3,619 421,940
      By area:  
17         Europe 48,075 27,756 1,074 -103,225 -22,205 29,891 -16,906 515,025
18         Canada -17 202 -181 1,507 -1,872 1,111 -2,847 13,835
19         Latin America and Caribbean 12,980 27,303 -14,247 -9,117 -6,914 958 -3,380 312,559
20         Asia 141,140 119,986 129,534 87,337 103,576 90,021 98,745 3,223,893
21         Africa 1,641 3,675 2,494 1,975 1,514 531 5,984 47,401
22         Other 4,827 -96 -3,101 5,499 -3,207 1,787 41,988 66,602

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