Results of the U.S. Treasury Department’s benchmark survey of U.S. holdings of foreign securities for 2001 were incorporated into the accounts. Estimates were revised for 1998-2001. In addition, BEA introduced new methods of estimation for measuring price changes with more detailed indexes of stock and bond prices, which improved both the global measures and geographic allocation of portfolio positions and income, and which permitted the estimates to track more closely fluctuations in financial markets.
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