{"id":84696,"date":"2015-02-20T11:09:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T11:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2015\/02\/20\/242387\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:16:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:16:25","slug":"china-gobbles-up-long-term-u-s-debt-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2015\/02\/20\/84696\/","title":{"rendered":"China Gobbles Up Long-Term U.S. Debt: WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, February 20. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> China gobbled up Treasury debt maturing in more than a year at the fastest clip on record in 2014, while shedding some very short-term debt, a Wall Street Journal analysis of the latest U.S. data show.<\/p>\n<p>The net increase in China\u2019s purchases of Treasury notes and bonds, those maturing in two to 30 years, soared by $185.683 billion last year, surpassing the previous high of $123.454 billion set in 2009, based on capital-flow data released this week by the Treasury.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s total holdings of U.S. government debt fell by $25.8 billion last year to $1.2443 trillion at the end of December, the Treasury said. The decline reflects large sales of Treasury bills, which mature in a year or less.<\/p>\n<p>The latest data underscore China\u2019s role in sending long-term Treasury bond prices soaring and yields tumbling over the past year. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.173% at the end of 2014 from 3.03% at the end of 2013. The yield was 2.112% on Thursday. \u20130&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China gobbled up Treasury debt maturing in more than a year at the fastest clip on record in 2014, while shedding some very short-term debt, a Wall Street Journal analysis of the latest U.S. data show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12147,9216],"tags":[12880,15463],"class_list":{"0":"post-84696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bonds-am-en-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-wsj-2"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}