Foreign U.S. Treasury Holders: Big Moves by France and Norway. December 2018

Overview

  • Norway almost doubled its long-term treasury position in December 2018.
  • France sold holdings accumulated over the previous months.
  • Ireland trimmed holdings down to 2016 levels in the aftermath of the overseas corporate tax changes.

Dataset

Keywords

offset, delta, merge-columns, csv

Graphics

  • Top-N countries by U.S. debt holdings, November 2018.

View in ChartLab

  • Reversal by France.

  • Norway goes shopping.

  • Ireland tax flows.

Syntax Features

# merge base and offset series into a single row, one per country
merge-columns = a.tags.country == b.tags.country
[series]
  # load series with 1 month lag
  time-offset = 1 month  
  • csv setting to create a list of objects with the same properties for iteration.
csv offsets = alias,offset,label
      now,0 month,Now
      m1,1 month,1 month ago
      y1,1 year,1 year ago
      y3,3 year,3 years ago
      y5,5 year,5 years ago
endcsv