# Foreign Holders Reducing U.S. Treasury Holdings, October 2018

# Overview

• October 2018 marks the first month when all major foreign holders, except Cayman Islands, reduced their US treasury holdings.

# Keywords

offset, delta, merge-columns

# Graphics

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

# Syntax Features

• merge-columns setting to merge multiple series into one row.

# merge base and offset series into a single row, one per country
merge-columns = a.tags.country == b.tags.country

• time-offset setting to load series with a time lag.

[series]
  # load series with 1 month lag
  time-offset = 1 month