{"id":3888,"date":"2006-01-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"finance-80-of-trade-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2006\/finance-80-of-trade-deficit.html","title":{"rendered":"Finance 80% of Trade Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Safe Haven &#8211; Net foreign capital flows into the US slipped 1.4% to $89.1 bln billion in November from a revised $104.2 billion in October (initial was $106.8 bln). Although the $107 billioncomfortably exceeded the $64 billion record trade deficit for the corresponding month.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong><u>KEY POINT<\/u>:<\/strong> Despite the 41% and 74% declines in net foreign purchases of US stocks and US Agency securities respectively, and despite the 176% increase in net US purchases of  foreign stocks, total net capital inflows increased <strong>because <u>private institutions&#8217; purchases of US treasury bonds and notes DOUBLED to $50.8 bln, making up 93% of the increase in total  purchase of US Treasuries and financing up to 79% of the Nov trade deficit<\/u>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.safehaven.com\/article-4463.htm\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safe Haven &#8211; Net foreign capital flows into the US slipped 1.4% to $89.1 bln billion in November from a revised $104.2 billion in October (initial was $106.8 bln). Although the $107 billioncomfortably exceeded the $64 billion record trade deficit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}