The excess of US imports over exports continued to provide dollars to the rest of the world, which were invested in the US bond market. The graph shows that foreign investments flowed into the market for US fixed income securities in Q1 2006, at a rate 25% greater than in 2005. (See Table F107, […]

Despite worries about rising interest rates engineered by the Federal Reserve Bank, demand for corporate and foreign bonds in the US market continued firm through Q1 2006. Even with firm demand, corporate bond prices weakened in Q1 2006 because a significant increases in new offerings by corporations seeking to finance stock buybacks. The graph shows the principal […]

Despite unpopular conditions imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, foreign issuers have continued to sell equities into the US market during Q1 2006. The volume of foreign stocks issued to the US market increased significantly from highs set in 2000, as the graph shows (blue line - left axis). […]