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Apart from limited interest among Data Buffet's users, this particular data file commonly exhibits formatting anomalies that impede our prompt harvest.
This operation impacts 1,404 monthly series (also, 854 were already terminated).
Geo coverage is 141 areas, consisting of 31 country-composites, 110 individual countries, and 104 ISO numeric geo codes (the latter are aliases). There are two to 18 concepts per geo, and 208 to 245 geos (including aliases) per concept. Date ranges vary; series start between 1977m1 and 2015m1, and end as late as 2019m2.
Concept codes have the patterns:
- XSCFP?M = Purchases
- XSCFS?M = Sales
The impacted series reside in the historical catalog (United States » Financial » Treasury International Capital » Monthly » Cross-border flows » Foreigner purchases and sales of long-term securities [DISCONTINUED]) and include, for example:
- XSCFPDCBM.I096 = Foreigner purchases of long-term securities: Corporate and other bonds, (Mil. USD, NSA) - for "total international and regional organizations"
- XSCFPDGM.ITAFC = Purchases - Bonds of U.S. government corporations and federally sponsored agencies - for "total all foreign countries"
- XSCFSDMM.IYUG = [DISCONTINUED] Foreigner sales of long-term securities: Marketable Treasury and federal financing bonds and notes - for Yugoslavia
- XSCFSM.IKNA = Sales - Total - for St. Christopher and Nevis
The complete TIC monthly release contains 5,027 monthly and quarterly series, of which 2,066 remain active. We continue to harvest the remaining tables of the release:
- Press release items (npr_history.csv)
- Major foreign holders (mfh.txt)
- Total liabilities to foreigners by 9 types and country (lb_globl.csv)
- Total claims on foreigners by 14 types and country (cb_globl.csv)
- Net purchases of long-term agency bonds (agnsect.txt)
- Net purchases of corporate bonds (corpsect.txt)
- Net purchases of equities (stksect.txt)
- Net purchases of Treasury securities (tressect.txt)
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