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Today's Date: November 5, 2008     Release Date: September 17, 2008     Next Release Date: December 17, 2008
Earliest Quarter Revised on September 17, 2008: 2008:I

Table 5. U.S. Official Reserve Assets and Foreign Official Assets in the United States
[Millions of dollars, not seasonally adjusted]
Line (Credits +; decrease in U.S. assets or increase in foreign assets. Debits -; increase in U.S. assets or decrease in foreign assets.) 2007 2008 Amounts
Outstanding

June 30, 2008
I II III IV I II p
A1 U.S. official reserve assets, net (table 1, line 41) -72 26 -54 -22 -276 -1,267 307,578
2         Gold (table 1, line 42) 0 0 0 0 0 0 243,259
3         Special drawing rights (table 1, line 43) -43 -39 -37 -35 -29 -22 9,849
4         Reserve position in the International Monetary Fund (table 1,
             line 44)
212 294 230 285 112 -955 5,237
5         Foreign currencies (table 1, line 45) -241 -229 -247 -272 -359 -290 49,233
B1 Foreign official assets in the United States, net (table 1, line 56) 163,270 88,822 13,469 145,497 173,533 144,417 3,611,363
      By instrument:  
2         U.S. Treasury securities (table 1, line 58) 40,337 1,610 -25,810 42,728 88,649 57,245 1,842,615
3             Bills and certificates 22,275 -38,152 17,352 18,173 6,223 23,919 226,622
4             Bonds and notes, marketable 18,042 39,741 -43,183 24,533 82,404 33,303 1,614,837
5             Bonds and notes, nonmarketable 20 21 21 22 22 23 1,156
6         Other U.S. government securities (table 1, line 59) 81,303 60,031 18,022 12,109 79,234 93,145 973,466
7         Other U.S. government liabilities (table 1, line 60) 366 -69 913 4,132 1,645 2,439 28,108
8         U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere
             (table 1, line 61)
30,329 15,956 9,873 52,537 -26,930 -30,131 348,646
9             Banks' liabilities for own account1 30,331 15,367 -27,354 14,212 -20,974 -6,836 195,885
10                 Repurchase agreements 34,569 7,813 -21,118 19,404 -18,277 3,939 144,149
11                 Deposits and brokerage balances2 1,432 4,955 -4,927 -7,871 -3,201 -5,351 46,158
12                 Other liabilities -5,670 2,599 -1,309 2,679 504 -5,424 5,578
13             Banks' customers' liabilities1 -2 589 37,227 38,325 -5,956 -23,295 152,761
14                 Negotiable certificates of deposit and other short-term
                     instruments
80 -131 36,823 38,468 -13,583 -17,835 149,593
15                 Other liabilities -82 720 404 -143 7,627 -5,460 3,168
16         Other foreign official assets (table 1, line 62) 10,935 11,294 10,471 33,991 30,935 21,719 418,528
      By area:  
17         Europe 18,394 -7,127 15,707 46,401 42,919 22,492 656,378
18         Canada 626 304 -1,056 847 -17 197 12,055
19         Latin America and Caribbean 22,823 33,079 15,640 8,810 8,730 23,053 306,756
20         Asia 111,395 50,498 10,678 105,813 115,426 95,184 2,578,938
21         Africa 1,735 4,168 -593 1,666 1,645 3,585 32,612
22         Other 8,297 7,900 -26,907 -18,040 4,830 -94 24,624

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