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Today's Date: May 7, 2009     Release Date: March 18, 2009     Next Release Date: June 17, 2009
Earliest Quarter Revised on March 18, 2009: 2008:III

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
December
31, 2008
I II III IV I II III IV p
A1 U.S. official reserve assets, net (table 1, line 41) -72 26 -54 -22 -276 -1,267 -179 -3,126 293,733
2         Gold (table 1, line 42) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 227,439
3         Special drawing rights (table 1, line 43) -43 -39 -37 -35 -29 -22 -30 -25 9,340
4         Reserve position in the International Monetary Fund (table 1,
             line 44) 		212 294 230 285 112 -955 256 -2,886 7,683
5         Foreign currencies (table 1, line 45) -241 -229 -247 -272 -359 -290 -405 -215 49,271
B1 Foreign official assets in the United States, net (table 1, line 56) 163,270 88,822 13,469 145,497 173,533 145,391 116,078 -13,627 3,775,693
      By instrument:  
2         U.S. Treasury securities (table 1, line 58) 40,337 1,610 -25,810 42,728 88,649 58,143 116,479 178,948 2,247,352
3             Bills and certificates 22,275 -38,152 17,352 18,173 6,223 24,817 49,328 194,108 470,956
4             Bonds and notes, marketable 18,042 39,741 -43,183 24,533 82,404 33,303 67,128 -15,184 1,775,193
5             Bonds and notes, nonmarketable 20 21 21 22 22 23 23 24 1,203
6         Other U.S. government securities (table 1, line 59) 81,303 60,031 18,022 12,109 79,234 93,145 -10,559 -95,974 907,593
7         Other U.S. government liabilities (table 1, line 60) 366 -69 913 4,132 1,645 2,439 1,642 2,900 32,650
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 -30,055 10,302 -106,973 252,589
9             Banks' liabilities for own account1 30,331 15,367 -27,354 14,212 -20,974 -6,738 20,498 -26,948 189,924
10                 Repurchase agreements 34,569 7,813 -21,118 19,404 -18,277 4,037 4,342 -29,529 119,451
11                 Deposits and brokerage balances2 1,432 4,955 -4,927 -7,871 -3,201 -4,830 9,950 4,686 61,315
12                 Other liabilities -5,670 2,599 -1,309 2,679 504 -5,945 6,206 -2,105 9,158
13             Banks' customers' liabilities1 -2 589 37,227 38,325 -5,956 -23,317 -10,196 -80,025 62,665
14                 Negotiable certificates of deposit and other short-term
                     instruments 		80 -131 36,823 38,468 -13,583 -17,857 -7,028 -80,028 62,662
15                 Other liabilities -82 720 404 -143 7,627 -5,460 -3,168 3 3
16         Other foreign official assets (table 1, line 62) 10,935 11,294 10,471 33,991 30,935 21,719 -1,786 7,472 335,509
      By area:  
17         Europe 18,394 -7,127 15,707 46,401 42,919 22,790 1,074 -103,225 562,971
18         Canada 626 304 -1,056 847 -17 202 -181 1,507 13,129
19         Latin America and Caribbean 22,823 33,079 15,640 8,810 8,730 23,053 -14,247 -9,117 295,726
20         Asia 111,395 50,498 10,678 105,813 115,426 95,754 130,039 89,733 2,838,469
21         Africa 1,735 4,168 -593 1,666 1,645 3,688 2,494 1,976 38,018
22         Other 8,297 7,900 -26,907 -18,040 4,830 -96 -3,101 5,499 27,380

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