{"id":658265,"date":"2026-05-08T18:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/658265\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:48:12","slug":"fed-data-suggest-japan-sold-us-debt-amid-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/658265\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed Data Suggest Japan Sold US Debt Amid Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Federal Reserve\u2019s custody holdings of Treasuries fell for the first time in a month at a time Japan was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-07\/japan-likely-used-30-billion-in-followup-yen-intervention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">likely intervening<\/a> to support its currency, with market participants debating whether the nation offloaded US securities to fund its yen purchases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/FARWMSFT:Ind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">marketable US Treasury securities<\/a> the Fed holds for foreign official and international accounts slipped by $8.7 billion to $2.73 trillion in the week to May 6, according to data released by the central bank. Japan\u2019s Ministry of Finance was estimated to have spent about $54.7 billion to buy its currency during the same period. The drop in the Fed\u2019s holdings is consistent with the possibility that Japan\u2019s intervention involved Treasury sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Federal Reserve\u2019s custody holdings of Treasuries fell for the first time in a month at a time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,111008,99,65396,13110,164,176,102343,3786,5575,941,26333,171,6900],"class_list":["post-658265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bank-of-japan-the","tag-business","tag-currency-markets","tag-debt","tag-economy","tag-federal-reserve","tag-generic-1st-cl-future","tag-government","tag-iran","tag-japan","tag-japanese-yen-spot","tag-markets","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}