{"id":198701,"date":"2007-10-17T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/17\/u-s-assets-dumped-by-foreign-investors-in-august\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T01:09:00","slug":"u-s-assets-dumped-by-foreign-investors-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/17\/u-s-assets-dumped-by-foreign-investors-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Assets Dumped by Foreign Investors in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US had net sales of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">minus<\/span> $69.3 billion in August, a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">positive<\/span> sales of $60 billion.  To put this in perspective, the last time that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/21323519\">net sales of long-term securities such as bonds, notes and equities was this bad<\/a> was when Russia defaulted on its debt.<\/p>\n<p>The dollar is near ist historic low versus the Euro, and the weakness of the dollar is also driving higher oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>This will place further upward pressure on interest rates, to pull the money back, which could make the current situation even more precarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US had net sales of minus $69.3 billion in August, a positive sales of $60 billion. To put this in perspective, the last time that net sales of long-term securities such as bonds, notes and equities was this bad was when Russia defaulted on its debt. The dollar is near ist historic low versus &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1261,1080,973],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bubble","category-currency","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}