How do you sell US Treasury bonds?

Sold through international financial securities trading institutions. It is sold through various exchanges, such as new york Stock Exchange and American Stock Exchange. Sold to ordinary investors or investment institutions, consortium banks. US Treasury bonds are known as safe investment products in the world. If you have US Treasury bonds, are you afraid that the US government will not cash them when they expire? The interest rate of US Treasury bonds is also very objective, so the liquidity of US Treasury bonds is very good.

The public and the government hold US Treasury bonds.

Can be divided into two categories:

Bonds held by the public (including foreign investors)

Marketable bond

Non-circulating bond

Bonds held in US government accounts

Foreign ownership

About 25% of US Treasury bonds are held by foreign governments, almost double the ratio of 1988 (13%). According to the statistics of US Treasury Department, at the end of 2006, 44% of "publicly held" national debt was held by foreign investors, of which 66% were the central banks of other countries, especially the Bank of Japan and the People's Bank of China.

40% of foreign holdings of US Treasury bonds come from Japan and China, and Japan is the largest holder of US Treasury bonds.

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Us treasury bonds refer to the national bonds issued by the us treasury on behalf of the federal government. According to the different issuance methods, US Treasury bonds can be divided into three types: voucher-type treasury bonds, physical voucher-type treasury bonds (also known as bearer from bond or Treasury bonds) and book-entry treasury bonds.

According to the maturity of bonds, US Treasury bonds can be roughly divided into three categories: short-term treasury bonds (T-Bills), medium-term treasury bonds (T-Notes) and long-term treasury bonds (T-bonds). In addition to local investors, countries around the world can also buy US Treasury bonds. In previous years, the average issuance of US Treasury bonds was $500 billion to $600 billion per year.

In April of 20 18, China and Japan reduced their holdings by $5.8 billion and1230 million respectively, and * * * 19 countries sold US Treasury bonds in April. [ 1]

According to the data released by the US Treasury Department on June 15, in June/20 19, Japan increased its holdings of US Treasury bonds by 21900 million US dollars, while China increased its holdings of US Treasury bonds by 2.3 billion US dollars, and Japan surpassed China to become the largest creditor country in the United States. [2]

On August 17, 2020, the U.S. Treasury Department issued a monthly report on international capital flows. Data show that in June, China sold 9.3 billion US dollars of national debt (about 64.3 billion yuan), making it the country that sold the most US debt. As of August 17, 2020, the total amount of US debt held by China remained above 1 trillion US dollars, and it remained the second largest overseas holder of US debt. [3]