Russia cuts investments in U.S. bonds by $20 billion since 2014

Russian investments into American treasury bonds have decreased by $20 billion over the last year. This information comes from data recently published by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

In November 2015 Russia held $88 billion in American bonds, while in November 2014 the amount was $108.1 billion. In April 2015 investments into American government bonds totaled $66.5 billion, however, after that the country started gradually increasing investments in them again. 

Russia takes 15^th place worldwide in terms of the amount of American bonds it holds. The first place belongs to China: in November 2015 that country owned more than $1.2 trillion in bonds.

First published in Russian in RBC Daily.

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