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Although the euro, created in 1999, turned out to be a more serious competitor to the dollar, its share in total international reserves has probably remained below 30%, compared to 65% for the dollar (these shares are in part estimates, as China, the world’s largest holder of reserves, does not report the currency composition of its holdings).
The idea was to permit countries whose official dollar holdings were larger than they were comfortable with to convert dollars into SDRs.
Perhaps more important, it fails to recognize that Li’s Chinese land holdings still amount to more than 20 million square meters (215 million square feet) – nearly a quarter of the size of Manhattan – and that the number of retail outlets he owns in China has increased by 70% in two years.
But land holdings were concentrated and a few large combines called "Zaibatsus" held industrial power.
So long as foreign investors and central banks are content to continue piling up holdings of US debt, America can go on spending whatever is needed to sustain its many security commitments around the world, as well as finance its trade and budget deficits.
That means potentially giving a pass to the many wealthy Russians who in recent years have been selling off parts of their holdings in Russia and investing in Western countries (presumably at least partly owing to sanctions).
But Italy has objected to such limits, fearing that government funding costs might skyrocket, and perhaps also that Italian banks, which depend financially on the higher interest earnings of their holdings of public debt, might suffer excessively.
That means putting together a package that responds to Germany’s priorities – namely, ensuring fiscal stability and securing limits on bank holdings of sovereign debt – while helping to ease the burden on Italy of guarding the EU’s external border and admitting refugees.
The implication is that speculators can drive up prices and increase their inventory holdings even as total commercial inventories remain little changed.
The housing bubble was bursting by last fall, and banks with large mortgage holdings started reporting huge losses, sometimes big enough to destroy the bank itself, as in the case of Bear Stearns.
Stronger-than-expected growth could trigger an increase in long-term US interest rates, encouraging investors to shift more of their holdings from emerging market assets to US assets.
When retail investors sold off their holdings of such assets during the summer of 2013, institutional investors kept buying.
The size of holdings was similar for most upper castes and some lower castes.
This is particularly true for proposals involving a larger role for the ESM and joint guarantees for sovereign bond holdings.
Moreover, UK pension funds are reporting large deficits due to the collapsing value of their equity holdings.
Moreover, if China decided to sell its dollar holdings, the bond market would discount US government securities, raising US long-term interest rates and canceling much (perhaps all) of whatever stimulus has been provided by the dollar's depreciation.
One year on, risk premia are even higher, a second package is being put together, and private creditors are being asked to roll over their bond holdings “voluntarily.”
In a study of the congressional vote on the McFadden Act of 1927, which sought to boost competition in lending, Rodney Ramcharan of the US Federal Reserve and I found that legislators from districts with a highly unequal distribution of land holdings – farming was the primary source of income in many districts then – tended to vote against the act.
Second, not only have new foreign-equity investments declined during the financial crisis, but SWFs have also recently engaged in an unprecedented wave of divestments, especially of foreign holdings.
In times of crisis, SWFs not only invest a smaller proportion of their portfolios abroad and divest from some foreign holdings, but the total value of their investments tends to shrink as well.
Incidentally, it is plausible that the cyclical behavior of the SWFs is responsible for the underperformance of their holdings.
Its vast agricultural holdings were hamstrung by worn-out equipment and the inertia of Soviet state farming.
This, together with reform of the rules covering the capitalization of banks – which incorrectly treat all sovereign debt as risk-free and do not cap banks’ holdings of it – would enable markets, not Germany, to rein in truly excessive borrowing.
Each alone legitimately transfers risk to those better able to bear it, or backs financial holdings.
By drawing on its holdings in an International Monetary Fund reserve account, it was able to repay €750 million ($851 million) – ironically to the IMF itself – just as the payment was falling due.
From 2006 to 2008, the average CEO lost $31 million in his or her holdings of a firm’s stock, dwarfing any gains from cash compensation.
At that point, disenchanted holders of euro positions will take a fonder view of their holdings and outsiders from the US and Japan will begin to believe that diversification into the euro is viable.
Today, many of these countries have adopted more flexible exchange-rate regimes, and quite a few retain adequate reserve holdings.
The renminbi is already a major currency for world trade and investment, and accounts for a growing share of international financial transactions and reserve holdings.
This would benefit companies and central banks alike, by enabling them to diversify their foreign-currency holdings further.
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