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How much longer it can accumulate foreign assets to absorb inflows is questionable.

And with foreign assets cheaper than they have been for years, Beijing is going on an international spending spree.

That would at least let private citizens accumulate foreign assets as well as the central bank.

The danger is that this could lead to a higher yen and a fall in the value of foreign assets as a result of lower demand.

Among the main losers would be the banks in the revaluing countries, which would see the value of their foreign assets decline sharply.

Foreign assets provided cushions against the great recession and helped turn the BRICs into financial powers as well as economic ones.

Just three Brazilian enterprises have enough foreign assets to rank among the top 100 emerging-market multinationals.

Of the ten biggest such companies ranked by foreign assets, only France's EDF has less than half its total assets abroad.

Each year, with a current account surplus of about 3 per cent of GDP, it adds to its claims on foreign assets.

In Washington, the Treasury Department asked the Office of Foreign Assets Control to investigate how Al-Shabab is financed.

But in reality, what Beijing is doing is investing its money in foreign assets rather than investing in its domestic infrastructure.

China could set free its exchange rate or it could relax restrictions on capital outflows and allow private citizens to hold foreign assets.

Export revenues not spent on imports are used to acquire foreign assets, which represent Chinese saving invested abroad.

To the delight of many consumers here, the yen's gain also makes it easier for Japanese to travel abroad and invest in foreign assets.

China holds a large stash of dollar-denominated foreign assets, as well as significant amounts of renminbi-denominated liabilities.

Reducing the amount of foreign assets that Swiss banks hold is sensible but privileging domestic lending so flagrantly is alarming.

The main purpose of exchange control is to limit a citizen's ability to convert home assets into foreign assets.

Saudi Arabia is the Gulf's largest economy and its declared official foreign assets have soared to more than $330bn, driven by oil.

But unchecked inflation would also erode the domestic value of foreign assets and in a more damaging way.

Commodity-country SWFs in effect swap equity in natural resource endowments for foreign assets, financed by profits of state-owned firms.

Net foreign investment: the purchase of foreign assets by domestic residents minus the purchase of domestic assets by foreigners.

Japan's private saving has been high enough to absorb all its government's debt issuance with plenty left over to buy foreign assets.

Its foreign assets and liabilities add up to over 60% of GDP.

But even for rich countries, systematically overpaying for foreign assets is a bad idea.

Even the former should now understand this: why, after all, accumulate worthless foreign assets?

"If the intention is that US households and investors buy US assets, there is also little to stop them from buying foreign assets as well. "

Furthermore, Japanese investors are expected to scoop up foreign assets when the new financial year begins in April.

In addition, the size of the SNB's foreign assets will increase the influence of the central bank in global markets.

Not all these riches are ingested, of course. The Gulf added $215 billion to its stock of foreign assets in 2007, the IIF calculates.

But the domestic supply of financial assets is unreliable so the thrifty plump for foreign assets instead.

But as long as China runs a large current-account surplus, it must, by definition be accumulating foreign assets.

Until it abandons that core policy, it has to keep buying foreign assets and lots of dollars.

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THE government of China and the large natural-resources companies it controls have made little secret of their hunger for foreign assets.

An increase in domestic real interest rate discourages people from buying foreign assets and encourages foreigners to buy domestic assets.

But Japan habitually runs trade surpluses and, as a consequence, has built up a big stock of foreign assets.

It certainly does not need to accumulate more foreign assets.

Meanwhile, China was investing 11 per cent of GDP in low-yielding foreign assets, via its current account surplus.

However, at present, overseas business strategy is not clear, is cheaper to buy foreign assets, or move to cheaper locations.

They cannot have both safe foreign assets and huge surpluses.

The investment of more than $1, 800 per head in low-yielding foreign assets is a spectacular waste of resources.

Brazilian top 20 multinationals more than doubled their foreign assets in a single year, 2006.

As the years went by, those trade surpluses just keep growing - and so did China's board of foreign assets.

Third, the fund also calculates the exchange rate that would stabilise the country's foreign assets and liabilities at a reasonable level.

On the face of it, this represents a big drop in China's demand for foreign assets.

What's more, the government is the world's largest creditor, with plenty of foreign assets to sell.

Nor does the UK pile up foreign assets by persistently selling its own currency to manipulate the exchange rate, as does China.

On that basis, reserve hikes in January and March meant about $42. 5bn further accumulation of foreign assets in the first quarter.

the private sector holds an estimated $1, 700bn in net foreign assets.

And it has net foreign assets of $1. 8 trillion, whereas America owes a net $2. 5 trillion to foreigners.

He advises then to raise dollars by selling foreign assets, as soon as they can.

In fact, it is the world's biggest creditor nation, boasting ¥ 253 trillion ($3. 3 trillion) in net foreign assets.

"Other foreign assets" , a line item on the central bank's accounts that has barely budged in four years, began rising in August last year.

Portugal is deepest in hock: its net international debt (what it owes, less its foreign assets) rose to 112% of GDP last year.

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