Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Financial Accounts of the United States - Z.1

F.200 U.S. Official Reserve Assets and SDR Allocations (1)

2016:Q4 Release Date: March 9, 2017

Billions of dollars; quarterly figures are seasonally adjusted annual rates


Description		 Series code 2014
2015
2016
2015
Q3		 2015
Q4		 2016
Q1		 2016
Q2		 2016
Q3		 2016
Q4
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All sectors; U.S. official reserve assets; liability FA893111005 -3.6 -6.3 0.8 -1.1 -4.0 -4.8 0.8 6.6 0.8 1
Federal government; special drawing rights (SDRs) allocations; liability FA313111303 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2
Rest of the world; U.S. official reserve assets; liability FA263111005 -3.6 -6.3 0.8 -1.1 -4.0 -4.8 0.8 6.6 0.8 3
Federal government; special drawing rights (SDRs) holdings; asset FA313011303 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4
Rest of the world; reserve position in IMF (net); liability FA263111403 -3.8 -6.5 0.8 -1.3 -4.2 -4.9 0.7 6.6 0.8 5
Rest of the world; other U.S. reserve assets (total); liability FA263111503 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 -0.1 -0.0 6
All sectors; U.S. official reserve assets FA893011005 -3.6 -6.3 0.8 -1.1 -4.0 -4.8 0.8 6.6 0.8 7
Federal government; U.S. official reserve assets FA313011005 -3.8 -6.4 1.0 -1.2 -4.0 -4.3 0.7 6.6 0.9 8
Federal government; monetary gold; asset(2) FA313011205 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9
Federal government; special drawing rights (SDRs) holdings; asset FA313011303 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10
Federal government; reserve position in IMF (net); asset FA313011405 -3.9 -6.5 1.0 -1.3 -4.2 -4.3 0.7 6.6 0.9 11
Federal government; other reserves; asset FA313011505 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 -0.0 -0.0 12
Rest of the world; U.S. official reserve assets FA263011005 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 13
Rest of the world; monetary gold; asset(2) FA263011205 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 14
Federal government; special drawing rights (SDRs) allocations; liability FA313111303 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 15
Monetary authority; U.S. official reserve assets FA713011005 0.2 0.1 -0.1 0.2 0.1 -0.5 0.0 -0.0 -0.1 16
Monetary authority; monetary gold; asset(2) FA713011203 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 17
Monetary authority; reserve position in IMF (net); asset FA713011405 0.1 0.0 -0.2 0.1 -0.0 -0.5 0.0 -0.0 -0.1 18
Monetary authority; foreign currency denominated assets FA713011505 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 -0.0 -0.0 19

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NOTES

  1. Includes federal government liability to IMF for special drawing rights (SDRs) allocations and accrued interest.
  2. By international accounting standards, transactions in monetary gold are recorded in the financial account of the domestic sectors as increases (decreases) in assets, and the counterparts are recorded as decreases (increases) in assets of the rest of the world.
Last update: March 9, 2017