Foreign holdings of US treasuries and equities - plenty to move the markets if they start selling <A HREF="http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/060428/3/40g1a.html" target="_blank">http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/060428/3/40g1a.html</A> "foreign portfolio holdings showed total foreign holdings rising to US$6.863 trillion at June 30, 2005 " Long term debt holdings had grown to $4.118 trillion Equity investments increased to $2.143 trillion I guess that means that Short term debt holdings by foreigners was $0.607 trillion.