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Description of chart 3 – Foreign portfolio investment in federal government debt securities

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The title of the graph is "Foreign portfolio investment in federal government debt securities."
This is a column stacked chart.
There are in total 49 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at -10,000 and ends at 20,000 with ticks every 5,000 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "billions of dollars."
The units of the horizontal axis are months by year from November 2008 to November 2012.
The title of series 1 is " Bonds."
The minimum value is -5,226 occurring in March 2012.
The maximum value is 11,468 occurring in May 2010.
The title of series 2 is " Money market instruments."
The minimum value is -4,745 occurring in January 2012.
The maximum value is 5,988 occurring in July 2011.

Foreign portfolio investment in federal government debt securities, billions of dollars
  Bonds Money market instruments
November 2008 -4,099 4,120
December 2008 -3,618 2,821
January 2009 3,889 4,377
February 2009 1,164 342
March 2009 -970 4,216
April 2009 -1,871 1,533
May 2009 2,275 -187
June 2009 2,944 2,667
July 2009 2,798 -3,853
August 2009 3,001 -1,201
September 2009 1,356 -2,166
October 2009 4,709 -1,893
November 2009 1,897 -2,383
December 2009 4,829 -1,032
January 2010 6,763 2,865
February 2010 4,220 -315
March 2010 -883 -1,142
April 2010 6,461 -1,472
May 2010 11,468 3,683
June 2010 2,243 -2,196
July 2010 4,181 1,575
August 2010 1,745 404
September 2010 1,899 923
October 2010 -743 -386
November 2010 3,181 -350
December 2010 171 87
January 2011 5,415 1,028
February 2011 -4,782 -485
March 2011 3,826 -35
April 2011 1,321 3,334
May 2011 5,111 2,600
June 2011 -4,679 -310
July 2011 -265 5,988
August 2011 -1,008 2,113
September 2011 -670 5,275
October 2011 4,235 1,112
November 2011 1,464 4,778
December 2011 2,755 368
January 2012 1,684 -4,745
February 2012 10,200 -2,677
March 2012 -5,226 -3,064
April 2012 3,931 63
May 2012 9,474 4,896
June 2012 -4,077 2,191
July 2012 4,226 -2,858
August 2012 -675 681
September 2012 5,940 445
October 2012 3,608 -1,483
November 2012 2,006 3,303