Who will hold most of the U.S debt? (March 2009)

Which report will this be based on? From the press releases section it looks like the next report that will give country breakdowns will be on 02/27/2009 for June 2008. I couldn't find country data anywhere else.

thanks!

Good treasury watch on the market was seen A and voiced on our foreign correspondence programme two years ago that this was brought on by why was our interest rate so much higher than most other countries at that time we had a over heated economy of course since then we (Australia) have reduced ours and in all probability will reduce again at the November meeting of of our reserve bank and japan at that time where working at a nil interest rate

Remember when your Mommy told you to eat your peas for "the poor starving people in China"?

Do you know what the Chinese are going to tell their kids in 2009? To eat their rice for "the poor starving people in America"...

Historically, the Chinese peasants have been renown for hard, grinding work. Efficient and willing to put up with a great deal of harshness, the superb workforce inherent within the ancient ethos of Chinese farming was finally, after 200 years of destruction of Chinese industry and commerce, it was reborn in all its majesty.

@curios - "all probability will reduce again at the November meeting of of our reserve bank and japan at that time where working at a nil interest rate"

All the highflying nations that were part of the Japanese carry trade complex are collapsing. The krona has now vanished as a currency. I would feel sorry for all those poor currency traders who were not pros who were taken to the cleaners! The only really successful currency traders are all very, very, VERY politically connected so they get plenty of warnings of troubles ahead.

The report referred to in the background also contained this statement:
"This annual survey was undertaken jointly by the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The next survey will be for end-June 2008, and preliminary data are expected to be released by February 27, 2009."

Perhaps the suspension date should be pushed back to mid to late February?

@randburg - my Chinese politics professor at the Univ of Minnesota said in all seriousness that Chinese parents were telling there kids that about Americans during the Mao years because of the way America was protrayed within China. Which seems very sad since so many Chinese died during Mao's famines created out of bad agriculture policies and exporting needed rice.

China fears for its huge stake in US
Premier Wen Jiabao ... "... a little bit worried ". Photo: AP

March 13, 2009
China is concerned about its investments in the United States, Premier Wen Jiabao said today, as he called on US economic planners to safeguard the assets.

"We have lent huge amounts of money to the United States. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets," Wen told reporters.

"To be honest, I am a little bit worried and I would like to ... call on the United States to honour its word and remain a credible nation and ensure the safety of Chinese assets."

As the largest creditor to the United States, China is "extremely interested in developments in the US economy," he said.

"On the foreign reserves issue, the first consideration is our national interest," he said. "But we also have to consider the stability of the overall international financial system, as the two factors are interlinked."

With the world's largest foreign exchange reserves, standing at $US1.95 trillion ($2.98 trillion) at the end of December, China is facing the challenge of finding safe ways of placing its money, forcing it to buy large amounts of US government debt.

China held $US727.4 billion ($1.1 trillion) in US Treasury bonds at the end of last year, ahead of Japan, the holder of $US626 billion ($956.46 billion) in bonds, according to US government data.

http://business.watoday.com.au/business/china-fears-for-its-huge-stake-in-us-20090313-8xjo.html

i think here is another that feel thro the crack
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-nickolas/do-you-know-which-countri_b_181228.html

This question is not about monthly data reported by the Treasury Department but its more complex data aggregated from an joint annual survey carried by Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (data as of June 2007 last year, this year from June 2008). I think there are strong chances the answer to this will be Japan. The preliminary data is here http://www.ustreas.gov/tic/shlprelim.html.
You can find last year report here http://www.ustreas.gov/tic/ticpress.shtml. Look at point 2 Annual surveys and not monthly data. Last year report is here http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/hp947.htm.

Also look at bayoubear's comment no 8 to see to what report this question is about.

"Next Release is expected on 04/30/2009 at 4 p.m. in Washington D.C.: Report on Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities at End-June 2008."

The report was just released.
Here is the press release. http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/tg116.htm
Here you can find the report. http://www.treas.gov/tic/fpis.html
Which is this. http://www.treas.gov/tic/shla2008r.pdf
I hope it is obvious for everyone that it is the same data as in the background of this question, which is different from the data released every month.

I initially predicted China on this question and in the last months of 2008 China took the lead from Japan in the monthly reporting of the US Treasury as holder of most US debt.
Then in the first days of 2009 I looked closely at the description of the question and it was not about monthly reporting (as I wrongly assumed at first look) but about different data - a yearly survey released at the end of April each year - a picture back from June previous probably because since more institutions are involved in reporting this and the data is more complex from those released by the Treasury alone, June is the time that appropriate data could be gathered from all institutions. So I then cashed in my bets on China (about 10k) losing 2k.
But the question is not clear and there were no clarifications made as to which report it refers also it is clear that all the references is from - and the link in the background is to - last year "Report on Foreign Holdings of U.S. Securities at End-June 2007" and the data to which refers are different and more complex then the data released by Treasury alone in monthly reporting. So I think the correct choice is unfortunately for this to be voided.

This year report was released on April 30th, 2009 (data for end June 2008). See at comment 15.
Next year report will be probably on April 30th 2010 (data for end June 2009) with preliminary data released on February 26th 2010. Complementary data with the situation at year-end 2008 is currently processed with a preliminary report by August 31th, 2009. See here http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/tg116.htm.
Since this are annual surveys, there will be no such data for March 2009, as the question asks.

So are you saying the question itself is invalid...

Unfortunately yes. This are annual surveys (called "Foreign Portofolio Holdings of US Securities"). There won't be data for March. Just for end-June.

PS The complementary report that I refered to at comment 17 is "US Portofolio Holdings of Foreign Securities", which is totally something else.