Wall Street's major banks are the fastest rate since 2004, holdings of U.S. treasury bonds because the bond market speculation that the world's largest economy will be strengthened, the demand for higher-yielding assets will increase.
According to the latest Federal Reserve data show that, as of December 29 last year, so far, to deal directly with the Fed's 18 primary dealers of U.S. Treasury bonds held by the net was 23.4 billion U.S. dollars, much lower than as of November 24 of 81.3 billion dollars; previous records began in the lowest level since February, the latter figure is from June 2009 the highest level since. At the same time, corporate bonds and mortgage bond holdings from last year's lowest level increased.