alt Hacker News> $100 million
Is that a lot? Seems relatively inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but perhaps a warning of larger moves to come.
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The other thread going on this topic says that Europe could sell about $10 trillion. That’s a lot, but also, it’s only a bit over 10 days trading at normal volumes (according to the numbers being discussed in this thread).
It's not a lot. Multiple countries could offload hundreds of billions and the U.S. Treasury would buy them up immediately (and probably ask the Federal Reserve for some help the next day)
I can't find the program name at the moment, but the Treasury plans for situations like this regularly.
It’s hard to put an exact number but it’s on the order of $500-1000 billion daily.
So a drop in the bucket, but we’ll have to see if it’s a domino.
It's a pension fund of/for teachers in Denmark. That amount in U.S. Treasuries sounds like an expected size to me.
It’s about the right sizing for a pension fund invest. Most pension fund transactions I see are in roughly that range 50 to 200ish
Rounding error on a global scale.
China has been divesting for the last nine months, and continues to do so.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-18/foreign-h... | https://archive.today/4pfum
About $1T is traded daily so it's really more a symbolic move.
Whilst this might be symbolic, money managers don’t tend to do symbolism. Surely it’s more likely that they fear what’s to come: an economic war against the dollar as pushback for the threats from Trump. So selling before the price tanks makes good sense.
Nope but its about the sentiment
https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-cent...
It’s the symbolism more than direct financial impact. You get 100 moves like this and it starts to become real money.