[TurdF3rguson]

On the other hand, China sold off most of theirs and nobody even noticed. I think you're exaggerating both how much EU holds and the potential effects of them selling it.

[youngtaff]

China sold off their holdings pretty slowly as they didn’t want to drive the price down

[someNameIG]

Deutsche Bank made a statement recently that Europe holds about double what the rest of the world does combined in US bonds and equity.

[youngtaff]

Europe holds $8 trillion out of 38 trillion… they can move the market

[TurdF3rguson]

Sure but we were talking about just debt. Also the "rest of the world" is basically just China. I don't think it's a shocker that China isn't interested in betting on US companies.

[rsynnott]

Nah, China only holds about 600bn these days. Besides European sovereign holdings, most of the rest would be non-sovereign.

[TurdF3rguson]

Yup, that's my point. They sold off lots of debt and nobody noticed so EU doing the same won't matter.

[drysine]

>and nobody noticed

You didn't notice. Look at the interest rate chart[1]

[1] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/interest-expense-avg-interes...