Central banks holdings of foreign exchange reserves in all currencies, expressed in USD, rose to $13.0 trillion in Q3. US gold reserves are now at 90-year lows, while rest of world has pushed their holdings to near.

Central banks holdings of foreign exchange reserves in all currencies, and expressed in USD, rose to $13.0 trillion in Q3. Foreign central banks increased their holdings of USD-denominated assets by a hair in Q2. US gold reserves are now at 90-year lows, while the rest of the world has pushed their holdings to near 50-year highs. The BOJ started shedding its bond holdings in 2024 and announced recently that it would very very very slowly sell its equity ETF shares. Since the peak in the December 2023 quarter, holdings of Japanese government securities have dropped by ¥47.9 trillion (-8.1%) The BOJ stopped buying ETFs and J-REITs in Q4 2023 when its holdings at acquisition cost reached $241 billion. Nuvve will deploy two 4-hour battery systems to provide peak load mitigation, grid resiliency, and market participation. Kit Carson Electric Cooperative will use this battery-as-a-system model. Michael Saylors Strategy bought 1,286 BTC for $116 million, raising its Bitcoin holdings to 673,783 BTC. Asset management firm Strive announced it had acquired 101.8 BTC in late December, bringing its total holdings to 7,626. Bitcoin-buying firm Metaplanet buys 4,279 bitcoin, lifts total holdings to 35,102 BTC. Shareholders receive $0.083178 per share, payable on Tuesday, based on holdings as of January 5.