Foreign holdings of US Securities decreased for the first time in 5 months by $299 million sequentially (weekly) to $2,809.9 billion from $2,810.2 billion in the prior month. Keep in mind in the same time period the Fed purchased over $16.6 billion of Treasuries, indicating that in the last week the Fed was the only purchaser of Treasuries. In a normal environment this would be a very troubling development.

From a post at EuroTrib by: ARGeezer:
Economy and Finance Federal Reserve Balance Sheet Update: Week Of August 12 Zero Hedge

And to underscore that deflation still rules, The Federal Reserve's Monetary Base number of $1,643 billion was a decline of $31 billion MoM. Additionally Deposit Reserves were at $772.6 billion, a $33.2 billion decline MoM (hopefully this simply means that some banks have finally resorted to pushing excess reserves out of the basement and out the door).