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Release Date: March 12, 2015
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F.212 Corporate and Foreign Bonds
Billions of dollars; quarterly figures are seasonally adjusted annual rates
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| All sectors; corporate and foreign bonds; liability | -239.5 | 105.9 | 223.6 | 387.6 | 479.6 | 632.2 | 717.7 | 363.7 | 687.2 | 483.5 | 384.1 | 1 |
| Nonfinancial corporate business; corporate bonds; liability | 179.4 | 161.6 | 324.1 | 278.1 | 267.8 | 429.9 | 199.0 | 284.8 | 232.3 | 209.5 | 344.4 | 2 |
| Financial business; corporate and foreign bonds; liability | -546.3 | -237.4 | -225.2 | -84.9 | 58.2 | 18.6 | 259.0 | 30.8 | 105.0 | 15.2 | 81.7 | 3 |
| U.S.-chartered depository institutions; corporate and foreign bonds; liability | -49.2 | 2.4 | -82.3 | -74.9 | -12.0 | -75.3 | -16.6 | -27.2 | -10.1 | -11.9 | 1.0 | 4 |
| Issuers of asset-backed securities; corporate and foreign bonds; liability | -373.6 | -150.1 | -136.0 | -228.4 | -57.1 | -66.4 | -40.1 | -129.0 | -99.2 | 5.7 | -5.7 | 5 |
| Finance companies; corporate and foreign bonds; liability | -111.7 | -39.4 | -81.3 | 4.4 | 19.9 | 24.4 | 27.1 | -10.2 | 38.2 | 2.9 | 48.7 | 6 |
| Real estate investment trusts; corporate and foreign bonds; liability | 1.0 | 7.6 | 26.7 | 173.6 | 46.2 | 35.1 | 111.0 | 115.5 | 55.1 | -1.0 | 15.0 | 7 |
| Security brokers and dealers; corporate and foreign bonds; liability | 36.9 | -37.9 | -1.7 | 22.2 | 11.5 | -27.8 | 65.1 | 41.3 | -37.4 | 42.1 | -0.1 | 8 |
| Holding companies; corporate and foreign bonds; liability | -46.5 | -91.6 | 14.1 | 6.7 | 27.6 | 67.2 | 143.9 | 48.1 | 87.3 | -14.2 | -11.0 | 9 |
| Funding corporations; corporate and foreign bonds where the proceeds are down-streamed to broker-dealer subsidiaries by investment banks that are holding-company parents; liability | -3.2 | 71.6 | 35.3 | 11.4 | 22.2 | 61.5 | -31.4 | -7.6 | 71.1 | -8.4 | 33.8 | 10 |
| Rest of the world; bonds; liability | 127.4 | 181.7 | 124.7 | 194.4 | 153.7 | 183.7 | 259.7 | 48.2 | 349.8 | 258.7 | -42.1 | 11 |
| All sectors; corporate and foreign bonds; liability | -239.5 | 105.9 | 223.6 | 387.6 | 479.6 | 632.2 | 717.7 | 363.7 | 687.2 | 483.5 | 384.1 | 12 |
| Households and nonprofit organizations; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | -422.0 | 89.0 | -165.9 | -200.2 | -128.8 | -112.2 | 161.3 | -147.1 | 18.4 | -62.7 | -324.0 | 13 |
| Federal government; corporate bonds issued by commercial banking under TARP; asset | 0.3 | -0.1 | -0.2 | -0.1 | -0.0 | -0.1 | -0.0 | -0.0 | -0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 14 |
| State and local governments, excluding employee retirement funds; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | 8.4 | -2.4 | 3.7 | 2.4 | 0.2 | -4.8 | -0.4 | 10.0 | -6.1 | -7.9 | 4.8 | 15 |
| U.S.-chartered depository institutions, including IBFs; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | -98.2 | 2.5 | -9.0 | 15.2 | -37.4 | 50.1 | 13.6 | -75.8 | 2.1 | -82.4 | 6.4 | 16 |
| U.S.-chartered depository institutions; private MBS and CMOs; asset | -88.1 | -24.8 | -1.0 | -1.3 | -8.6 | 6.5 | 1.3 | -23.3 | 4.9 | -16.2 | 0.1 | 17 |
| U.S.-chartered depository institutions, including IBFs; corporate and foreign bonds, excluding private MBS and CMOs; asset | -10.2 | 27.3 | -8.0 | 16.5 | -28.8 | 43.6 | 12.2 | -52.4 | -2.8 | -66.2 | 6.3 | 18 |
| Foreign banking offices in the U.S., including IBFs; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | -9.4 | -1.4 | -6.2 | -34.1 | 0.9 | 1.3 | -27.0 | 16.6 | 1.2 | -7.7 | -6.4 | 19 |
| Banks in U.S.-affiliated areas; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | -1.4 | 3.6 | 1.0 | 0.6 | -0.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 2.5 | -0.6 | -2.3 | -1.4 | 20 |
| Credit unions; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | -15.7 | -0.3 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 0.2 | -3.0 | 4.3 | 21 |
| Credit unions; mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed bonds; asset | -0.7 | -0.3 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 2.6 | 0.3 | -2.6 | 3.9 | 22 |
| Credit unions; corporate and foreign bonds, excluding mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed bonds; asset | -15.0 | -0.1 | -0.4 | 0.1 | -0.0 | -0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -0.1 | -0.4 | 0.4 | 23 |
| Property-casualty insurance companies; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | 24.3 | 40.4 | 19.6 | 24.2 | 9.1 | 24.5 | 22.8 | 0.6 | 5.3 | 25.7 | 4.7 | 24 |
| Property-casualty insurance companies; mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed bonds; asset | 0.0 | -0.6 | 3.2 | 8.7 | 0.7 | 7.6 | 12.7 | -0.3 | 0.1 | 3.2 | -0.1 | 25 |
| Property-casualty insurance companies; corporate and foreign bonds, excluding mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed bonds; asset | 24.3 | 41.1 | 16.4 | 15.5 | 8.3 | 16.9 | 10.1 | 0.9 | 5.2 | 22.5 | 4.8 | 26 |
| Life insurance companies; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | 102.9 | 87.1 | 45.0 | 60.8 | 93.2 | 29.0 | 70.2 | 99.9 | 87.7 | 97.6 | 87.6 | 27 |
| Life insurance companies, general accounts; mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed bonds; asset | 0.0 | 0.0 | -24.3 | 9.1 | 16.7 | 9.1 | 9.1 | 22.1 | 18.0 | 12.4 | 14.1 | 28 |
| Life insurance companies; corporate and foreign bonds, excluding mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed bonds; asset | 102.9 | 87.1 | 69.3 | 51.8 | 76.5 | 19.9 | 61.0 | 77.8 | 69.8 | 85.1 | 73.5 | 29 |
| Private pension funds; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | 82.1 | 44.5 | 83.8 | 5.5 | 13.0 | 17.1 | 10.3 | -18.8 | 37.7 | 23.0 | 10.2 | 30 |
| Federal government retirement funds; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | 0.2 | 1.4 | 1.7 | -1.3 | -0.7 | -0.2 | -0.9 | -3.1 | 0.4 | -0.4 | 0.4 | 31 |
| State and local government employee defined benefit retirement funds; domestic corporate bonds; asset | 5.9 | -10.9 | -29.3 | 29.5 | 42.2 | -8.6 | 64.8 | 36.7 | 104.3 | -10.5 | 38.2 | 32 |
| Money market mutual funds; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | -15.7 | -49.1 | -3.0 | -0.0 | -23.8 | -6.4 | 51.8 | -53.0 | -89.5 | 18.8 | 28.6 | 33 |
| Mutual funds; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | 122.3 | 170.3 | 306.0 | 279.3 | 313.0 | 315.2 | 205.9 | 274.9 | 453.3 | 240.3 | 283.4 | 34 |
| Closed-end funds; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | 4.1 | -2.3 | 7.5 | 14.6 | -4.2 | 3.9 | 3.9 | -2.8 | -0.1 | -3.8 | -10.1 | 35 |
| Exchange-traded funds; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | 18.7 | 33.6 | 47.6 | 19.5 | 34.8 | 22.0 | 17.5 | 33.6 | 30.2 | 15.8 | 59.7 | 36 |
| Government-sponsored enterprises; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | -29.6 | -30.8 | -50.0 | -59.4 | -28.9 | -118.3 | -51.2 | -24.8 | -42.9 | -31.8 | -16.2 | 37 |
| Government-sponsored enterprises; mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed bonds; asset | -46.5 | -32.2 | -31.2 | -58.8 | -28.7 | -117.8 | -50.5 | -24.3 | -42.0 | -31.1 | -17.4 | 38 |
| Government-sponsored enterprises; corporate and foreign bonds, excluding mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed bonds; asset | 17.0 | 1.4 | -18.8 | -0.6 | -0.2 | -0.5 | -0.7 | -0.5 | -0.8 | -0.7 | 1.3 | 39 |
| Finance companies; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | -19.8 | 0.9 | -6.3 | -10.8 | 6.1 | -0.4 | -8.1 | 15.6 | 2.5 | -10.1 | 16.3 | 40 |
| Real estate investment trusts; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | 7.2 | 3.8 | 9.5 | -0.2 | 1.4 | 1.1 | -14.6 | 6.0 | -2.7 | -1.1 | 3.5 | 41 |
| Security brokers and dealers; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | 35.2 | -85.0 | 35.5 | -11.1 | -6.8 | -2.8 | -20.6 | -3.3 | 28.3 | -4.5 | -47.7 | 42 |
| Holding companies; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | 7.3 | -20.1 | -11.9 | 37.0 | 2.6 | 154.0 | -1.7 | -6.9 | 5.4 | 25.7 | -13.8 | 43 |
| Funding corporations; corporate and foreign bonds, including financial stabilization programs; asset | -9.8 | -57.3 | -36.2 | 8.9 | 4.7 | -4.4 | -11.5 | 48.0 | -18.1 | -5.2 | -5.9 | 44 |
| Rest of the world; corporate and foreign bonds; asset | -36.8 | -111.5 | -19.7 | 205.2 | 188.5 | 271.3 | 229.8 | 152.3 | 70.4 | 269.8 | 261.5 | 45 |
| Rest of the world; U.S. mortgage-backed securities and other U.S. asset-backed bonds; asset | -45.5 | -44.8 | -36.1 | -22.5 | -11.6 | -13.0 | -16.0 | -8.6 | -10.1 | -36.0 | 8.5 | 46 |
| Rest of the world: U.S. corporate bonds, excluding mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed bonds; asset | 8.8 | -66.7 | 16.4 | 227.7 | 200.1 | 284.3 | 245.7 | 160.9 | 80.5 | 305.8 | 253.0 | 47 |
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