As regards the sectoral breakdown, the annual growth rate of outstanding debt securities issued by nonfinancial corporations decreased from 10.2% in August 2010 to 8.6% in September. For the monetary financial institutions (MFIs) sector, this rate of change was -0.4% in September 2010, compared with -0.3% in August. The annual growth rate of outstanding debt securities issued by financial corporations other than MFIs decreased from 1.4% in August 2010 to 0.7% in September. For the general government, this growth rate decreased from 7.7% in August 2010 to 6.9%
in September.
As regards the maturity breakdown, the annual rate of change of outstanding short-term debt securities decreased from -4.4% in August 2010 to -5.0% in September. The annual rate of change of outstanding short-term debt securities issued by MFIs decreased from -0.5% in August 2010 to -2.6% in September. For long-term debt securities, the annual growth rate decreased from 4.7% in August 2010 to 4.1% in September. The annual rate of change of outstanding long-term debt securities issued by MFIs was -0.1% in September 2010, compared with -0.3% in August. The annual growth rate of outstanding fixed rate long-term debt securities decreased from 7.5% in August 2010 to 7.0% in September. The annual rate of change of outstanding variable rate long-term debt securities was -1.0% in September 2010, compared with -1.1% in August.
Concerning the currency breakdown, the annual growth rate of outstanding euro-denominated debt securities decreased from 3.7% in August 2010 to 3.2% in September. For debt securities in other currencies, this growth rate decreased from 3.8% in August 2010 to 2.6% in September.
The seasonally adjusted three-month annualised growth rate of outstanding debt securities issued by euro area residents increased from 5.4% in August 2010 to 6.4% in September.
New issuance of quoted shares by euro area residents totalled EUR 2.2 billion in September 2010. As redemptions came to EUR 0.2 billion, net issues amounted to EUR 2.0 billion. The annual growth rate of the outstanding amount of quoted shares issued by euro area residents (excluding valuation changes) was 1.7% in September 2010, the same as in August. The annual growth rate of quoted shares issued by non-financial corporations was 0.9% in September 2010, compared with 1.0% in August. For monetary financial institutions, the corresponding growth rate was 5.2% in September 2010, compared with 5.1% in August. For financial corporations other than MFIs, this growth rate was 4.0% in September 2010, compared with 4.1% in August.
The outstanding amount of quoted shares issued by euro area residents totalled EUR 4,349 billion at the end of September 2010. Compared with EUR 4,214 billion at the end of September 2009, this represents an annual increase of 3.2% in the value of the stock of quoted shares in September 2010, up from 2.0% in August.
