# United Kingdom INS: COM: ACQ: corporate securities: Ordinary shares (ended 2018) ()

United Kingdom INS: COM: ACQ: corporate securities: Ordinary shares (ended 2018) () was up 97.3% year on year in Q4 2018, compared with 63.7% in Q3 2018.
The level stood at 16,226 £m.
That is the highest reading since Q2 2013.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from −54.6% (Q4 2008) to 136.7% (Q2 2013), averaging 0.6%.

- Source agency: UK Office for National Statistics
- Makrognosis code: `UK.INSTINVEST.Q.NSA.ITEM-JF96.MEASURE-COMMERCIAL.SECTOR-INSURANCE`
- Frequency: quarterly
- Units: £m
- Coverage: 2000-01-01 to 2018-10-01 (76 observations)
- Page: https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/data/united-kingdom/ins-com-acq-corporate-securities-ordinary-shares-ended-2018

## Recent data

| Period | Value | Y/Y % |
|---|---:|---:|
| Q4 2018 | 16,226 £m | 97.3 |
| Q3 2018 | 10,463 £m | 63.7 |
| Q2 2018 | 6,168.0 £m | −29.4 |
| Q1 2018 | 7,861.0 £m | 38.4 |
| Q4 2017 | 8,223.0 £m | 21.8 |
| Q3 2017 | 6,393.0 £m | 57.3 |
| Q2 2017 | 8,733.0 £m | −18.9 |
| Q1 2017 | 5,680.0 £m | −21.3 |
| Q4 2016 | 6,750.0 £m | −10.7 |
| Q3 2016 | 4,064.0 £m | −47.6 |
| Q2 2016 | 10,771 £m | 13.0 |
| Q1 2016 | 7,214.0 £m | −50.8 |
| Q4 2015 | 7,562.0 £m | −43.4 |
| Q3 2015 | 7,751.0 £m | −22.8 |
| Q2 2015 | 9,530.0 £m | −16.9 |
| Q1 2015 | 14,660 £m | 0.6 |
| Q4 2014 | 13,361 £m | −1.3 |
| Q3 2014 | 10,044 £m | −23.1 |
| Q2 2014 | 11,468 £m | −42.1 |
| Q1 2014 | 14,568 £m | 5.7 |
| Q4 2013 | 13,536 £m | 60.6 |
| Q3 2013 | 13,055 £m | 57.1 |
| Q2 2013 | 19,820 £m | 136.7 |
| Q1 2013 | 13,786 £m | 65.3 |

## API

```
curl -H "X-API-Key: $MAKROGNOSIS_KEY" \
  "https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/UK.INSTINVEST.Q.NSA.ITEM-JF96.MEASURE-COMMERCIAL.SECTOR-INSURANCE"

# Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/UK.INSTINVEST.Q.NSA.ITEM-JF96.MEASURE-COMMERCIAL.SECTOR-INSURANCE",
                 headers={"X-API-Key": KEY})
obs = r.json()["observations"]
```