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

United Kingdom INS: COM: ACQ: Overseas corporate securities: Ordinary shares (ended 2018) () was up 65.3% year on year in Q4 2018, compared with 79.2% in Q3 2018.
The level stood at 16,788 £m.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from −58.6% (Q3 2016) to 79.2% (Q3 2018), averaging 0.06%.

- Source agency: UK Office for National Statistics
- Makrognosis code: `UK.INSTINVEST.Q.NSA.ITEM-RAVW.MEASURE-COMMERCIAL.SECTOR-INSURANCE`
- Frequency: quarterly
- Units: £m
- Coverage: 1963-01-01 to 2018-10-01 (224 observations)
- Page: https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/data/united-kingdom/ins-com-acq-overseas-corporate-securities-ordinary-shares-ended-2018

## Recent data

| Period | Value | Y/Y % |
|---|---:|---:|
| Q4 2018 | 16,788 £m | 65.3 |
| Q3 2018 | 19,042 £m | 79.2 |
| Q2 2018 | 12,850 £m | 14.6 |
| Q1 2018 | 16,876 £m | 40.4 |
| Q4 2017 | 10,155 £m | −2.7 |
| Q3 2017 | 10,624 £m | 46.6 |
| Q2 2017 | 11,210 £m | −19.0 |
| Q1 2017 | 12,016 £m | 9.9 |
| Q4 2016 | 10,440 £m | −37.5 |
| Q3 2016 | 7,247.0 £m | −58.6 |
| Q2 2016 | 13,835 £m | −19.2 |
| Q1 2016 | 10,931 £m | −49.9 |
| Q4 2015 | 16,717 £m | 7.0 |
| Q3 2015 | 17,510 £m | 45.3 |
| Q2 2015 | 17,119 £m | −9.0 |
| Q1 2015 | 21,823 £m | 22.4 |
| Q4 2014 | 15,623 £m | 1.7 |
| Q3 2014 | 12,054 £m | −36.3 |
| Q2 2014 | 18,809 £m | −19.2 |
| Q1 2014 | 17,830 £m | −18.7 |
| Q4 2013 | 15,362 £m | 3.8 |
| Q3 2013 | 18,917 £m | 34.6 |
| Q2 2013 | 23,265 £m | 31.0 |
| Q1 2013 | 21,918 £m | 23.8 |

## API

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

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