# United Kingdom INS: COM: REAL: Corporate securities: & overseas (ended 2018) ()

United Kingdom INS: COM: REAL: Corporate securities: & overseas (ended 2018) () was up 25.3% year on year in Q4 2018, compared with 40.9% in Q3 2018.
The level stood at 105,766 £m.
That is the lowest reading since Q4 2017.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from −27.6% (Q1 2016) to 40.9% (Q3 2018), averaging 2.3%.

- Source agency: UK Office for National Statistics
- Makrognosis code: `UK.INSTINVEST.Q.NSA.ITEM-RAWS.MEASURE-COMMERCIAL.SECTOR-INSURANCE`
- Frequency: quarterly
- Units: £m
- Coverage: 1980-01-01 to 2018-10-01 (156 observations)
- Page: https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/data/united-kingdom/ins-com-real-corporate-securities-and-overseas-ended-2018

## Recent data

| Period | Value | Y/Y % |
|---|---:|---:|
| Q4 2018 | 105,766 £m | 25.3 |
| Q3 2018 | 97,168 £m | 40.9 |
| Q2 2018 | 106,182 £m | 26.8 |
| Q1 2018 | 114,347 £m | 30.1 |
| Q4 2017 | 84,380 £m | 8.8 |
| Q3 2017 | 68,948 £m | 4.6 |
| Q2 2017 | 83,733 £m | 2.1 |
| Q1 2017 | 87,877 £m | 30.2 |
| Q4 2016 | 77,578 £m | −21.1 |
| Q3 2016 | 65,904 £m | −23.0 |
| Q2 2016 | 81,996 £m | −7.6 |
| Q1 2016 | 67,469 £m | −27.6 |
| Q4 2015 | 98,318 £m | 7.3 |
| Q3 2015 | 85,579 £m | 17.4 |
| Q2 2015 | 88,750 £m | −2.4 |
| Q1 2015 | 93,145 £m | −5.5 |
| Q4 2014 | 91,661 £m | 9.6 |
| Q3 2014 | 72,925 £m | −9.2 |
| Q2 2014 | 90,976 £m | 3.8 |
| Q1 2014 | 98,556 £m | 9.0 |
| Q4 2013 | 83,637 £m | −4.7 |
| Q3 2013 | 80,339 £m | 7.2 |
| Q2 2013 | 87,662 £m | 11.0 |
| Q1 2013 | 90,456 £m | 4.0 |

## API

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

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