This section allows cross-market comparisons.
Bond Market Data
Domestic Financing Profile
Data vary across markets. For details download spreadsheet.
Domestic Financing Profile

Total domestic financing equals the sum of total domestic credit provided by the banking sector, total local currency (LCY) bonds outstanding, and total equity outstanding. Percentage shares are computed to show the relative importance of each type of domestic financing.

Stock market capitalization is used as a proxy for total equity outstanding.
Data available:

Quarterly after Dec 2003.
Note on the Data:

1. Domestic credit provided by the banking sector is from the International Financial Statistics of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This includes claims by the banking sector on the central government, state and local governments, nonfinancial public enterprises, private sector, and other banking and nonbanking institutions. Data are provided on a gross basis, with the exception of claims on the central government, which are net. The banking sector includes monetary authorities, deposit money banks, and other banking institutions.

2. The total amount of LCY bonds outstanding is from the Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) International Financial Statistics (Securities Statistics, Table 16A and the local currency portion of Table 11).

3. Stock market capitalization (in USD) is sourced from the World Federation of Exchanges and includes only shares of domestic companies. Exchanges include the HKEx, Jakarta Stock Exchange, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Korea Exchange, Bursa Malaysia, Philippine Stock Exchange, Shanghai Stock Exchange, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Singapore Exchange, and Stock Exchange of Thailand.

4. End-of-period exchange rates are from Bloomberg, LP.