TheCityUK Reveals Value Outstanding in Global Bond Market in New Report

LONDON, July 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

TheCityUK (http://www.thecityuk.com/), the independent body promoting UK financial services on a world scale, has launched the Bond Markets 2011 report, revealing the global value outstanding of bonds.

Outstanding bonds totalled a record $95 trillion at the end of 2010, up 5% on the previous year. Domestic bonds accounted for 70% of the total and international bonds for the remainder.

As a proportion of global GDP, the bond market increased to 130% in 2010 from 119% in 2008 and 80% a decade earlier. The considerable growth means that at the end of 2010 it was much larger than the global equity market which had a market capitalisation of around $55 trillion. Growth of the market since the start of the economic slowdown was largely a result of an increase in issuance by governments, with government bonds accounting for 43% of the value outstanding at the end of 2010, up from 39% a year earlier.

The corporate bond market remained strong in 2010 following on from the rally in 2009. Book-runners' deal volume from global debt capital markets totalled $6.05 trillion in 2010, down 2% from the previous year but nearly 40% up on the volume two years earlier.

Marko Maslakovic, Senior Manager, Economic Research at TheCityUK, said: "The slow pace of book-runners deal volume in Europe during 2010, partly a result of the government finance crisis in some countries, was largely offset by an increase in activity in the US. Europe's corporate bond markets remain less developed than in the US, but are likely to expand as companies diversify sources of funding."

Download the full report at http://www.thecityuk.com/assets/Uploads/BondMarkets2011.pdf

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