SIFMA issued its Research Quarterly for the fourth quarter and full year of 2015 today. The report notes long-term securities issuance totaled $1.48 trillion in 4Q'15, an 8.5 percent decline from $1.62 trillion in 3Q'15 and a 4.9 percent decrease year-over-year (y-o-y) from $1.56 trillion in 4Q'14. Issuance fell quarter-over-quarter (q-o-q) across all asset classes with mortgage-backed, asset-backed and equity recording the largest percentage declines. For full year 2015, long-term issuance totaled $6.7 trillion, an increase of 7.1 percent from $6.3 trillion in 2014. The annual increase was driven primarily by increase in mortgage-related and corporate bond issuance.
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