They can be viewed and printed using the Acrobat Reader 3.0 program. Debt securities are negotiable and traded on secondary markets. They do not grant the holder any ownership rights in the issuing unit. Money market paper and, in principle, private placements are included in the debt securities statistics. The amount outstanding is the stock of securities at the end of the period.
Net issues are gross issues minus redemptions during the same period.
In principle, they correspond to the change in amounts outstanding between two periods, though differences may arise from valuation changes, reclassifications and other adjustments during the periods. The time series are updated monthly. The monthly euro area debt securities issues statistics are published in Table 3.5 and Table 3.6 of the Euro area statistics section of the ECB Monthly Bulletin. Euro area securities statistics cover issues by entities resident in the euro area. Issues by foreign-owned entities located in the euro area are classified as issues by euro area residents .