Washington, Feb 12: Cross-border holdings of equity and debt securities in 2001 reached USD 12.5 trillion in the 67 economies that participated in the international monetary Fund's latest coordinated portfolio investment survey. Of this, USD 5.1 trillion was in equity securities and USD 7.5 trillion in debt securities, an IMF press release said here today.
Eight countries, including US, UK and Japan were among both the top ten issuers and among the top ten holders of securities that were traded internationally.

Other countries to hold that distinction were Luxembourg, Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands, the release said.

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Together these economies accounted for about 65 per cent of cross-border holdings of equity and debt securities, and about 68 per cent of cross-border liabilities to non-residents in the form of non-residents' holdings of equities and debt securities.
The US, UK and Japan were the largest investing countries, accounting for 38 per cent of total cross-border holdings of securities.

The European Monetary Union accounted for 35 per cent of the crossborder holdings, it said.
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