Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is direct investment into production in a country by a company located in another country, either by buying a company in the country or by expanding operations of an existing business in the country.
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7% in April to $8.4 billion, according to reports Tuesday that cited China's Ministry of Commerce. That was the sixth straight month of declines in investment, Dow Jones Newswires reported, although the pace slowed from March's 6.1% drop.Copyright © 2012 MarketWatch, Inc....Foreign direct investment in China fell for the fifth straight month in March, hit by the European debt crisis, a sluggish global economy and a weakening domestic pr...
Many of the world's industrialized countries have scrambled to cut their corporate tax rates to stay competitive in the face of the economic crisis. The United State...
China has bumped up the annual long-term foreign debt quota allocated to foreign banks to $24 billion, allowing them to bring more money into the country as growth s...
European shares traded near eight-month highs on Thursday as a brighter global economic outlook fueled investor risk appetite, underpinning the dollar and reducing t...
HYDERABAD, India -( Dow Jones )- Some of the world's biggest aircraft makers gathering at an air show in India Wednesday expressed concern about the near-term outloo...
Author Gordon Chang discusses why, despite increased pay, China’s workforce will began to level off and decline by 2016.
Inflows of foreign direct investment to China eased 0.3% in January from a year earlier, marking the third-straight month of declines, as Europe cut back on its rate...
The International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for China's economic growth this year to 8.25% from 9.0% projected in September, citing the threat of weakening expo...
India's Supreme Court Thursday ordered cancellation of mobile-telecom-service licenses issued without auction after January 2008, raising uncertainty over billions o...
Foreign direct investment into South Africa more than tripled last year, reversing a sharp drop in 2010, but inflows into Africa as a whole fell, according to prelim...
Foreign direct investment in China fell in December, marking the second-straight month of declines from compared to year-earlier levels. The investment inflows from ...
China's economic growth could be slowing further as data on Thursday showed the first year-on-year drop in foreign direct investment in 28 months and a fresh fall in...
Argentina has defied skeptics by posting almost a decade of rapid growth without significant foreign investment. But the South American country may soon wish it had ...
Foreign direct investment in Africa has grown rapidly over the last eight years, though the continent still captures only a small chunk of global FDI activity, Ernst...
President Cristina Kirchner's nationalization of oil company YPF SA (YPF, YPFD.BA) has exacerbated concerns about Argentina's energy industry and its ability to deve...
Colombian stocks rose for a third straight session Friday, closing at their highest level in 13 months after Colombia's largest financial holding firm, Grupo Sura (G...
President Cristina Kirchner's nationalization of oil company YPF SA (YPF, YPFD.BA) has exacerbated concerns about Argentina's energy industry and its ability to deve...
Colombian stocks climbed Thursday, driven by a rise in global prices for oil that pushed up heavily traded shares of oil firms Ecopetrol (ECOPETROL.BO, EC) and Pacif...
India's environmental and tribal activists have scored another victory over companies looking to start mining and related projects in the mineral-rich and densely fo...
