Number: 98-950
Title: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE DATA AND CURRENT ISSUES
Authors: James K. Jackson, Economics Division 
Abstract: Foreign investors poured record amounts (in nominal terms) of funds into U.S. businesses and real estate in 1998 and 1999, continuing the expansion that began in 1993. Europeans as a whole are the largest foreign direct investors, both in terms of annual investments and in terms of their cumulative holdings of investments in the United States.
Pages: 6
Date: Updated June 1, 2000