Mexico receives $13.4 bn in foreign investment
November 25th, 2011 - 10:55 am ICT by IANSMexico City, Nov 25 (IANS/EFE) Mexico attracted $13.4 billion in foreign direct investment during the first nine months of 2011, down 6.5 percent from the same period of last year, the Economy Secretariat said.
In the third quarter (July-September), FDI flows came in at just under $2.6 billion.
The FDI figure for all of 2010 was revised upward to $19.8 billion, an 11.6 percent increase over the previously reported figure, the secretariat said.
All of the data released Wednesday is preliminary and subject to later revision by the companies responsible for the FDI, the secretariat said.
The investment received from January to September 2011 came from 3,558 companies with foreign capital.
The FDI flows were concentrated in the manufacturing sector and the financial services and insurance sector, which accounted for 41.5 percent and 18.3 percent of the total, respectively, while the rest went to retail and wholesale, mass media, construction, mining and other sectors.
By country, the main sources of FDI were the US, with 65.5 percent of the total, followed by Spain (13.2 percent), Switzerland (9.4 percent), Japan (2.6 percent) and Canada (1.4 percent).
–IANS/EFE
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