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International investment scenario marginally improves
By TII News Service
Dec 03, 2010 , New Delhi |
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THE OECD in its
latest Investment News Bulletin has stated that international investment
remained flat well into the fourth quarter of 2010, but nonetheless represented
an improvement over two years of steep declines in 2008 and 2009.
The OECD projects that global Foreign Direct Investment flows will decline by
around 8% in 2010, a markedly better performance over the 19% drop in FDI flows
seen in 2008 and the 43% decline in 2009.
If current trends hold, international M&A investment – an important
component of FDI - will hover around US$ 670 billion in 2010, an increase of
6% over 2009. This would be the first increase in international M&A activity
since 2007, following declines of 21% in 2008 and 53% in 2009, according
to the report.
Lacking any clear momentum of its own, international investment in 2011 will
be particularly sensitive to the strength of the economic recovery across the
global economy, the OECD said. It will also be sensitive to whether G20 countries
can avoid investment protectionism or any further conflict over foreign exchange
policies, which could create uncertainty over the pricing of international assets
and the valuation of expected future income from these assets.
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