Canada: Foreign investment in Canadian securities totalled $20.8 billion in October
|"Foreign investment in Canadian securities totalled $20.8 billion in October, led by record acquisitions of Canadian bonds," the Statistics Canada announced on Monday.
Key highlights
Canadian investors increased their holdings of foreign securities by $16.5 billion, mainly purchases of US shares.
Since the beginning of the year, foreign acquisitions of Canadian securities have totalled $171.0 billion.
Nearly three-quarters of this was in instruments issued by Canadian private corporations; mainly bonds denominated in foreign currencies.
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