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Encyclopedia > International investment position

A country's international investment position is the result of its "financial account" in the balance of payments. The "financial account" record the transaction of things that are not imports/exports, but things that are in and stay in the country. For example stock of companies, real estate etc.


External links

  • Grant's Online - Inflation, ho! (a primer on deflation) - May 23, 2003 (http://www.grantspub.com/articles/inflation/) (see "net international investment position of the United States")

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The Impact of Exchange Rate Movements on U.S. Foreign Debt - Federal Reserve Bank of New York (4271 words)
Although the net international investment position of the United States has fallen throughout the 1982-2001 period, the rate of the decline has increased sharply in recent years (Table 1).
This mechanical valuation effect accounts for nearly one-third of the deterioration of the net international investment position since the end of 1999—a sharp contrast with the past when valuation effects were either negligible or modestly advantageous.
The $50 billion average annual decline in the net international investment position between 1982 and 1990 (Table 1) can be decomposed into a $92 billion worsening from financial flows and a $42 billion improvement from valuation changes.
International Investment: Information from Answers.com (3339 words)
Investment in the United States by Japanese companies is, to some extent, a function of the trade imbalances between the two nations and of the U.S. government's consequent pressure on Japan to do something to reduce the bilateral trade deficit.
Portfolio investment refers to investments in foreign countries that are withdrawable at short notice, such as investment in foreign stocks and bonds.
When trading in foreign currencies began, it was as an adjunct to the international trade transaction in goods and services— banks and firms bought and sold currencies to complete the export or import transaction or to hedge the exposure to fluctuations in the exchange rates in the currencies of interest in the trade transaction.
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