The flow of Chinese investment overseas and investment in China by foreign multinationals will, if history is a guide, spur still more trade between China and others.
Thailand is an attractive destination for overseas investment, and foreign companies, particularly Japanese ones fleeing a strong yen, have been badly disrupted.
As major clubs continue to grow commercially with overseas tours and increased foreign investment, they risk alienating themselves domestically from the leagues that they are supposed to be tied the closest to.
The surge in share prices on Wall Street over the past three years has lured in foreign investors and reduced overseas investment by Americans, thereby boosting the dollar.
The government has so far attracted 170 applicants, believed to be mostly from China, to a new program to develop foreign investment by offering overseas millionaires the right of residency in return for a portion of their wealth.
U.K. Prime Minister Cameron called on India to further open sectors such as insurance, banking and retail to overseas investment and to make it easier for foreign companies to do business there.
Since restrictions on foreign investment were lifted, plenty of overseas investors have come to Seoul to look at possible opportunities.
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Worse trouble has been staved off by seven years of budget restraint, large foreign-exchange reserves and a hefty overseas investment portfolio.
He reiterated the government will stick to its fiscal correction roadmap--of reducing the fiscal deficit to 3% of gross domestic product by March 2017--and that it was also reviewing its foreign direct investment policy to attract more overseas investors.
The market is buoyant in Bali, seeing both domestic and foreign investment, with Australians making up roughly half of overseas buyers.
Although the idea was promptly dismissed, this has created jitters overseas and amongst locals worried about the effects of such action on foreign investment.
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Since September, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government has taken several measures such as easing foreign investment restrictions in retail and civil aviation to attract overseas capital and boost growth.
It eased foreign investment restrictions in retail and civil aviation to attract overseas capital, and set up a panel of ministers to clear large industrial projects caught in bureaucratic red-tape.
Blatter, who is concerned at the fate of such clubs should the economic downturn affect foreign owners, met EU lawmakers on Monday to discuss overseas investment in football, among other issues.
The airline is the first to seek Indian government approval after foreign direct investment rules were relaxed last September to allow overseas carriers to own up to 49% stakes in a local airline ventures.
This allowed the new business, once local-government approval was obtained in China, to accept foreign private-equity money invested into the overseas holding company, while abiding by the letter of Beijing's restrictions on foreign investment in domestic enterprises.
AirAsia's investment proposal is the first by an overseas airline after India's government in September allowed foreign carriers to hold stakes of up to 49% in local airlines.
This is especially true of the overseas Chinese (including those in Hong Kong and Taiwan), who handle some 70% of foreign direct investment into China.
The decision to welcome foreign retailers had sent a signal that after years of procrastinating, India was finally serious about attracting overseas investment.
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