Foreign investors withdrew their money from America.

Similarly, long term foreign investors have had reason to pause.

Foreign investors were panicking over the prospect that Brazil would fail to roll over its foreign debts.

Foreign investors have responded by pouring resources into the country.

Russian and foreign investors alike were duped by the Kremlin's debt pyramid schemes.

In both countries, foreign investors are opening gins and assisting growers.

Nominal bonds are not well hedged against inflation, and, over the long run, assets that are claims to cash without effective control are highly vulnerable to financial vultures. Prudent foreign government and private investors would find some way to diversify.

Prudent foreign government and private investors would find some way to diversify.

Foreign investors often complain that their property rights go unprotected.

Furthermore, foreign investors do not want to deal with diplomats or civil servants.

These countries have opened their markets to foreign investors and foreign investors are responding eagerly.

And they worry that foreign and domestic investors will be discouraged by the new labor rules.

Islamic banking, for example, may soon be introduced, though some local and foreign investors argue that sharia regulations could drive away much needed foreign investment.

Foreign investors will be able to invest in an African labor force no longer shattered by disease.

Foreign investors, who understand little about macroeconomics and long term growth, were delighted with Argentina s new found stability.

There is also a risk that foreign investors, who already are starting to like Mexico, might come to love it a little too much.

Fearing unrest, tourists and foreign investors were staying away, so there were no jobs to be had.

Foreign investors may decide to cut back financing America's budget and current account deficits on favorable terms.

Even so, not only foreign investors and local big businesses are worried by his rise in opinion polls.

Foreign investors report that their return on investment in Africa is higher than in any other emerging region.

Although individual foreign investors can sell the dollar securities that they own, they can only sell them to other foreign investors. As long as the US has a current account deficit, the stock of foreign owned claims on the US economy must rise.

Although individual foreign investors can sell the dollar securities that they own, they can only sell them to other foreign investors.

One might think that foreign investors would quake in terror at these terms and shy away from dollar denominated assets.

Moreover, foreign investment in emerging markets shifted after 1994 to factories, real estate, service industries, and so forth.

The rise in food prices is leading to a land grab, as powerful politicians sell foreign investors massive tracts of farmland, brushing aside the traditional land rights of poor smallholders. Foreign investors hope to use large mechanized farms to produce output for export, leaving little or nothing for the local populations.

(Nationalization does not, of course, necessarily mean expropriation without appropriate compensation.) Perhaps surprising for modern politicians, Morales took his words seriously.

As with many privatizations elsewhere, there are questions as to whether the foreign investors have kept their side of the bargain.

The hazard struck after 1996, when foreign private investors fled emerging markets even faster than they had flooded them.

Foreign investors hope to use large mechanized farms to produce output for export, leaving little or nothing for the local populations.

But he had made it equally clear that he did not intend to expropriate the property of energy firms he wanted foreign investors to stay.

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At the time, there were 245 such trust companies, which had such a poor record of repayment that overseas investors were beginning to shun China entirely.

Foreign investors are already reshuffling their portfolios, moving into euros, pounds, and even emerging market currencies like the Brazilian real and the South African rand.

Moreover, balkanization of economic activity, banking systems, and public debt markets continues, as foreign investors flee the eurozone periphery and seek safety in the core. Private and public debt levels are high and possibly unsustainable.

Foreign banks are cutting credit.

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Learning foreign languages is boring.

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It's useful to study foreign languages.

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Italian savers, for example, still hold a significant volume of foreign assets (including German bonds), and foreign investors still hold a sizeable share of Italian government bonds. But interest rates on longer term Italian government bonds (and Italian private sector borrowing costs) are about 250 basis points higher than those on the German equivalents (this is the risk premium).