foreign purchases

Brazil imposed a 2% tax on foreign purchases of equities and bonds in an attempt to stop its currency, the real, from rising further.

Brazil now imposes a tax of 6% on foreign purchases of its bonds, as well as a smaller tax on bets against the dollar on the futures market.

A trawl through foreign purchases of British firms in recent years suggests that the balance is by no means all negative.

More net foreign purchases is exactly the same as a wider trade deficit (or, more technically, a wider current account deficit).

Meanwhile, with many sovereign wealth funds and other government capital being deployed domestically, there may be fewer foreign purchases.

The phrase has been given a new twist in recent months in an intensifying debate about foreign purchases of Chinese companies.

Any net increase in foreign purchases of euro-denominated local government bonds has an impact far beyond short-term funding.

Rather than increasing its exports to match its prodigious imports, America is squeezing its foreign purchases.

And as I pointed out last week, foreign purchases of U. S. securities - with the notable exception of Treasurys - is starting to slow.

Such concerns are now built into the regulatory framework governing foreign purchases of U. S. assets.

India's corporate shoppers, too, may sometimes show their foreign purchases too much respect.

The second measure was not as widely reported, and involved an increase on the tax on foreign purchases by Brazilian citizens.

Like other emerging economies, Brazil fought back by imposing taxes and other restrictions on foreign purchases of local securities.

Brazil recently doubled a tax on foreign purchases of its domestic debt.

Like other emerging economies it fought back by imposing taxes and other restrictions on foreign purchases of local securities.

Remember that foreign purchases of the dollar force up the value of the dollar, and so undermine U. S. manufacturers.

The central bank has gone to great lengths to maintain its foreign purchases.

By one estimate, 60% of India's 200 leading companies are looking to invest this loot in foreign purchases.

The US Treasury said net foreign purchases of long-term securities was $68. 6bn in September after purchases of $58bn in August.

As economists have long notedChina uses private banks in London and Hong Kong to conduct some of its foreign purchases.

His response has been to triple a tax on foreign purchases of Brazilian bonds.

In the past decade 60% of the foreign purchases by these developing-country multinationals have been of companies in the rich world;