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BUSINESS, Page 51Business NotesINVESTMENTSThis Land Is Their Land
Like bargain-hungry shoppers rattling the racks at a
department-store sale, foreigners are stocking up on American
corporations and real estate. Last week the Commerce Department
reported that overseas investors spent $65 billion on U.S. assets
last year, up from $40.3 billion in 1987. The Government noted a
pronounced jump in large transactions: the number of foreign
investments worth more than $1 billion doubled from six to twelve.
As they have been throughout most of postwar U.S. history, the
British were the largest investors last year, plunking down $21.5
billion. In second place were the Japanese ($14.2 billion), ahead
of the Canadians ($10.4 billion). U.S. firms have been popular
targets partly because of the steady growth of the American economy
during the past six years. Another reason for their attractiveness
is the large and relatively homogeneous U.S. consumer market.
American investors still control more assets overseas ($330
billion) than foreign owners do in the U.S. ($304 billion), but
that advantage has been narrowing in recent years.