Net foreign investment

and insurance, manufacturing, real estate, construction, and accommodation and food service activities.

usual monthly volatility in data, which can be lumpy depending on the size of individual projects in a particular month, Rajiv Biswas, Markit, told TheManilaTimes.

10-month tally

Biswas noted a positive aspect

- - pany borrowings which increased by 34.9 percent to $3.93 billion from $2.9 billion.

expanded by 9.3 percent to $ 1.67 billion, with gross placements of $ 1.94 billion, which more than offset the withdrawals of $ 272 million.

- ments came mostly from Japan, Singapore, the United States, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Reinvested earnings totaled $ 605 million during the 10- month period.

- - to other Southeast Asian na- tions such as Indonesia, which - lion in 2015 and $21 billion in while Vietnam achieved an esti Biswas noted.

- pines over the medium- term significantly by attracting foreign multinationals to build new manufacturing facilities and invest in infrastructure projects in the