Canada: Foreign investment in Canadian securities totalled $20.8 billion in October

"Foreign investment in Canadian securities totalled $20.8 billion in October, led by record acquisitions of Canadian bonds," the Statistics Canada announced on Monday. 

Key highlights

Canadian investors increased their holdings of foreign securities by $16.5 billion, mainly purchases of US shares.

Since the beginning of the year, foreign acquisitions of Canadian securities have totalled $171.0 billion.

Nearly three-quarters of this was in instruments issued by Canadian private corporations; mainly bonds denominated in foreign currencies.