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Description of chart 5 – Canadian direct investment abroad

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The title of the graph is "Canadian direct investment abroad."
This is a column stacked chart.
There are in total 17 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at -10,000 and ends at 35,000 with ticks every 5,000 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "billions of dollars."
The units of the horizontal axis are quarters by year from third quarter 2008 to third quarter 2012.
The title of series 1 is " Mergers and acquisitions."
The minimum value is -1,639 occurring in second quarter 2011.
The maximum value is 20,775 occurring in third quarter 2009.
The title of series 2 is " Other flows."
The minimum value is -5,090 occurring in third quarter 2010.
The maximum value is 20,312 occurring in third quarter 2008.

Canadian direct investment abroad, billions of dollars
  Mergers and acquisitions Other flows
third quarter 2008 3,035 20,312
fourth quarter 2008 4,538 10,578
first quarter 2009 1,113 4,230
second quarter 2009 333 4,960
third quarter 2009 20,775 7,963
fourth quarter 2009 3,844 2,050
first quarter 2010 -245 -2,655
second quarter 2010 2,365 7,468
third quarter 2010 6,251 -5,090
fourth quarter 2010 16,392 11,285
first quarter 2011 5,606 6,090
second quarter 2011 -1,639 4,970
third quarter 2011 8,523 9,751
fourth quarter 2011 3,527 12,498
first quarter 2012 4,944 3,636
second quarter 2012 3,555 -1,457
third quarter 2012 9,571 9,506