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Description of chart 2 – Canadian portfolio investment in foreign securities

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The title of the graph is "Canadian portfolio investment in foreign securities."
This is a column stacked chart.
There are in total 49 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at -8,000 and ends at 10,000 with ticks every 2,000 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "billions of dollars."
The units of the horizontal axis are months by year from November 2008 to November 2012.
The title of series 1 is " Debt securities."
The minimum value is -5,184 occurring in January 2010.
The maximum value is 6,169 occurring in November 2012.
The title of series 2 is " Equity and investment fund shares."
The minimum value is -1,858 occurring in October 2009.
The maximum value is 6,312 occurring in March 2012.

Canadian portfolio investment in foreign securities, billions of dollars
  Debt securities Equity and investment fund shares
November 2008 -3,636 1,094
December 2008 -4,918 -836
January 2009 73 4,192
February 2009 362 2,643
March 2009 2,208 3,961
April 2009 374 1,107
May 2009 244 -1,018
June 2009 -2,607 3,813
July 2009 -1,416 943
August 2009 -2,821 2,686
September 2009 -3,575 -1,096
October 2009 -2,176 -1,858
November 2009 2,612 -582
December 2009 -464 1,128
January 2010 -5,184 -271
February 2010 2,553 1,776
March 2010 1,526 4,780
April 2010 -427 594
May 2010 -4,974 2,039
June 2010 1,960 2,070
July 2010 -942 -529
August 2010 897 2,507
September 2010 1,960 3,239
October 2010 860 -927
November 2010 3,196 -315
December 2010 -363 -1,574
January 2011 207 1,724
February 2011 2,329 533
March 2011 -3,043 1,409
April 2011 -2,925 339
May 2011 -2,518 6,221
June 2011 -2,894 3,785
July 2011 -973 2,952
August 2011 -1,891 4,387
September 2011 -10 939
October 2011 1,099 938
November 2011 1,271 1,649
December 2011 1,425 1,379
January 2012 -3,038 3,941
February 2012 -1,935 -230
March 2012 1,397 6,312
April 2012 -3,267 612
May 2012 -402 1,748
June 2012 4,159 -36
July 2012 2,276 2,285
August 2012 -1,141 -542
September 2012 1,577 4,451
October 2012 3,185 178
November 2012 6,169 1,644