Description of chart 4 – Foreign direct investment

The title of the graph is "Foreign direct investment."
This is a column clustered chart.
There are in total 21 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at -10 and ends at 30 with ticks every 10 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 2013.
The title of series 1 is " Canadian direct investment abroad."
The minimum value is -2.901 occurring in first quarter 2010.
The maximum value is 28.738 occurring in third quarter 2009.
The title of series 2 is " Foreign direct investment in Canada."
The minimum value is -6.691 occurring in third quarter 2010.
The maximum value is 22.819 occurring in third quarter 2008.

Foreign direct investment, billions of dollars
  Canadian direct investment abroad Foreign direct investment in Canada
third quarter 2008 23.347 22.819
fourth quarter 2008 15.116 13.861
first quarter 2009 5.343 1.27
second quarter 2009 5.293 0.195
third quarter 2009 28.738 15.79
fourth quarter 2009 5.894 8.693
first quarter 2010 -2.901 11.645
second quarter 2010 9.833 10.121
third quarter 2010 1.161 -6.691
fourth quarter 2010 27.677 14.182
first quarter 2011 12.543 12.034
second quarter 2011 3.765 17.841
third quarter 2011 18.799 8.083
fourth quarter 2011 16.495 1.296
first quarter 2012 9.81 16.497
second quarter 2012 5.227 5.096
third quarter 2012 25.008 8.114
fourth quarter 2012 15.357 13.284
first quarter 2013 5.59 20.231
second quarter 2013 7.401 18.418
third quarter 2013 20.655 10.427