Table 1
Canada's international transactions in securities
| November 2017 |
December 2017 |
January 2018 |
2016 | 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | millions of dollars | |
| Foreign investment in Canadian securities | 19,230 | -1,538 | 5,683 | 171,766 | 189,406 |
| Debt securities | 19,607 | -3,936 | 2,777 | 119,288 | 132,650 |
| Money market instruments | 2,318 | 401 | 6,119 | 3,105 | -15,729 |
| Governments | 850 | 858 | -1,833 | -3,963 | -14,510 |
| Federal government | 267 | -1,267 | -1,338 | -3,198 | -7,312 |
| Other governments | 583 | 2,125 | -494 | -767 | -7,197 |
| Corporations | 1,468 | -458 | 7,952 | 7,071 | -1,219 |
| Government business enterprises | -446 | -40 | 1,301 | -349 | -2,105 |
| Private corporations | 1,914 | -417 | 6,651 | 7,422 | 887 |
| Bonds | 17,289 | -4,337 | -3,342 | 116,183 | 148,378 |
| Governments | 9,885 | -4,826 | -2,978 | 31,678 | 52,519 |
| Federal government | 8,827 | -625 | -1,558 | 24,962 | 28,084 |
| Other governments | 1,058 | -4,201 | -1,420 | 6,715 | 24,434 |
| Corporations | 7,404 | 489 | -364 | 84,506 | 95,859 |
| Government business enterprises | 1,280 | -5,683 | -255 | 7,686 | 10,581 |
| Private corporations | 6,123 | 6,171 | -109 | 76,820 | 85,277 |
| Equity and investment fund shares | -377 | 2,399 | 2,906 | 52,477 | 56,756 |
| Shares | -288 | 2,493 | 2,536 | 52,334 | 56,716 |
| Investment fund shares | -89 | -95 | 369 | 143 | 40 |
| Canadian investment in foreign securities | -4,615 | 21,991 | 13,252 | 13,791 | 84,658 |
| Debt securities | -385 | 2,172 | 1,648 | -6,213 | 16,030 |
| Money market instruments | -15 | 148 | -151 | -1,604 | 3,766 |
| Bonds | -370 | 2,024 | 1,800 | -4,611 | 12,264 |
| Equity and investment fund shares | -4,230 | 19,818 | 11,604 | 20,005 | 68,628 |
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