Economic Conditions and Capital Management for 2026

Expenses by foreign direct investors to get, establish, or expand U.S. services totaled $232.2 billion in 2025, according to preliminary statistics launched today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Expenses increased $76.8 billion, or 49.5 percent, from 2024 levels. As in previous years, acquisitions of existing U.S. businesses accounted for the majority of the expenses.

services were $4.6 billion, and expenditures to broaden existing foreign-owned services were $9.2 billion. Planned overall expenditures, that include both first-year and scheduled future expenditures, were $284.5 billion. Employment in 2025 at recently obtained, developed, or broadened foreign-owned businesses in the United States was 213,100 staff members. By industry, expenditures for new direct financial investment were biggest in publishing markets ($50.7 billion), followed by chemicals manufacturing ($45.4 billion) and plastics and rubber products manufacturing ($19.0 billion).

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The country with the largest financial investment was Japan ($50.5 billion), followed by Germany ($26.7 billion) and Canada ($23.5 billion).1 By region, Europe contributed the most new investment, $116.6 billion, or 50.2 percent of all brand-new financial investment in 2025. Asia and Pacific was the second-largest investing area, with $71.9 billion in expenditures.

company or to broaden an existing foreign-owned U.S. businesswere $13.8 billion in 2025. By market, greenfield expenditures were biggest in transport and warehousing ($3.6 billion), computer systems and electronics items manufacturing ($2.0 billion), and chemicals manufacturing ($1.8 billion). By area, financiers from Asia and Pacific contributed the highest dollar value of greenfield expenditures ($8.3 billion), led by Australia ($3.0 billion), South Korea ($2.2 billion), and Japan ($1.7 billion).

Planned overall expenditures for greenfield investment initiated in 2025, that include both first-year and scheduled future expenditures, were $66.1 billion. In 2025, present employment of gotten enterprises was 211,700. Overall planned employment, which consists of the current work of obtained business, the planned work of freshly established company enterprises when totally operational, and the prepared employment associated with expansions, was 232,400. By industry, plastics and rubber parts making accounted for the biggest variety of present staff members (21,800), followed by transport equipment manufacturing (17,300) and main and made metals producing (16,400).

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California (37,200) was the state with the largest present employment resulting from brand-new financial investment, followed by Illinois (17,600) and Texas (16,500).

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