OREANDA-NEWS. January 14, 2009. According to the National Bank of Moldova, net foreign direct investments (including the outflow of the capital) have increased by 1,8 times - from US 297.76 million up to US 553.58 million.

For nine months of 2008, amount of investments in equity totaled US 338.06 million, increasing by 2.3 times, in the banking sector -by 2.5 times- from US 9.5 million up to US 24.07 million and in other sectors-by 32.7% - from US 43.4 million up to US 57.6 million.

The volume of reinvested profit grew by 23.1% - from US62.77 million up to US 77.29 million. According to NBM, as of late September 2008, total direct foreign investments into the economy of Moldova amounted to US 2 billion 419.05 million.

The largest investors in the Moldovan economy were: Russia (10.8%), USA (8,6%), Italy (8.5%), France (6.3%), Netherlands (6.1%), Romania (5.9%), Spain (5.8%), Germany (5, 5%), Cyprus (4.6%) and Switzerland (2.8%).