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LatinNews Daily - 19 February 2020
In brief: Mexico’s FDI up in 2019
* Mexico’s economy ministry (SE) has released new figures which show foreign direct investment (FDI) to Mexico totalled US$32.9bn in 2019, up 4.2% on 2018. According to an SE press release, the manufacturing sector attracted 47.2% of FDI followed by financial services & insurance (15.3%); trade (9.7%); mass media (5.5%); and mining (5.5%). As regards sources of FDI, the US accounted for 36.8% of the total followed by Spain (12.1%), Canada (9.7%), Germany (9.2%), and Italy (4.5%).
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