The 2026 GCC Economic Forecast

Expenses by foreign direct investors to acquire, establish, or broaden U.S. companies totaled $232.2 billion in 2025, according to preliminary statistics released 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. organizations represented most of the expenditures.

companies were $4.6 billion, and expenditures to broaden existing foreign-owned businesses were $9.2 billion. Planned total expenses, which consist of both first-year and organized future expenses, were $284.5 billion. Employment in 2025 at recently gotten, developed, or broadened foreign-owned services in the United States was 213,100 employees. By market, expenditures for new direct investment were biggest in publishing industries ($50.7 billion), followed by chemicals producing ($45.4 billion) and plastics and rubber products manufacturing ($19.0 billion).

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

service or to expand 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), computers and electronic devices products production ($2.0 billion), and chemicals manufacturing ($1.8 billion). By area, investors from Asia and Pacific contributed the highest dollar worth of greenfield expenses ($8.3 billion), led by Australia ($3.0 billion), South Korea ($2.2 billion), and Japan ($1.7 billion).

Planned total expenditures for greenfield financial investment started in 2025, that include both first-year and scheduled future expenses, were $66.1 billion. In 2025, existing work of gotten business was 211,700. Overall prepared employment, which includes the present work of obtained business, the planned work of freshly developed service enterprises when completely operational, and the prepared work associated with growths, was 232,400. By market, plastics and rubber parts manufacturing represented the largest variety of current workers (21,800), followed by transportation equipment production (17,300) and main and made metals manufacturing (16,400).

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

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1. Based on a comparison of the S&P 500 Index to the Bloomberg US Convertible Money Pay Bond > $250mn Index. The S&P 500 is a stock exchange index weighted by market capitalization that is made up of 500 of the biggest public business in the United States. The Bloomberg US Convertible Cash Pay Bond > $250mn Index tracks the performance of US dollar-denominated cash-pay convertible securities with minimum amounts outstanding of at least $250 million.

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