Direct inward foreign investment experienced a large anomalous and record breaking peak in 2016, the year Brexit was essentially announced. The total size of th

Direct inward foreign investment experienced a large anomalous and record breaking peak in 2016, the year Brexit was essentially announced. The total size of this investment was almost half the FDI of the EU for that year. [1] Provisional quarterly estimates suggest that the downward trend in net FDI earnings ended in 2017, recording the first annual increase since 2011. [2] 1: https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/wir2018_en.pdf https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/wir2018_en.pdf (Annex, table 1) 2: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/articles/ukforeigndirectinvestmenttrendsandanalysis/july2018 https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpay...