July 11, 2025

New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, 2024

Expenditures by foreign direct investors to acquire, establish, or expand U.S. businesses totaled $151.0 billion in 2024, according to preliminary statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Expenditures decreased $24.9 billion, or 14.2 percent, from $176.0 billion (revised) in 2023 and were below the annual average of $277.2 billion for 2014–2023. As in previous years, acquisitions of existing U.S. businesses accounted for most of the expenditures.

Principal Federal Economic Indicators

Gross Domestic Product
Q1 2025 (3rd)
-0.5%
Personal Income
May 2025
-0.4%
International Trade in Goods and Services
May 2025
-$71.5 B
International Transactions
Q1 2025
-$450.2 B

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Real Personal Income for Metropolitan Areas, 2013

| The BEA Wire

Real personal income across all regions rose by an average of 0.8 percent in 2013. This growth rate reflects the year-over-year change in nominal personal income across all regions adjusted by the change in the national personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index. On a nominal basis, personal income across all regions grew an average of 2.0 percent in 2013. In 2013, the U.S. PCE price index grew 1.2 percent.

Real Personal Income for States and Metropolitan Areas, 2013

| News Release

Real personal income across all regions rose by an average of 0.8 percent in 2013. This growth rate reflects the year-over-year change in nominal personal income across all regions adjusted by the change in the national personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index. On a nominal basis, personal income across all regions grew an average of 2.0 percent in 2013. In 2013, the U.S. PCE price index grew 1.2 percent.

Value of U.S. Assets Increased More than U.S. Liabilities in First Quarter 2015

| The BEA Wire

The U.S. net international investment position was -$6,794.0 billion (preliminary) at the end of the first quarter of 2015 as the value of U.S. liabilities exceeded the value of U.S .assets. At the end of the fourth quarter of 2014, the net investment position -$7,019.7 billion (revised).

U.S. International Investment Position, 1st quarter 2015, Year 2014, and Annual Revisions

| News Release

First Quarter of 2015

The U.S. net international investment position at the end of the first quarter of 2015 was -$6,794.0 billion (preliminary) as the value of U.S. liabilities exceeded the value of U.S. assets (chart 1, table 1). At the end of the fourth quarter of 2014, the net investment position was -$7,019.7 billion (revised).

BEA to Release 2013 Statistics on Real Personal Income for States and Metro Areas July 1

| The BEA Wire

The Bureau of Economic Analysis will publish real personal income statistics for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and all metropolitan areas on Wednesday, July 1 at 8:30 a.m. eastern time.

The report provides annual statistics for 2013. These statistics use regional price parities in combination with the personal consumption expenditure price index to adjust BEA’s personal income data for differences in price levels across the…

Real Consumer Spending Rises in May

| The BEA Wire

Personal income increased 0.5 percent in May, the same increase as in April. Wages and salaries, the largest component of  personal income, rose 0.5 percent in May after rising 0.3 percent in April.

Current-dollar disposable personal income (DPI), after-tax income, increased 0.5 percent in May after rising 0.4 percent in April.

Real DPI, income adjusted for taxes and inflation, increased 0.2 percent in May…

Personal Income and Outlays, May 2015

| News Release

Personal income increased $79.0 billion, or 0.5 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI) increased $65.5 billion, or 0.5 percent, in May, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $105.9 billion, or 0.9 percent. In April, personal income increased $69.6 billion, or 0.5 percent, DPI increased $57.0 billion, or 0.4 percent, and PCE increased $8.5 billion, or 0.1 percent, based on…

First-Quarter GDP Revised Up

| The BEA Wire

Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased 0.2 percent in the first quarter of 2015, according to the “third” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The growth rate was revised up 0.5 percentage point from the “second” estimate released in May. In the fourth quarter of 2014, real GDP increased 2.2 percent.

Gross Domestic Product, 1st quarter 2015 (third estimate); Corporate Profits, 1st quarter 2015 (revised estimate)

| News Release

Real gross domestic product -- the value of the production of goods and services in the United States, adjusted for price changes -- decreased at an annual rate of 0.2 percent in the first quarter of 2015, according to the "third" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter, real GDP increased 2.2 percent. The GDP estimate released today is based on more complete source data than were available for…

Travel and Tourism Spending Decelerated in the First Quarter of 2015

| The BEA Wire

Real spending (output) on travel and tourism decelerated in the first quarter of 2015, increasing at an annual rate of 2.0 percent after increasing 4.9 percent (revised) in the fourth quarter of 2014.  By comparison, real gross domestic product (GDP) turned down, decreasing 0.7 percent (second estimate) in the first quarter after increasing 2.2 percent.