Economic Growth and Investment in the 2026 GCC

Expenditures by foreign direct financiers to acquire, establish, or broaden U.S. organizations amounted to $232.2 billion in 2025, according to preliminary data 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. companies represented the majority of the expenditures.

services were $4.6 billion, and expenditures to broaden existing foreign-owned businesses were $9.2 billion. Planned overall expenditures, that include both first-year and planned future expenditures, were $284.5 billion. Work in 2025 at newly obtained, developed, or expanded foreign-owned services in the United States was 213,100 staff members. By market, expenditures for brand-new direct investment were biggest in publishing markets ($50.7 billion), followed by chemicals manufacturing ($45.4 billion) and plastics and rubber items manufacturing ($19.0 billion).

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

company or to expand an existing foreign-owned U.S. businesswere $13.8 billion in 2025. By market, greenfield expenses were largest in transport and warehousing ($3.6 billion), computers and electronics products manufacturing ($2.0 billion), and chemicals production ($1.8 billion). By region, investors from Asia and Pacific contributed the highest dollar worth of greenfield expenditures ($8.3 billion), led by Australia ($3.0 billion), South Korea ($2.2 billion), and Japan ($1.7 billion).

Planned overall expenditures for greenfield financial investment initiated in 2025, which include both first-year and planned future expenses, were $66.1 billion. In 2025, current work of acquired business was 211,700. Total prepared work, that includes the existing employment of acquired enterprises, the prepared employment of recently established organization enterprises when totally operational, and the planned work associated with growths, was 232,400. By industry, plastics and rubber parts producing accounted for the largest number of current workers (21,800), followed by transport equipment manufacturing (17,300) and primary and made metals making (16,400).

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

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1. Based upon a contrast of the S&P 500 Index to the Bloomberg United States Convertible Cash Pay Bond > $250mn Index. The S&P 500 is a stock exchange index weighted by market capitalization that is comprised of 500 of the biggest public companies in the United States. The Bloomberg US Convertible Cash Pay Bond > $250mn Index tracks the performance of United States dollar-denominated cash-pay convertible securities with minimum quantities exceptional of at least $250 million.

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