The appetite for overseas investments appears to have continued into May.

The American economy has become dependent on overseas investment to help keep interest rates lower than they would be otherwise.

In the first 10 months of this year, Taiwan's overseas investment increased by two and a half times, to $609 million.

With the dollar generally rising this year, most overseas investments have been poor ones for Americans.

Even now he claims a fortune of $3 billion in Russian and overseas investments.

But investors grew wary last year, and overseas investment began to slow.

Yet overseas investment is rising at twice the rate of exports.

Even so, China's overseas investments have already caused some alarm.

The other area of concern relates to the rise in overseas investment.

Large Japanese investors, like life insurance companies, have been selling overseas investments and moving their money home.