Monday, February 8, 2016

WSJ: What Is Capital Flight?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Investors might hear the term “capital flight” a lot more this year. It’s important to anyone who has invested in emerging markets, especially China.

So what is it? Capital flight is the term for unusually large amounts of money leaving a country to be invested elsewhere. It often happens when investors en masse lose faith in a country’s economic prospects.

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