The downside of foreign investment is that the inflows of capital into equity and bond markets inevitably result in outflows by way of dividend and interest payments.

That can certainly be expected when mining companies, many of whose shareholders are foreign, are reporting rich profits and declaring even richer dividends — as they were for the end-June reporting period...

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