China's Foreign Direct Investment Declines a Fifth Month

``Foreign direct investment in China dropped for a fifth straight month in March on a slowing economy, limited prospects for gains in the yuan and renewed concerns that Europe's debt crisis will worsen. Inbound investment fell 6.1 percent from a year earlier to $11.76 billion, the Ministry of Commerce said today in Beijing, after a 0.9 percent drop the previous month. That's the longest run of declines since the global financial crisis.''