In Europe, unlike America, total venture-capital statistics also include management buy-outs (MBO) and management buy-ins (MBI).
Last month, according to data compiled by Reuters, foreign investors sold a net $11.3 billion worth of Japanese stocks, the largest monthly net selling since the Ministry of Finance started tracking the capital flow statistics four years ago.
The latest BIS capital-flow statistics show that there was substantial private-sector external-debt repayment in the weak East Asian economies in 1999 and the first quarter of this year.
Vegas is also statistics capital of the world, some more meaningless than you could imagine, like two talk ing camels in the Luxor pyramid who said: "If you unravelled all the telephone wires in the Luxor, they would stretch to the moon".
The Mayor of London will miss his target to build 55,000 affordable homes in the capital by 2015, statistics from a housing board have suggested.
Critics of the death penalty argue that the statistics show capital punishment does not act as a deterrent.
But last year the number of murders dropped to eight, meaning the city will probably shed its unwanted murder capital designation when new statistics are released later this year.
Although the government does not disclose statistics on capital punishment, Amnesty International says Singapore has one of the highest execution rates in the world.
Announcing that dedicated police teams would be deployed across 30 locations in January 2009, the capital's mayor produced statistics showing that robberies on buses had fallen by nearly 38%, violent crime by 5.6% and "overall crime" by 16%, as a result of trials at three transport "hubs" in different parts of the city.
Obtaining the data and statistics of capital, as it can be observed in most of the research, is difficult.
