- France: according to a study that recently appeared in the French daily Les Echos, foreign investors, who were barely present in France in the middle of the 1980s, currently hold more than 50% of capital in French companies quoted on the stock exchange and 37.5% of capital from French companies as a whole. These statistics wee published by the Banque de France. In comparison, control of companies by non-residents is estimated to be at 30%, whereas in other large countries it only reaches...