Now, with the dollar in free fall, foreigners are almost certainly fleeing American markets.
These are the soldiers that foreigners fleeing the capital pass through on the way to the Beijing airport.
More than 4,000 foreigners have now fled the country since fighting erupted.
If that happened, foreigners would flee, leaving only male oil workers in guarded compounds.
The foreigners, seeing the destruction, fled from the island in fear.
When his ministers tried to set up a government in internal exile here, more foreigners fled.
In Kisangani, at least 700 foreigners fled, officials here say, taking with them thousands of local jobs.
But those higher rates could depress inflated stock prices and cause foreigners to flee America rather than invest more.
But in late 1990, when share prices were low, the foreigners fled.
Forty foreigners have fled from the island to Australia.