The Accompanying Table Contains Hypothetical Data for the U

$$\begin{array} { | l | r | } \hline \text { U.S. goods exports } & + \$ 390 \\\hline \text { U.S. goods imports } & - 498 \\\hline \text { U.S. service exports } & + 133 \\\hline \text { U.S. service imports } & - 107 \\\hline \text { Net investment income } & + 12 \\\hline \text { Net transfers } & - 22 \\\hline \text { Capital account } & - 5 \\\hline \text { Foreign purchases of U.S. assets } & + 156 \\\hline \text { U.S. purchases of foreign assets } & - 59 \\\hline\end{array}$$ The accompanying table contains hypothetical data for the U.S. balance of payments in a year. All ?gures are in billions of dollars. What does the ?gure for net investment income indicate?

A) Americans invested more abroad than the amount foreigners invested in the U.S.
B) the size of the net in?ow of foreign investment to the United States in that year
C) the net amount Americans received as interest and dividends on existing American investments abroad
D) the net amount Americans paid as interest and dividends on existing foreign investments in the United States