Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area
(EUR billions; transactions, non−seasonally adjusted data)
| Cumulated figures for the 12-month period ending | April 2007 (revised) | May 2007 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2006 | May 2007 | ||||||||||||||
| Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | ||||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
| ( 1 ) Financial account: inflows (+); outflows (−). Reserve assets: increase (−); decrease (+). | |||||||||||||||
| ( 2 ) Direct investment: assets refer to direct investment abroad and liabilities to direct investment in the euro area. | |||||||||||||||
| CURRENTACCOUNT | -33.4 | 2,187.1 | 2,220.5 | -0.2 | 2,438.9 | 2,439.0 | -4.3 | 200.9 | 205.2 | -14.6 | 209.3 | 223.9 | |||
| Goods | 21.6 | 1,299.2 | 1,277.6 | 46.1 | 1,436.0 | 1,389.9 | 4.3 | 119.2 | 114.8 | 3.6 | 123.4 | 119.8 | |||
| Services | 37.0 | 418.5 | 381.6 | 35.4 | 439.6 | 404.2 | 3.0 | 35.4 | 32.4 | 3.4 | 38.0 | 34.6 | |||
| Income | -16.4 | 388.2 | 404.6 | -4.8 | 475.0 | 479.8 | -4.3 | 41.4 | 45.7 | -16.5 | 41.2 | 57.7 | |||
| Current transfers | -75.6 | 81.2 | 156.8 | -76.8 | 88.3 | 165.1 | -7.3 | 5.0 | 12.3 | -5.1 | 6.8 | 11.9 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 12.0 | 24.5 | 12.5 | 15.4 | 26.9 | 11.5 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 2.6 | 0.7 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 110.5 | 13.0 | 17.7 | 0.7 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -194.3 | -385.9 | 191.6 | -179.2 | -305.2 | 126.0 | -24.5 | -30.1 | 5.6 | -11.3 | -31.0 | 19.8 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -180.0 | -322.4 | 142.5 | -146.2 | -236.2 | 90.0 | -14.1 | -19.1 | 4.9 | -3.6 | -28.1 | 24.5 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -14.4 | -63.5 | 49.0 | -33.0 | -69.0 | 36.0 | -10.4 | -11.1 | 0.7 | -7.7 | -2.9 | -4.7 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 190.6 | -463.0 | 653.6 | 356.4 | -506.9 | 863.4 | 15.6 | -41.2 | 56.8 | 7.3 | -60.3 | 67.5 | |||
| Equity | 181.4 | -172.0 | 353.3 | 232.6 | -85.1 | 317.8 | -10.8 | -11.9 | 1.1 | 10.3 | -1.9 | 12.2 | |||
| Debt instruments | 9.3 | -291.0 | 300.2 | 123.8 | -421.8 | 545.6 | 26.4 | -29.3 | 55.7 | -3.0 | -58.3 | 55.4 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 9.6 | -276.1 | 285.7 | 179.4 | -328.1 | 507.4 | 13.3 | -26.2 | 39.5 | -9.7 | -48.3 | 38.6 | |||
| Money market instruments | -0.4 | -14.9 | 14.5 | -55.6 | -93.8 | 38.2 | 13.1 | -3.1 | 16.2 | 6.7 | -10.1 | 16.8 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -3.7 | -848.9 | 845.2 | 177.3 | -812.1 | 989.4 | -8.9 | -71.3 | 62.4 | -4.0 | -91.3 | 87.3 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -17.4 | -13.8 | -4.1 | -2.2 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 116.6 | -644.5 | 761.1 | -142.4 | -1,013.9 | 871.5 | 32.5 | -154.2 | 186.7 | 7.6 | -68.3 | 75.9 | |||
| Eurosystem | 10.1 | -4.1 | 14.2 | 9.3 | -6.8 | 16.1 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 2.1 | -3.3 | -2.5 | -0.8 | |||
| General government | -1.8 | 1.7 | -3.6 | 10.1 | 4.7 | 5.4 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.5 | -5.1 | -4.8 | -0.3 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -7.9 | -7.9 | 0.6 | 0.6 | -2.3 | -2.3 | -5.0 | -5.0 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 83.5 | -436.1 | 519.6 | -67.3 | -721.5 | 654.3 | 38.2 | -125.6 | 163.8 | 49.3 | -27.2 | 76.5 | |||
| long-term | -21.9 | -79.7 | 57.7 | -101.4 | -236.8 | 135.5 | -7.9 | -17.0 | 9.1 | 13.1 | -25.1 | 38.1 | |||
| short-term | 105.4 | -356.5 | 461.9 | 34.1 | -484.7 | 518.8 | 46.1 | -108.6 | 154.7 | 36.3 | -2.1 | 38.3 | |||
| Other sectors | 24.9 | -206.0 | 230.9 | -94.5 | -290.3 | 195.8 | -10.2 | -30.4 | 20.2 | -33.3 | -33.9 | 0.5 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -9.3 | -9.3 | -12.2 | -12.2 | -6.9 | -6.9 | -5.8 | -5.8 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 15.0 | 15.0 | -8.1 | -8.1 | -1.8 | -1.8 | -0.7 | -0.7 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -89.1 | -28.2 | -14.0 | 12.0 | |||||||||||