Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area
(EUR billions; transactions; non−working day and non−seasonally adjusted data)
| Cumulated figures for the 12-month period ending | August 2011 (revised) | September 2011 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2010 | September 2011 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | -30.9 | 2,521.5 | 2,552.4 | -59.3 | 2,817.8 | 2,877.1 | -7.2 | 228.1 | 235.3 | -2.5 | 244.9 | 247.4 | |||
| Goods | 23.4 | 1,486.4 | 1,463.0 | -9.2 | 1,724.7 | 1,733.9 | -4.5 | 139.9 | 144.4 | 2.2 | 153.7 | 151.6 | |||
| Services | 47.1 | 507.2 | 460.1 | 50.4 | 532.7 | 482.3 | 4.0 | 46.4 | 42.5 | 5.9 | 47.2 | 41.3 | |||
| Income | 3.9 | 438.7 | 434.9 | 0.0 | 468.5 | 468.5 | 1.1 | 35.9 | 34.7 | -0.6 | 38.6 | 39.1 | |||
| Current transfers | -105.2 | 89.1 | 194.4 | -100.6 | 91.8 | 192.4 | -7.8 | 5.9 | 13.7 | -10.0 | 5.4 | 15.4 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 5.5 | 20.5 | 15.0 | 7.0 | 21.4 | 14.4 | 2.2 | 3.1 | 1.0 | -0.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 20.0 | 58.0 | 6.8 | 2.8 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -127.3 | -289.4 | 162.1 | 34.3 | -153.8 | 188.1 | -0.3 | 6.0 | -6.3 | -7.2 | -18.4 | 11.2 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | 82.1 | -180.4 | 263.4 | 42.9 | -94.7 | 138.0 | 14.8 | 7.1 | 7.8 | -0.5 | -8.0 | 7.5 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -210.3 | -109.0 | -101.3 | -8.7 | -59.1 | 50.1 | -15.1 | -1.1 | -14.1 | -6.7 | -10.3 | 3.7 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 157.9 | -120.0 | 277.9 | 335.1 | -23.5 | 358.6 | 31.9 | 65.9 | -34.0 | 20.7 | 11.6 | 9.0 | |||
| Equity | 54.0 | -72.5 | 126.4 | 98.4 | -8.1 | 106.5 | 19.1 | 38.9 | -19.7 | 5.8 | 11.5 | -5.7 | |||
| Debt instruments | 103.9 | -47.6 | 151.5 | 236.7 | -15.4 | 252.1 | 12.8 | 27.0 | -14.2 | 14.9 | 0.2 | 14.7 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 13.6 | -130.3 | 144.0 | 215.5 | 14.6 | 200.9 | 19.2 | 24.9 | -5.6 | 17.9 | 20.6 | -2.8 | |||
| Money market instruments | 90.2 | 82.8 | 7.5 | 21.2 | -30.0 | 51.2 | -6.4 | 2.2 | -8.6 | -3.0 | -20.4 | 17.5 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 30.6 | -409.4 | 440.0 | 369.4 | -177.3 | 546.7 | 31.7 | 71.9 | -40.2 | 13.5 | -6.7 | 20.2 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 7.3 | 6.7 | -0.7 | 1.9 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -9.1 | -115.3 | 106.2 | -313.3 | -348.1 | 34.8 | -27.4 | -114.4 | 87.0 | -14.1 | -21.7 | 7.6 | |||
| Eurosystem | -18.3 | 3.5 | -21.7 | 52.6 | -11.4 | 64.0 | 6.6 | -0.5 | 7.1 | 11.9 | 3.3 | 8.6 | |||
| General government | 2.6 | -11.9 | 14.5 | 86.9 | -21.5 | 108.4 | 1.1 | 3.6 | -2.5 | 16.6 | -2.5 | 19.0 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -1.2 | -1.2 | -1.4 | -1.4 | 3.0 | 3.0 | -3.1 | -3.1 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -21.6 | -28.2 | 6.6 | -358.1 | -184.5 | -173.7 | -50.8 | -103.8 | 53.0 | -25.6 | -4.2 | -21.4 | |||
| Long-term | 48.4 | 26.0 | 22.4 | 15.0 | -3.6 | 18.6 | -4.5 | -8.9 | 4.4 | -3.7 | 2.6 | -6.3 | |||
| Short-term | -70.0 | -54.2 | -15.8 | -373.1 | -180.9 | -192.2 | -46.2 | -94.8 | 48.6 | -21.9 | -6.8 | -15.1 | |||
| Other sectors | 28.2 | -78.6 | 106.8 | -94.6 | -130.6 | 36.0 | 15.6 | -13.8 | 29.4 | -17.0 | -18.4 | 1.3 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 2.9 | 2.9 | -59.7 | -59.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -10.9 | -10.9 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -8.7 | -8.7 | -4.8 | -4.8 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 1.6 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 5.3 | -5.6 | -1.8 | -0.3 | |||||||||||