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 | July 2012 (revised) | August 2012 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | August 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | -25.3 | 2,853.0 | 2,878.3 | 66.5 | 3,089.9 | 3,023.4 | 14.3 | 265.8 | 251.5 | 7.2 | 255.5 | 248.3 | |||
| Goods | -2.9 | 1,719.8 | 1,722.7 | 63.5 | 1,879.5 | 1,815.9 | 11.1 | 163.5 | 152.4 | 4.4 | 154.9 | 150.5 | |||
| Services | 54.0 | 541.1 | 487.1 | 78.2 | 594.9 | 516.7 | 8.1 | 55.1 | 47.0 | 7.4 | 54.5 | 47.1 | |||
| Income | 25.5 | 501.4 | 476.0 | 35.4 | 520.6 | 485.3 | 2.4 | 41.1 | 38.7 | 5.9 | 40.7 | 34.7 | |||
| Current transfers | -101.9 | 90.7 | 192.6 | -110.7 | 94.9 | 205.5 | -7.4 | 6.0 | 13.4 | -10.7 | 5.4 | 16.1 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 6.1 | 21.6 | 15.6 | 11.5 | 26.5 | 15.1 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 2.8 | 1.5 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -7.1 | -60.2 | -7.3 | -12.1 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -66.8 | -282.1 | 215.3 | -106.9 | -302.9 | 196.0 | -7.2 | -6.5 | -0.6 | -11.2 | -24.2 | 13.0 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -44.2 | -218.5 | 174.9 | -49.0 | -248.5 | 199.5 | -2.7 | -14.7 | 12.0 | -4.5 | -20.6 | 16.0 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -22.8 | -63.6 | 40.4 | -57.8 | -54.4 | -3.5 | -4.5 | 8.2 | -12.6 | -6.6 | -3.6 | -3.0 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 349.2 | -64.3 | 413.5 | 61.5 | -50.6 | 112.1 | 25.4 | 13.7 | 11.7 | 7.8 | -19.2 | 27.0 | |||
| Equity | 136.4 | -30.7 | 167.1 | 120.5 | 41.5 | 79.0 | -4.6 | 3.6 | -8.2 | 12.9 | -2.6 | 15.5 | |||
| Debt instruments | 212.8 | -33.6 | 246.4 | -59.0 | -92.1 | 33.1 | 30.0 | 10.1 | 19.9 | -5.1 | -16.6 | 11.5 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 218.5 | -28.6 | 247.2 | 52.8 | -45.1 | 97.9 | 3.6 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 28.0 | -15.2 | 43.2 | |||
| Money market instruments | -5.7 | -5.0 | -0.8 | -111.8 | -47.0 | -64.8 | 26.4 | 8.5 | 17.9 | -33.1 | -1.4 | -31.7 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 282.4 | -346.4 | 628.8 | -45.4 | -353.5 | 308.1 | 18.2 | 7.1 | 11.1 | -3.4 | -43.4 | 40.1 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 5.9 | -31.0 | -2.3 | -0.3 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -288.3 | -297.1 | 8.8 | 32.9 | 32.9 | 0.1 | -23.7 | -40.0 | 16.3 | -6.8 | 46.4 | -53.2 | |||
| Eurosystem | 41.5 | -14.9 | 56.4 | 141.3 | 13.8 | 127.5 | 22.6 | -5.1 | 27.7 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |||
| General government | 78.8 | -16.4 | 95.3 | 28.2 | -14.0 | 42.2 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 1.4 | -1.0 | 1.5 | -2.5 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 3.3 | 3.3 | -16.6 | -16.6 | -1.6 | -1.6 | 1.2 | 1.2 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -324.7 | -134.9 | -189.9 | -110.5 | 135.5 | -246.0 | -47.1 | -20.0 | -27.1 | -9.6 | 29.2 | -38.8 | |||
| Long-term | 36.9 | -0.4 | 37.3 | -30.0 | 29.8 | -59.8 | 1.6 | 3.7 | -2.1 | 3.4 | 8.8 | -5.5 | |||
| Short-term | -361.7 | -134.5 | -227.2 | -80.5 | 105.7 | -186.2 | -48.6 | -23.7 | -24.9 | -13.0 | 20.4 | -33.3 | |||
| Other sectors | -83.9 | -130.9 | 47.0 | -26.0 | -102.4 | 76.3 | -0.7 | -15.0 | 14.3 | 2.9 | 15.5 | -12.5 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -76.6 | -76.6 | -62.0 | -62.0 | -13.7 | -13.7 | 4.0 | 4.0 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -7.1 | -7.1 | -16.8 | -16.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | -1.6 | -1.6 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 26.4 | -17.7 | -7.2 | 3.6 | |||||||||||