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 | February 2011 (revised) | March 2011 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2010 | March 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 | -16.6 | 2,326.9 | 2,343.5 | -52.2 | 2,680.0 | 2,732.2 | -8.9 | 220.4 | 229.3 | -3.8 | 245.7 | 249.5 | |||
| Goods | 48.3 | 1,344.0 | 1,295.7 | 6.7 | 1,638.1 | 1,631.4 | -0.6 | 137.7 | 138.4 | 2.4 | 158.7 | 156.4 | |||
| Services | 35.0 | 477.2 | 442.2 | 42.1 | 522.3 | 480.2 | 2.3 | 37.4 | 35.1 | 1.6 | 42.3 | 40.7 | |||
| Income | -1.6 | 415.6 | 417.2 | -4.5 | 427.1 | 431.7 | 2.9 | 32.9 | 30.0 | 1.8 | 39.3 | 37.5 | |||
| Current transfers | -98.3 | 90.1 | 188.4 | -96.4 | 92.4 | 188.8 | -13.5 | 12.4 | 25.9 | -9.5 | 5.3 | 14.9 | |||
| CAPITALACCOUNT | 7.0 | 21.1 | 14.2 | 7.7 | 21.8 | 14.1 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 0.8 | -0.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -14.6 | 46.6 | 7.4 | 2.6 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -94.8 | -272.5 | 177.7 | -55.6 | -172.5 | 116.9 | -22.0 | -8.7 | -13.4 | -6.6 | -18.6 | 12.0 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | 41.2 | -206.4 | 248.9 | 8.1 | -77.5 | 86.2 | 1.1 | -1.8 | 3.0 | -1.4 | -7.5 | 6.1 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -136.8 | -66.0 | -71.2 | -64.1 | -94.9 | 30.7 | -23.1 | -6.8 | -16.3 | -5.2 | -11.1 | 5.9 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 227.9 | -189.5 | 417.4 | 274.5 | -105.6 | 380.2 | 97.3 | 1.9 | 95.4 | 77.0 | 8.4 | 68.6 | |||
| Equity | 58.9 | -118.5 | 177.4 | 166.6 | -44.5 | 211.1 | 32.2 | -4.7 | 36.9 | 29.1 | -0.7 | 29.8 | |||
| Debt instruments | 168.9 | -71.0 | 240.0 | 107.9 | -61.1 | 169.1 | 65.1 | 6.5 | 58.6 | 47.9 | 9.1 | 38.7 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 24.9 | -109.3 | 134.1 | 44.6 | -81.7 | 126.3 | 28.1 | -2.7 | 30.9 | 41.1 | 12.5 | 28.6 | |||
| Money market instruments | 144.1 | 38.3 | 105.8 | 63.3 | 20.6 | 42.7 | 37.0 | 9.3 | 27.7 | 6.8 | -3.4 | 10.2 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 133.1 | -462.0 | 595.1 | 219.0 | -278.1 | 497.1 | 75.3 | -6.8 | 82.1 | 70.4 | -10.2 | 80.6 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 27.8 | 1.3 | -2.3 | 1.1 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -169.8 | 235.1 | -404.9 | -157.0 | -85.5 | -71.6 | -66.6 | -31.0 | -35.6 | -62.5 | 60.1 | -122.6 | |||
| Eurosystem | -154.3 | 0.5 | -154.8 | 17.0 | -6.8 | 23.7 | 1.6 | -3.0 | 4.6 | -2.1 | 0.0 | -2.1 | |||
| General government | -0.8 | 1.8 | -2.6 | 49.5 | -38.9 | 88.4 | 7.0 | -0.3 | 7.2 | 8.9 | 1.2 | 7.7 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 11.5 | 11.5 | -5.5 | -5.5 | -2.0 | -2.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -11.7 | 124.4 | -136.1 | -199.6 | -15.2 | -184.4 | -58.5 | -41.4 | -17.1 | -86.3 | 38.3 | -124.6 | |||
| Long-term | 2.5 | 23.7 | -21.2 | 72.4 | 25.9 | 46.5 | 0.9 | -8.7 | 9.6 | 6.4 | 5.7 | 0.7 | |||
| Short-term | -14.2 | 100.7 | -114.9 | -272.0 | -41.1 | -230.9 | -59.5 | -32.7 | -26.7 | -92.7 | 32.6 | -125.2 | |||
| Other sectors | -3.1 | 108.4 | -111.5 | -23.9 | -24.6 | 0.7 | -16.7 | 13.7 | -30.4 | 17.0 | 20.6 | -3.6 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 59.0 | 59.0 | -24.6 | -24.6 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 9.7 | 9.7 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -5.7 | -5.7 | -16.6 | -16.6 | 1.0 | 1.0 | -6.4 | -6.4 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 24.3 | -2.2 | -0.7 | 1.2 | |||||||||||