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 | April 2011 (revised) | May 2011 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | May 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 | -18.6 | 2,375.9 | 2,394.4 | -58.0 | 2,742.0 | 2,800.0 | -6.5 | 224.6 | 231.1 | -18.3 | 243.4 | 261.7 | |||
| Goods | 41.4 | 1,386.8 | 1,345.4 | 3.5 | 1,682.2 | 1,678.8 | -3.5 | 141.4 | 144.9 | 1.5 | 151.4 | 149.8 | |||
| Services | 35.3 | 483.1 | 447.8 | 44.4 | 529.3 | 484.8 | 3.0 | 40.9 | 37.9 | 4.4 | 44.7 | 40.3 | |||
| Income | 1.0 | 414.9 | 413.9 | -5.9 | 440.5 | 446.4 | 0.5 | 36.3 | 35.8 | -18.0 | 40.4 | 58.4 | |||
| Current transfers | -96.3 | 91.0 | 187.3 | -100.0 | 90.0 | 190.1 | -6.5 | 6.0 | 12.5 | -6.3 | 6.9 | 13.2 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 6.5 | 20.5 | 13.9 | 6.5 | 21.9 | 15.4 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 0.9 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 5.0 | 36.4 | 2.0 | 16.6 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -105.2 | -262.4 | 157.2 | -23.1 | -149.1 | 126.0 | -27.8 | -41.3 | 13.6 | -4.7 | -8.8 | 4.0 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | 34.5 | -172.4 | 208.0 | 11.3 | -85.4 | 97.4 | -30.3 | -37.1 | 6.8 | 0.8 | -2.9 | 3.6 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -140.6 | -89.9 | -50.9 | -34.8 | -63.7 | 28.6 | 2.6 | -4.2 | 6.8 | -5.5 | -5.9 | 0.4 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 280.5 | -142.2 | 422.8 | 255.4 | -114.8 | 370.2 | 47.8 | 5.0 | 42.8 | 57.2 | -12.2 | 69.5 | |||
| Equity | 27.7 | -106.6 | 134.3 | 106.3 | -68.2 | 174.5 | -41.8 | -13.6 | -28.2 | -21.5 | -8.5 | -13.0 | |||
| Debt instruments | 252.8 | -35.6 | 288.5 | 149.1 | -46.5 | 195.7 | 89.5 | 18.5 | 71.0 | 78.7 | -3.7 | 82.5 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 94.6 | -88.0 | 182.6 | 75.6 | -66.7 | 142.3 | 77.8 | 6.4 | 71.4 | 41.9 | -9.2 | 51.1 | |||
| Money market instruments | 158.3 | 52.4 | 105.8 | 73.5 | 20.2 | 53.3 | 11.8 | 12.1 | -0.4 | 36.8 | 5.5 | 31.3 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 175.3 | -404.6 | 579.9 | 232.3 | -263.8 | 496.2 | 20.0 | -36.3 | 56.4 | 52.5 | -21.0 | 73.5 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 5.2 | 10.3 | 0.7 | 3.2 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -170.7 | -111.0 | -59.7 | -192.5 | -153.4 | -39.1 | -24.6 | -119.9 | 95.3 | -36.0 | -116.0 | 80.0 | |||
| Eurosystem | -88.0 | 5.5 | -93.5 | 3.6 | -14.6 | 18.1 | -5.0 | -5.6 | 0.6 | 6.9 | 1.5 | 5.3 | |||
| General government | 2.3 | -18.6 | 20.8 | 52.3 | -23.0 | 75.3 | -3.5 | -1.7 | -1.8 | 12.8 | 2.1 | 10.8 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -0.6 | -0.6 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -27.8 | -48.2 | 20.4 | -191.4 | -53.7 | -137.7 | 8.3 | -95.4 | 103.7 | -28.3 | -85.8 | 57.5 | |||
| Long-term | 14.4 | -1.3 | 15.7 | 84.6 | 44.2 | 40.3 | 0.2 | -2.0 | 2.1 | -4.9 | -7.6 | 2.6 | |||
| Short-term | -42.1 | -46.9 | 4.8 | -275.9 | -97.9 | -178.0 | 8.1 | -93.4 | 101.6 | -23.3 | -78.2 | 54.9 | |||
| Other sectors | -57.2 | -49.8 | -7.5 | -57.0 | -62.1 | 5.2 | -24.4 | -17.2 | -7.1 | -27.5 | -33.8 | 6.3 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -2.5 | -2.5 | -3.0 | -3.0 | -4.5 | -4.5 | -9.6 | -9.6 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -4.9 | -4.9 | -13.6 | -13.6 | 5.9 | 5.9 | -3.1 | -3.1 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 7.1 | 15.0 | 4.4 | 1.2 | |||||||||||