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 | September 2012 (revised) | October 2012 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2011 | October 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 | -8.2 | 2,931.1 | 2,939.2 | 79.4 | 3,130.3 | 3,050.9 | 5.0 | 260.3 | 255.2 | 7.2 | 271.2 | 264.0 | |||
| Goods | -4.7 | 1,744.6 | 1,749.2 | 76.8 | 1,906.0 | 1,829.2 | 6.5 | 159.2 | 152.7 | 8.2 | 173.8 | 165.6 | |||
| Services | 63.2 | 571.0 | 507.8 | 84.8 | 610.0 | 525.2 | 8.7 | 52.6 | 43.9 | 6.7 | 53.0 | 46.3 | |||
| Income | 38.8 | 522.6 | 483.8 | 31.6 | 518.8 | 487.2 | 1.2 | 43.1 | 41.8 | 2.2 | 38.3 | 36.2 | |||
| Current transfers | -105.5 | 92.9 | 198.4 | -113.8 | 95.5 | 209.3 | -11.4 | 5.4 | 16.7 | -9.8 | 6.1 | 15.9 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 10.1 | 22.7 | 12.6 | 11.9 | 27.5 | 15.7 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 3.2 | 1.3 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -8.6 | -94.4 | -6.6 | -6.6 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -54.1 | -370.8 | 316.7 | -101.1 | -299.9 | 198.8 | -15.9 | -19.9 | 3.9 | -13.0 | -18.2 | 5.2 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | 7.5 | -295.4 | 303.3 | -78.9 | -271.1 | 192.1 | -3.1 | -4.3 | 1.2 | -14.0 | -17.6 | 3.6 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -61.8 | -75.4 | 13.4 | -22.1 | -28.8 | 6.7 | -12.9 | -15.6 | 2.7 | 1.0 | -0.7 | 1.7 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 311.1 | 66.8 | 244.3 | 92.6 | -83.3 | 175.9 | 13.9 | -25.1 | 39.0 | 47.5 | 2.4 | 45.0 | |||
| Equity | 76.6 | 21.3 | 55.3 | 153.9 | 18.4 | 135.5 | 4.6 | -8.9 | 13.5 | 21.1 | -6.1 | 27.2 | |||
| Debt instruments | 234.5 | 45.5 | 189.0 | -61.4 | -101.8 | 40.4 | 9.3 | -16.2 | 25.5 | 26.3 | 8.5 | 17.8 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 267.0 | 26.7 | 240.3 | 58.9 | -57.1 | 116.0 | 40.7 | -6.1 | 46.8 | 11.0 | 0.1 | 10.9 | |||
| Money market instruments | -32.5 | 18.8 | -51.3 | -120.3 | -44.7 | -75.6 | -31.4 | -10.1 | -21.3 | 15.3 | 8.4 | 6.9 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 257.0 | -304.1 | 561.0 | -8.5 | -383.2 | 374.7 | -2.1 | -45.0 | 43.0 | 34.5 | -15.8 | 50.3 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 13.0 | -30.9 | -2.6 | -0.6 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -272.5 | -277.5 | 5.0 | -35.7 | -6.7 | -29.0 | -2.9 | 21.0 | -23.9 | -38.0 | -20.3 | -17.8 | |||
| Eurosystem | 45.0 | -11.2 | 56.3 | 102.3 | -5.0 | 107.2 | -7.8 | -1.5 | -6.3 | -17.1 | -4.8 | -12.4 | |||
| General government | 108.2 | 1.6 | 106.6 | 17.1 | -0.9 | 18.0 | 2.8 | 6.7 | -3.9 | 2.0 | -1.3 | 3.3 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -10.2 | -10.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -322.0 | -91.5 | -230.4 | -136.7 | 85.4 | -222.1 | 8.4 | 36.1 | -27.8 | -11.7 | -10.5 | -1.2 | |||
| Long-term | 3.8 | -1.9 | 5.7 | -11.1 | 15.9 | -27.0 | -5.8 | 0.3 | -6.1 | 10.1 | 16.1 | -6.0 | |||
| Short-term | -325.8 | -89.6 | -236.2 | -125.6 | 69.5 | -195.1 | 14.2 | 35.8 | -21.6 | -21.8 | -26.6 | 4.8 | |||
| Other sectors | -103.8 | -176.3 | 72.5 | -18.4 | -86.3 | 67.9 | -6.2 | -20.3 | 14.0 | -11.2 | -3.7 | -7.5 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -67.2 | -67.2 | -57.7 | -57.7 | -13.6 | -13.6 | -7.8 | -7.8 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -6.1 | -6.1 | -19.2 | -19.2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | -2.4 | -2.4 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 6.7 | 3.1 | 0.2 | -2.5 | |||||||||||