Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area
(EUR billions; transactions, non−seasonally adjusted data)
| Twelve-month cumulated figures ending | September 2005 (revised) | October 2005 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2004 | October 2005 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 42.2 | 1,803.7 | 1,761.5 | -10.6 | 1,948.5 | 1,959.1 | -3.5 | 169.8 | 173.3 | -9.2 | 168.4 | 177.6 | |||
| Goods | 110.8 | 1,109.6 | 998.8 | 66.1 | 1,199.0 | 1,132.9 | 4.7 | 108.0 | 103.3 | 2.3 | 108.0 | 105.7 | |||
| Services | 29.7 | 356.8 | 327.1 | 26.8 | 374.2 | 347.4 | 2.9 | 33.2 | 30.3 | 3.5 | 33.2 | 29.7 | |||
| Income | -41.0 | 255.3 | 296.3 | -42.4 | 293.2 | 335.6 | -3.6 | 24.0 | 27.5 | -9.5 | 23.1 | 32.6 | |||
| Current transfers | -57.2 | 82.1 | 139.4 | -61.1 | 82.1 | 143.2 | -7.5 | 4.6 | 12.1 | -5.5 | 4.2 | 9.7 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 18.5 | 25.4 | 6.9 | 13.9 | 23.0 | 9.1 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 0.9 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -23.3 | 102.8 | 26.0 | -6.6 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -38.6 | -116.2 | 77.6 | -136.1 | -203.2 | 67.2 | 2.2 | -9.6 | 11.8 | -0.9 | -4.3 | 3.4 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -32.1 | -114.2 | 82.2 | -110.1 | -155.9 | 45.8 | -4.8 | -1.7 | -3.1 | 13.3 | 7.0 | 6.3 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -6.5 | -2.0 | -4.5 | -25.9 | -47.3 | 21.4 | 7.0 | -7.9 | 14.9 | -14.2 | -11.4 | -2.9 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 37.1 | -318.1 | 355.2 | 196.4 | -390.4 | 586.8 | 14.3 | -41.7 | 56.0 | -5.1 | -19.3 | 14.2 | |||
| Equity | -4.1 | -105.3 | 101.2 | 169.6 | -83.2 | 252.9 | 5.9 | -3.9 | 9.8 | -12.5 | -2.6 | -10.0 | |||
| Debt instruments | 41.2 | -212.8 | 253.9 | 26.8 | -307.2 | 334.0 | 8.5 | -37.8 | 46.2 | 7.4 | -16.8 | 24.2 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 82.3 | -161.5 | 243.8 | -11.9 | -280.5 | 268.6 | -2.5 | -34.9 | 32.4 | -8.4 | -28.4 | 20.0 | |||
| Money market instruments | -41.2 | -51.3 | 10.1 | 38.7 | -26.7 | 65.4 | 11.0 | -2.8 | 13.8 | 15.8 | 11.6 | 4.1 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -1.5 | -434.3 | 432.8 | 60.3 | -593.7 | 654.0 | 16.5 | -51.3 | 67.8 | -6.1 | -23.7 | 17.6 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -10.0 | -13.4 | -2.0 | -1.4 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -35.6 | -285.7 | 250.1 | 44.5 | -523.8 | 568.3 | 11.9 | -69.7 | 81.5 | 0.9 | -55.1 | 56.0 | |||
| Eurosystem | 1.0 | -2.1 | 3.1 | 11.7 | 1.0 | 10.7 | 4.7 | 0.2 | 4.5 | -1.0 | 0.0 | -1.0 | |||
| General government | -4.4 | -1.3 | -3.1 | 5.7 | 5.9 | -0.1 | 2.0 | 2.2 | -0.2 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 2.0 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | -0.6 | -0.6 | |||||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -14.5 | -225.8 | 211.3 | 57.3 | -412.5 | 469.8 | 11.2 | -64.8 | 76.0 | 1.6 | -49.1 | 50.7 | |||
| long-term | -0.6 | -19.8 | 19.2 | -49.7 | -89.9 | 40.2 | -12.7 | -20.4 | 7.6 | -4.4 | -5.0 | 0.6 | |||
| short-term | -13.9 | -206.0 | 192.1 | 107.0 | -322.6 | 429.5 | 24.0 | -44.4 | 68.4 | 6.0 | -44.1 | 50.1 | |||
| Other sectors | -17.8 | -56.6 | 38.8 | -30.3 | -118.3 | 88.0 | -6.1 | -7.3 | 1.2 | -2.1 | -6.3 | 4.3 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -6.5 | -6.5 | -4.6 | -4.6 | -0.4 | -0.4 | |||||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 23.9 | 23.9 | 11.5 | 11.5 | -0.3 | -0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -37.4 | -106.2 | -23.7 | 15.0 | |||||||||||