Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area
(EUR billions; transactions, non−seasonally adjusted data)
| Cumulated figures for the 12-month period ending | June 2006 (revised) | July 2006 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2005 | July 2006 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 18.8 | 1,925.1 | 1,906.3 | -43.0 | 2,186.7 | 2,229.7 | 6.8 | 202.2 | 195.4 | 1.4 | 190.4 | 189.0 | |||
| Goods | 74.6 | 1,166.4 | 1,091.8 | 17.9 | 1,317.6 | 1,299.8 | 4.6 | 118.1 | 113.5 | 5.1 | 115.1 | 109.9 | |||
| Services | 31.2 | 378.2 | 347.0 | 38.1 | 418.2 | 380.1 | 5.0 | 37.4 | 32.4 | 4.8 | 39.5 | 34.8 | |||
| Income | -26.1 | 296.9 | 323.0 | -30.8 | 368.3 | 399.1 | 1.7 | 40.7 | 39.0 | -1.5 | 31.2 | 32.7 | |||
| Current transfers | -60.8 | 83.6 | 144.4 | -68.2 | 82.6 | 150.8 | -4.6 | 6.0 | 10.6 | -7.0 | 4.6 | 11.6 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 14.5 | 23.5 | 9.0 | 11.8 | 22.9 | 11.1 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 1.2 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 76.3 | 160.8 | 11.0 | 13.5 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -135.1 | -232.4 | 97.3 | -66.2 | -161.6 | 95.4 | -7.7 | -9.0 | 1.4 | -8.9 | -12.3 | 3.5 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -138.8 | -220.6 | 81.8 | -52.4 | -108.3 | 55.9 | -4.9 | -7.3 | 2.4 | -7.7 | -11.0 | 3.3 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | 3.7 | -11.8 | 15.5 | -13.8 | -53.3 | 39.5 | -2.8 | -1.7 | -1.1 | -1.1 | -1.3 | 0.2 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 259.1 | -367.2 | 626.3 | 107.5 | -465.3 | 572.8 | 66.5 | -0.7 | 67.2 | 2.1 | -39.9 | 42.0 | |||
| Equity | 192.3 | -93.9 | 286.2 | 148.0 | -162.6 | 310.6 | 62.1 | 4.0 | 58.1 | 39.7 | -5.9 | 45.5 | |||
| Debt instruments | 66.9 | -273.2 | 340.1 | -40.5 | -302.6 | 262.2 | 4.3 | -4.7 | 9.0 | -37.5 | -34.1 | -3.5 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 42.6 | -247.3 | 289.8 | -14.3 | -264.7 | 250.5 | 15.3 | -7.0 | 22.3 | -13.1 | -14.2 | 1.2 | |||
| Money market instruments | 24.3 | -26.0 | 50.3 | -26.2 | -37.9 | 11.7 | -10.9 | 2.3 | -13.3 | -24.4 | -19.8 | -4.6 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 124.0 | -599.6 | 723.6 | 41.3 | -626.9 | 668.2 | 58.8 | -9.7 | 68.5 | -6.7 | -52.2 | 45.5 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -10.7 | -17.9 | 2.4 | 2.1 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -53.2 | -538.4 | 485.2 | 124.8 | -587.5 | 712.3 | -51.7 | 45.7 | -97.4 | 18.9 | -53.6 | 72.6 | |||
| Eurosystem | 8.8 | -0.3 | 9.1 | 10.4 | -2.8 | 13.2 | -1.6 | 0.3 | -1.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.1 | |||
| General government | -0.3 | -0.0 | -0.3 | 3.1 | 7.0 | -4.0 | -3.3 | -3.5 | 0.1 | 8.8 | 7.0 | 1.8 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -6.3 | -6.3 | 4.9 | 4.9 | -3.7 | -3.7 | 6.9 | 6.9 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -40.4 | -407.6 | 367.2 | 122.7 | -365.2 | 487.9 | -62.8 | 48.8 | -111.6 | 21.6 | -42.9 | 64.5 | |||
| long-term | -13.3 | -57.1 | 43.8 | -55.4 | -112.5 | 57.1 | -6.7 | -17.5 | 10.8 | -5.5 | -13.1 | 7.6 | |||
| short-term | -27.1 | -350.5 | 323.4 | 178.1 | -252.7 | 430.9 | -56.1 | 66.3 | -122.4 | 27.1 | -29.8 | 56.9 | |||
| Other sectors | -21.2 | -130.4 | 109.2 | -11.4 | -226.5 | 215.1 | 16.0 | 0.2 | 15.9 | -12.3 | -18.6 | 6.3 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -13.7 | -13.7 | -20.5 | -20.5 | 7.7 | 7.7 | -2.7 | -2.7 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 16.1 | 16.1 | 12.6 | 12.6 | 1.5 | 1.5 | -0.8 | -0.8 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -109.6 | -129.6 | -18.6 | -15.7 | |||||||||||