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 | December 2007 (revised) | January 2008 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2007 | January 2008 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | -10.0 | 2,389.9 | 2,399.9 | -0.2 | 2,610.7 | 2,610.9 | 4.3 | 225.2 | 221.0 | -19.1 | 213.4 | 232.5 | |||
| Goods | 21.5 | 1,397.9 | 1,376.4 | 52.1 | 1,509.9 | 1,457.8 | -1.4 | 117.7 | 119.1 | -8.1 | 124.7 | 132.8 | |||
| Services | 38.8 | 431.3 | 392.6 | 48.2 | 472.5 | 424.2 | 3.1 | 41.1 | 38.1 | 2.2 | 37.6 | 35.4 | |||
| Income | 3.7 | 469.8 | 466.1 | -9.1 | 542.3 | 551.4 | 5.4 | 50.8 | 45.4 | -3.1 | 44.1 | 47.2 | |||
| Current transfers | -74.0 | 90.8 | 164.8 | -91.4 | 86.1 | 177.5 | -2.7 | 15.6 | 18.3 | -10.1 | 6.9 | 17.1 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 11.4 | 25.4 | 14.0 | 14.7 | 25.6 | 11.0 | 3.5 | 4.7 | 1.3 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 1.0 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 162.1 | -4.8 | -21.2 | 29.1 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -141.9 | -338.1 | 196.2 | -127.2 | -398.8 | 271.6 | -21.0 | -22.3 | 1.3 | -32.2 | -45.1 | 12.8 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -109.9 | -276.6 | 163.4 | -104.0 | -285.8 | 181.7 | -13.7 | -19.0 | 5.6 | -26.3 | -33.0 | 6.7 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -28.1 | -61.5 | 32.9 | -22.4 | -113.0 | 89.9 | -7.5 | -3.3 | -4.3 | -5.9 | -12.1 | 6.1 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 355.6 | -508.2 | 863.8 | 246.0 | -363.6 | 609.5 | 3.5 | 27.5 | -24.0 | 54.3 | -13.6 | 68.0 | |||
| Equity | 207.6 | -113.6 | 321.2 | 182.4 | -26.9 | 209.3 | -1.1 | 6.9 | -8.0 | 55.9 | 19.2 | 36.7 | |||
| Debt instruments | 147.9 | -394.6 | 542.6 | 63.6 | -336.6 | 400.2 | 4.6 | 20.6 | -15.9 | -1.6 | -32.9 | 31.3 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 215.7 | -316.0 | 531.6 | 104.9 | -269.0 | 373.8 | 14.0 | 8.9 | 5.1 | 28.0 | 3.5 | 24.4 | |||
| Money market instruments | -67.7 | -78.6 | 10.9 | -41.3 | -67.7 | 26.4 | -9.4 | 11.7 | -21.1 | -29.6 | -36.4 | 6.8 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 213.7 | -846.3 | 1,060.0 | 118.7 | -762.3 | 881.1 | -17.5 | 5.2 | -22.7 | 22.1 | -58.7 | 80.8 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 1.0 | -130.6 | -11.5 | -12.7 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -50.7 | -763.4 | 712.7 | 15.6 | -965.9 | 981.5 | 2.9 | 102.6 | -99.8 | 26.4 | -202.4 | 228.9 | |||
| Eurosystem | 12.3 | -4.9 | 17.3 | 30.6 | -12.1 | 42.6 | 15.0 | -0.6 | 15.6 | 4.4 | -2.5 | 6.9 | |||
| General government | 0.1 | 2.5 | -2.4 | 18.0 | 4.9 | 13.1 | -8.9 | -2.9 | -6.0 | 7.6 | 3.6 | 4.0 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -4.1 | -4.1 | 4.3 | 4.3 | -0.0 | -0.0 | 3.8 | 3.8 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -19.1 | -553.4 | 534.3 | 29.5 | -649.4 | 678.9 | -6.1 | 97.6 | -103.6 | 12.2 | -186.9 | 199.1 | |||
| long-term | -76.1 | -174.3 | 98.2 | -124.3 | -206.2 | 81.9 | -41.1 | -32.1 | -9.0 | -32.0 | -28.9 | -3.1 | |||
| short-term | 57.0 | -379.1 | 436.1 | 153.8 | -443.2 | 597.0 | 35.1 | 129.7 | -94.6 | 44.3 | -157.9 | 202.2 | |||
| Other sectors | -44.1 | -207.6 | 163.4 | -62.5 | -309.4 | 246.9 | 2.8 | 8.6 | -5.8 | 2.2 | -16.6 | 18.8 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -43.4 | -43.4 | -7.9 | -7.9 | 13.8 | 13.8 | -10.6 | -10.6 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -1.8 | -1.8 | -8.6 | -8.6 | 4.9 | 4.9 | -6.8 | -6.8 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -163.5 | -9.7 | 13.4 | -12.3 | |||||||||||