Table 2: Quarterly balance of payments and international investment position of the euro area
(EUR billions, unless otherwise indicated; outstanding amounts at end of period, transactions during period)
| Q1 2007 | Q2 2007 (revised) | Q3 2007 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| End-of-periodoutstandingamounts | Transactions1) | Other changes | End-of-periodoutstandingamounts | Transactions1) | Other changes | End-of-period outstandingamounts | |||||||||
| as % ofpreviousend-periodoutstandingamounts | as % ofpreviousend-periodoutstandingamounts | as % of GDP | |||||||||||||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
| ( 1 ) In this table, contrary to the balance of payments sign convention, a positive (negative) number indicates an increase (decrease) of euro area assets. | |||||||||||||||
| Financial account balance/Net international investment position | -1,067.6 | -23.6 | - | -88.4 | -1,179.6 | -90.6 | - | -28.8 | -1,298.9 | -14.7 | |||||
| Direct investment | 430.7 | 66.8 | - | 22.4 | 520.0 | 37.8 | - | -60.6 | 497.2 | 5.6 | |||||
| Abroad | 3,141.8 | 111.6 | 3.6 | 64.7 | 3,318.0 | 109.4 | 3.3 | -53.4 | 3,374.0 | 38.1 | |||||
| Equity/reinvested earnings | 2,547.2 | 88.5 | 3.5 | 44.4 | 2,680.1 | 75.5 | 2.8 | -25.8 | 2,729.8 | 30.9 | |||||
| Other capital | 594.6 | 23.0 | 3.9 | 20.4 | 638.0 | 33.9 | 5.3 | -27.6 | 644.2 | 7.3 | |||||
| In the euro area | 2,711.0 | 44.7 | 1.6 | 42.3 | 2,798.1 | 71.6 | 2.6 | 7.2 | 2,876.9 | 32.5 | |||||
| Equity/reinvested earnings | 2,060.5 | 47.0 | 2.3 | 36.8 | 2,144.3 | 43.2 | 2.0 | 13.0 | 2,200.5 | 24.9 | |||||
| Other capital | 650.5 | -2.3 | -0.3 | 5.5 | 653.7 | 28.5 | 4.4 | -5.8 | 676.4 | 7.6 | |||||
| Portfolio investment | -1,680.4 | -72.4 | - | -64.0 | -1,816.9 | -76.2 | - | 28.7 | -1,864.3 | -21.1 | |||||
| Assets | 4,592.1 | 153.0 | 3.3 | 67.6 | 4,812.7 | 34.0 | 0.7 | -26.3 | 4,820.4 | 54.5 | |||||
| Equity securities | 2,061.5 | 12.0 | 0.6 | 103.4 | 2,176.9 | 7.8 | 0.4 | -4.3 | 2,180.4 | 24.6 | |||||
| Debt securities | 2,530.6 | 141.0 | 5.6 | -35.9 | 2,635.8 | 26.3 | 1.0 | -22.0 | 2,640.0 | 29.8 | |||||
| Liabilities | 6,272.5 | 225.4 | 3.6 | 131.6 | 6,629.5 | 110.2 | 1.7 | -55.0 | 6,684.7 | 75.6 | |||||
| Equity securities | 3,063.0 | 71.2 | 2.3 | 180.5 | 3,314.8 | 43.7 | 1.3 | -38.6 | 3,319.9 | 37.5 | |||||
| Debt securities | 3,209.5 | 154.2 | 4.8 | -48.9 | 3,314.8 | 66.5 | 2.0 | -16.4 | 3,364.9 | 38.0 | |||||
| Financial derivatives | -25.5 | 23.2 | - | -9.2 | -11.4 | 32.5 | - | -21.6 | -0.5 | -0.0 | |||||
| Other investment | -124.0 | -45.4 | - | -27.3 | -196.6 | -88.2 | - | 13.1 | -271.8 | -3.1 | |||||
| Assets | 4,768.6 | 190.3 | 4.0 | -15.4 | 4,943.5 | 227.8 | 4.6 | -81.2 | 5,090.2 | 57.5 | |||||
| Eurosystem | 13.9 | 3.5 | 25.2 | -0.1 | 17.3 | 1.7 | 9.8 | 0.5 | 19.5 | 0.2 | |||||
| MFIs excluding Eurosystem | 3,215.8 | 130.6 | 4.1 | -12.7 | 3,333.7 | 77.5 | 2.3 | -59.3 | 3,351.9 | 37.9 | |||||
| General government | 109.1 | 17.6 | 16.1 | -0.7 | 125.9 | -18.2 | -14.4 | -1.7 | 106.1 | 1.2 | |||||
| Other sectors | 1,429.8 | 38.7 | 2.7 | -1.9 | 1,466.6 | 166.8 | 11.4 | -20.6 | 1,612.7 | 18.2 | |||||
| Liabilities | 4,892.5 | 235.7 | 4.8 | 11.9 | 5,140.1 | 316.1 | 6.1 | -94.2 | 5,361.9 | 60.6 | |||||
| Eurosystem | 105.5 | 10.9 | 10.3 | -0.2 | 116.1 | -1.3 | -1.1 | -0.8 | 114.1 | 1.3 | |||||
| MFIs excluding Eurosystem | 3,712.3 | 180.5 | 4.9 | -15.8 | 3,877.0 | 131.7 | 3.4 | -74.7 | 3,934.0 | 44.5 | |||||
| General government | 50.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 50.9 | 3.9 | 7.7 | -0.1 | 54.7 | 0.6 | |||||
| Other sectors | 1,024.4 | 44.2 | 4.3 | 27.4 | 1,096.1 | 181.6 | 16.6 | -18.6 | 1,259.1 | 14.2 | |||||
| Reserve assets | 331.5 | 4.2 | 1.3 | -10.4 | 325.3 | 3.6 | 1.1 | 11.6 | 340.5 | 3.8 | |||||