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 | January 2009 (revised) | February 2009 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2008 | February 2009 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 6.8 | 2,728.9 | 2,722.1 | -104.9 | 2,681.8 | 2,786.6 | -19.9 | 181.5 | 201.4 | -2.3 | 192.8 | 195.1 | |||
| Goods | 45.9 | 1,541.4 | 1,495.5 | -10.8 | 1,522.1 | 1,532.9 | -10.1 | 98.5 | 108.6 | 1.5 | 103.1 | 101.6 | |||
| Services | 52.1 | 497.7 | 445.6 | 38.4 | 498.1 | 459.8 | 1.6 | 37.0 | 35.4 | 1.8 | 34.7 | 32.9 | |||
| Income | -3.2 | 600.1 | 603.2 | -36.7 | 573.1 | 609.8 | -1.7 | 40.2 | 41.9 | -0.5 | 39.0 | 39.5 | |||
| Current transfers | -88.0 | 89.7 | 177.7 | -95.8 | 88.4 | 184.1 | -9.7 | 5.7 | 15.5 | -5.1 | 16.0 | 21.0 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 15.0 | 27.1 | 12.0 | 9.1 | 22.3 | 13.2 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 0.6 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 35.1 | 331.9 | 51.2 | -5.4 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -142.0 | -550.0 | 408.0 | -227.9 | -251.3 | 23.5 | -15.9 | -27.2 | 11.3 | -13.2 | -20.6 | 7.4 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -152.5 | -409.8 | 257.8 | -108.2 | -154.5 | 47.1 | -8.8 | -15.1 | 6.3 | -3.5 | -9.0 | 5.5 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | 10.5 | -140.1 | 150.2 | -120.6 | -96.8 | -23.6 | -7.1 | -12.1 | 5.0 | -9.7 | -11.6 | 1.9 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 191.6 | -376.5 | 568.1 | 419.2 | 80.2 | 339.0 | -7.4 | -20.8 | 13.5 | 61.2 | 25.2 | 36.0 | |||
| Equity | 108.1 | -18.3 | 126.4 | -100.5 | 87.7 | -188.2 | -52.3 | -7.8 | -44.5 | 2.3 | 8.0 | -5.7 | |||
| Debt instruments | 83.5 | -358.3 | 441.8 | 519.7 | -7.5 | 527.3 | 44.9 | -13.1 | 58.0 | 58.9 | 17.2 | 41.7 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 152.7 | -253.9 | 406.6 | 231.1 | -55.0 | 286.1 | 16.9 | -10.9 | 27.8 | 48.3 | 12.5 | 35.7 | |||
| Money market instruments | -69.2 | -104.3 | 35.2 | 288.7 | 47.5 | 241.2 | 28.0 | -2.2 | 30.2 | 10.6 | 4.7 | 5.9 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 49.6 | -926.5 | 976.1 | 191.3 | -171.2 | 362.5 | -23.3 | -48.0 | 24.7 | 48.0 | 4.6 | 43.4 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -84.9 | 4.3 | 5.8 | 2.9 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 73.9 | -943.4 | 1,017.3 | 131.7 | 419.6 | -287.8 | 63.3 | 51.2 | 12.1 | -57.4 | 100.3 | -157.7 | |||
| Eurosystem | 59.4 | -21.5 | 80.9 | 208.1 | 15.8 | 192.3 | -56.8 | 2.4 | -59.1 | -24.3 | 3.6 | -27.9 | |||
| General government | 5.4 | 6.0 | -0.6 | 4.7 | -1.9 | 6.6 | -11.4 | -13.4 | 2.1 | 2.9 | 7.8 | -4.9 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -0.9 | -0.9 | -2.2 | -2.2 | -11.3 | -11.3 | 3.2 | 3.2 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 90.4 | -613.1 | 703.5 | -62.1 | 425.4 | -487.5 | 151.8 | 52.6 | 99.2 | -16.2 | 91.0 | -107.2 | |||
| long-term | -97.7 | -190.4 | 92.6 | -242.5 | -181.1 | -61.4 | 3.5 | 13.7 | -10.3 | -21.8 | -4.1 | -17.7 | |||
| short-term | 188.1 | -422.8 | 610.9 | 180.4 | 606.5 | -426.1 | 148.3 | 38.8 | 109.5 | 5.6 | 95.1 | -89.4 | |||
| Other sectors | -81.3 | -314.8 | 233.5 | -19.0 | -19.8 | 0.8 | -20.3 | 9.7 | -30.0 | -19.7 | -2.1 | -17.7 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 8.3 | 8.3 | 55.3 | 55.3 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 2.1 | 2.1 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -3.4 | -3.4 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 1.1 | 1.1 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -57.0 | -236.1 | -32.0 | 6.8 | |||||||||||