Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area
(EUR billions; transactions; non−working day and non−seasonally adjusted data)
| Cumulated figures for the 12-month period ending | January 2012 (revised) | February 2012 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2011 | February 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | -14.2 | 2,723.9 | 2,738.1 | 3.1 | 2,964.8 | 2,961.7 | -10.1 | 235.8 | 245.9 | -5.9 | 242.6 | 248.5 | |||
| Goods | 6.3 | 1,619.9 | 1,613.6 | 11.4 | 1,802.8 | 1,791.4 | -9.2 | 142.9 | 152.1 | 2.4 | 152.7 | 150.2 | |||
| Services | 51.0 | 531.5 | 480.5 | 60.1 | 550.8 | 490.8 | 2.2 | 41.1 | 38.9 | 2.7 | 40.9 | 38.2 | |||
| Income | 29.9 | 482.4 | 452.5 | 32.0 | 517.5 | 485.6 | 4.1 | 42.3 | 38.1 | 5.0 | 37.8 | 32.8 | |||
| Current transfers | -101.4 | 90.0 | 191.4 | -100.3 | 93.7 | 194.0 | -7.3 | 9.5 | 16.8 | -16.0 | 11.2 | 27.2 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 6.5 | 21.4 | 14.9 | 10.1 | 24.8 | 14.7 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 0.8 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -6.6 | -13.8 | 10.4 | 3.2 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -134.6 | -329.0 | 194.4 | -130.4 | -307.4 | 177.1 | -6.4 | -26.8 | 20.4 | -5.3 | -12.4 | 7.2 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -42.5 | -220.1 | 178.2 | -69.7 | -269.4 | 199.7 | -3.4 | -27.1 | 23.8 | -4.9 | -13.7 | 8.8 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -92.4 | -108.9 | 16.3 | -60.7 | -38.0 | -22.6 | -3.0 | 0.4 | -3.4 | -0.4 | 1.2 | -1.6 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 203.9 | -157.3 | 361.2 | 219.7 | 35.9 | 183.9 | -43.4 | -28.3 | -15.1 | 18.0 | -26.9 | 44.9 | |||
| Equity | 142.5 | -60.3 | 202.7 | 128.6 | 63.5 | 65.1 | 7.0 | -2.9 | 9.9 | -4.6 | -3.5 | -1.0 | |||
| Debt instruments | 61.4 | -97.0 | 158.4 | 91.1 | -27.6 | 118.8 | -50.4 | -25.4 | -24.9 | 22.6 | -23.4 | 46.0 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 43.5 | -114.7 | 158.2 | 157.0 | -9.1 | 166.1 | -52.5 | -20.5 | -32.0 | 25.4 | -19.2 | 44.6 | |||
| Money market instruments | 17.9 | 17.6 | 0.2 | -65.9 | -18.5 | -47.4 | 2.1 | -5.0 | 7.1 | -2.8 | -4.1 | 1.4 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 69.3 | -486.3 | 555.6 | 89.4 | -271.6 | 361.0 | -49.8 | -55.1 | 5.3 | 12.8 | -39.3 | 52.1 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 20.2 | -19.7 | -4.1 | 6.2 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -82.8 | -195.9 | 113.1 | -75.7 | -68.4 | -7.3 | 64.8 | -14.4 | 79.3 | -14.0 | -16.9 | 2.9 | |||
| Eurosystem | 16.7 | -7.6 | 24.3 | 91.4 | 4.4 | 87.0 | -37.6 | -1.8 | -35.8 | -0.1 | -0.1 | 0.1 | |||
| General government | 40.1 | -40.4 | 80.5 | 59.2 | 2.4 | 56.8 | 7.9 | 1.6 | 6.3 | 6.2 | 8.3 | -2.1 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -4.9 | -4.9 | -6.1 | -6.1 | -0.6 | -0.6 | 6.4 | 6.4 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -92.9 | -32.8 | -60.1 | -208.3 | 34.3 | -242.6 | 100.8 | -5.5 | 106.3 | -18.3 | -12.0 | -6.2 | |||
| Long-term | 74.8 | 31.5 | 43.3 | -19.8 | 0.4 | -20.2 | 18.6 | 1.6 | 17.0 | 0.8 | -0.5 | 1.3 | |||
| Short-term | -167.6 | -64.3 | -103.4 | -188.5 | 33.9 | -222.4 | 82.2 | -7.1 | 89.3 | -19.0 | -11.5 | -7.5 | |||
| Other sectors | -46.8 | -115.1 | 68.3 | -18.0 | -109.4 | 91.5 | -6.3 | -8.7 | 2.5 | -1.9 | -13.1 | 11.1 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -47.0 | -47.0 | -48.0 | -48.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | -4.3 | -4.3 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -13.2 | -13.2 | -7.7 | -7.7 | -0.5 | -0.5 | -1.8 | -1.8 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 14.3 | 0.6 | -0.4 | 1.0 | |||||||||||