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 | May 2012 (revised) | June 2012 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | June 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 | -23.0 | 2,818.9 | 2,842.0 | 45.3 | 3,047.3 | 3,002.0 | -3.2 | 266.7 | 270.0 | 15.7 | 270.2 | 254.5 | |||
| Goods | -0.3 | 1,693.9 | 1,694.2 | 47.9 | 1,850.1 | 1,802.2 | 5.5 | 161.5 | 156.0 | 14.2 | 164.7 | 150.4 | |||
| Services | 52.4 | 536.8 | 484.4 | 74.0 | 582.6 | 508.6 | 7.2 | 49.8 | 42.6 | 6.9 | 52.7 | 45.7 | |||
| Income | 27.8 | 498.1 | 470.3 | 34.9 | 520.1 | 485.3 | -8.0 | 48.5 | 56.4 | 2.3 | 46.9 | 44.6 | |||
| Current transfers | -102.9 | 90.1 | 193.0 | -111.5 | 94.5 | 206.0 | -8.0 | 7.0 | 15.0 | -7.7 | 6.0 | 13.7 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 5.7 | 20.8 | 15.1 | 11.8 | 27.1 | 15.3 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 1.1 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -1.5 | -52.9 | -0.2 | -17.5 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -98.9 | -290.2 | 191.3 | -109.7 | -312.8 | 203.2 | 9.9 | -6.7 | 16.7 | -30.6 | -39.9 | 9.3 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -65.9 | -233.2 | 168.0 | -30.2 | -246.5 | 216.3 | 8.3 | -7.8 | 16.1 | -11.5 | -24.8 | 13.4 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -33.3 | -57.0 | 23.3 | -79.5 | -66.3 | -13.2 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 0.6 | -19.2 | -15.1 | -4.1 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 319.5 | -151.5 | 471.0 | 41.0 | 8.4 | 32.6 | 26.7 | -5.6 | 32.3 | 59.7 | 28.8 | 30.8 | |||
| Equity | 155.9 | -65.0 | 220.8 | 156.8 | 82.2 | 74.7 | 6.0 | 6.1 | -0.2 | 34.2 | 11.5 | 22.8 | |||
| Debt instruments | 163.6 | -86.6 | 250.2 | -115.8 | -73.7 | -42.1 | 20.7 | -11.8 | 32.5 | 25.4 | 17.4 | 8.0 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 123.4 | -89.3 | 212.7 | -0.3 | -28.2 | 27.9 | 13.7 | -13.1 | 26.7 | 30.8 | -0.2 | 31.1 | |||
| Money market instruments | 40.2 | 2.8 | 37.5 | -115.5 | -45.5 | -69.9 | 7.0 | 1.3 | 5.7 | -5.4 | 17.6 | -23.0 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 220.6 | -441.8 | 662.3 | -68.6 | -304.4 | 235.8 | 36.6 | -12.4 | 49.0 | 29.0 | -11.0 | 40.1 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 19.6 | -35.5 | -6.2 | -1.4 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -227.6 | -221.5 | -6.1 | 64.8 | -77.8 | 142.6 | -29.1 | -85.2 | 56.1 | -40.6 | 47.6 | -88.2 | |||
| Eurosystem | 15.8 | -15.8 | 31.6 | 138.4 | 18.0 | 120.4 | 42.2 | 1.7 | 40.5 | 39.2 | 6.6 | 32.7 | |||
| General government | 68.9 | -23.3 | 92.2 | 40.5 | -6.9 | 47.3 | -2.2 | -5.0 | 2.9 | -2.8 | -0.8 | -1.9 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -0.6 | -0.6 | -11.5 | -11.5 | -3.8 | -3.8 | -1.0 | -1.0 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -271.7 | -82.8 | -188.9 | -93.3 | 47.8 | -141.1 | -48.4 | -49.8 | 1.4 | -66.2 | 61.5 | -127.7 | |||
| Long-term | 65.8 | 38.8 | 26.9 | -34.3 | 7.1 | -41.4 | 9.9 | 4.7 | 5.1 | -9.3 | 7.7 | -17.0 | |||
| Short-term | -337.4 | -121.6 | -215.8 | -59.0 | 40.7 | -99.7 | -58.3 | -54.6 | -3.8 | -56.9 | 53.8 | -110.7 | |||
| Other sectors | -40.5 | -99.6 | 59.0 | -20.8 | -136.7 | 116.0 | -20.7 | -32.0 | 11.4 | -10.9 | -19.7 | 8.7 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -74.1 | -74.1 | -64.2 | -64.2 | -26.7 | -26.7 | -16.0 | -16.0 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -14.0 | -14.0 | -13.6 | -13.6 | -1.5 | -1.5 | -4.5 | -4.5 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 18.8 | -4.2 | 1.9 | 1.4 | |||||||||||