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 | April 2013 (revised) | May 2013 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2012 | May 2013 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 42.1 | 3,054.3 | 3,012.2 | 183.7 | 3,174.6 | 2,990.9 | 16.6 | 265.1 | 248.5 | 9.5 | 266.5 | 257.0 | |||
| Goods | 37.5 | 1,844.0 | 1,806.4 | 146.3 | 1,934.6 | 1,788.3 | 16.3 | 165.4 | 149.1 | 17.1 | 162.8 | 145.7 | |||
| Services | 84.1 | 599.4 | 515.3 | 93.6 | 633.2 | 539.5 | 7.5 | 50.9 | 43.4 | 8.0 | 52.3 | 44.3 | |||
| Income | 35.6 | 514.9 | 479.3 | 54.7 | 508.1 | 453.4 | 2.4 | 42.2 | 39.9 | -7.0 | 44.4 | 51.4 | |||
| Current transfers | -115.1 | 96.1 | 211.1 | -110.9 | 98.8 | 209.6 | -9.5 | 6.5 | 16.1 | -8.6 | 6.9 | 15.6 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 13.1 | 27.3 | 14.1 | 15.6 | 30.8 | 15.2 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 2.3 | 3.1 | 0.8 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -46.7 | -219.3 | -18.5 | -17.0 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -56.4 | -347.8 | 291.4 | -91.6 | -222.8 | 131.3 | -6.9 | -12.9 | 6.1 | 0.4 | -0.1 | 0.5 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | 16.1 | -292.9 | 309.0 | -46.4 | -194.9 | 148.5 | -8.3 | -10.5 | 2.2 | -5.7 | -8.8 | 3.1 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -72.5 | -54.9 | -17.6 | -45.2 | -27.9 | -17.3 | 1.5 | -2.4 | 3.9 | 6.1 | 8.7 | -2.6 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 34.1 | 34.4 | -0.2 | 175.7 | -246.6 | 422.2 | 1.5 | -41.9 | 43.4 | 29.8 | -17.9 | 47.6 | |||
| Equity | 109.1 | 78.9 | 30.1 | 93.4 | -135.2 | 228.5 | -5.8 | -17.3 | 11.6 | 35.7 | -9.1 | 44.9 | |||
| Debt instruments | -74.9 | -44.6 | -30.4 | 82.3 | -111.4 | 193.7 | 7.3 | -24.5 | 31.8 | -6.0 | -8.8 | 2.8 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 31.7 | -9.9 | 41.5 | 61.0 | -115.5 | 176.5 | 22.2 | -5.7 | 27.9 | -7.5 | -5.5 | -2.0 | |||
| Money market instruments | -106.6 | -34.7 | -71.9 | 21.3 | 4.1 | 17.1 | -14.9 | -18.8 | 3.9 | 1.5 | -3.3 | 4.8 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -22.3 | -313.5 | 291.2 | 84.1 | -469.4 | 553.5 | -5.3 | -54.8 | 49.4 | 30.1 | -18.0 | 48.1 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -27.6 | 27.7 | -3.4 | -7.1 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 11.1 | -71.3 | 82.5 | -322.9 | 86.8 | -409.7 | -9.7 | -81.2 | 71.4 | -39.5 | 41.0 | -80.5 | |||
| Eurosystem | 95.7 | 6.7 | 89.0 | 15.7 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 2.1 | 3.1 | -1.1 | -6.1 | 5.2 | -11.3 | |||
| General government | 41.4 | -11.3 | 52.7 | -11.9 | 2.7 | -14.6 | -3.2 | -1.4 | -1.7 | 2.6 | 3.1 | -0.5 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -13.5 | -13.5 | 4.4 | 4.4 | -1.9 | -1.9 | 1.3 | 1.3 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -115.7 | 67.6 | -183.3 | -293.9 | 140.3 | -434.2 | -10.3 | -65.0 | 54.6 | -57.9 | 1.7 | -59.6 | |||
| Long-term | -22.4 | 2.2 | -24.6 | 18.6 | 52.3 | -33.6 | 11.2 | 6.4 | 4.8 | 1.1 | 8.3 | -7.2 | |||
| Short-term | -93.3 | 65.4 | -158.7 | -312.6 | 88.0 | -400.6 | -21.5 | -71.4 | 49.9 | -59.0 | -6.6 | -52.4 | |||
| Other sectors | -10.3 | -134.4 | 124.1 | -32.8 | -64.1 | 31.3 | 1.7 | -17.9 | 19.6 | 22.1 | 31.1 | -9.0 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -47.1 | -47.1 | -27.7 | -27.7 | -22.2 | -22.2 | 11.9 | 11.9 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -8.0 | -8.0 | -8.2 | -8.2 | -0.1 | -0.1 | -0.6 | -0.6 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -8.5 | 20.1 | 0.6 | 5.2 | |||||||||||