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)
| Q2 2004 | Q3 2004 | Q4 2004 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| End of periodoutstandingamounts | Transactions ( 1 ) | Other changes | End of periodoutstandingamounts | Transactions ( 1 ) | Other changes | End of period outstandingamounts | |||||||||
| as % ofprevious endperiodoutstandingamounts | as % ofprevious endperiodoutstandingamounts | 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 | -706.4 | -3.1 | - | -4.6 | -714.1 | -4.6 | - | -97.1 | -815.8 | -10.8 | |||||
| Direct investment | 134.4 | -1.1 | - | -21.2 | 112.1 | 14.0 | - | -51.8 | 74.2 | 1.0 | |||||
| Abroad | 2188.7 | 16.4 | 0.8 | -3.1 | 2202.0 | 44.2 | 2.0 | -46.7 | 2199.5 | 29.1 | |||||
| Equity/reinvested earnings | 1709.1 | 27.5 | 1.6 | 20.8 | 1757.4 | 49.2 | 2.8 | -42.3 | 1764.3 | 23.3 | |||||
| Other capital | 479.6 | -11.1 | -2.3 | -23.9 | 444.6 | -5.0 | -1.1 | -4.3 | 435.2 | 5.8 | |||||
| In the euro area | 2054.3 | 17.6 | 0.9 | 18.1 | 2090.0 | 30.2 | 1.4 | 5.1 | 2125.3 | 28.1 | |||||
| Equity/reinvested earnings | 1494.5 | 17.7 | 1.2 | 3.1 | 1515.4 | 27.9 | 1.8 | 6.8 | 1550.0 | 20.5 | |||||
| Other capital | 559.8 | -0.1 | -0.0 | 15.0 | 574.6 | 2.3 | 0.4 | -1.7 | 575.3 | 7.6 | |||||
| Portfolio investment | -842.3 | -7.2 | - | -16.3 | -865.8 | -23.1 | - | -21.7 | -910.6 | -12.0 | |||||
| Assets | 2821.9 | 64.3 | 2.3 | -16.7 | 2869.5 | 69.7 | 2.4 | -7.8 | 2931.5 | 38.8 | |||||
| Equity securities | 1165.2 | 6.4 | 0.6 | -16.3 | 1155.3 | 20.3 | 1.8 | 22.4 | 1198.0 | 15.8 | |||||
| Debt securities | 1656.8 | 57.9 | 3.5 | -0.4 | 1714.2 | 49.4 | 2.9 | -30.2 | 1733.5 | 22.9 | |||||
| Bonds and notes | 1397.5 | 37.3 | 2.7 | 3.9 | 1438.8 | 40.1 | 2.8 | -20.2 | 1458.7 | 19.3 | |||||
| Money market instruments | 259.2 | 20.5 | 7.9 | -4.3 | 275.5 | 9.3 | 3.4 | -10.0 | 274.8 | 3.6 | |||||
| Liabilities | 3664.2 | 71.5 | 2.0 | -0.4 | 3735.3 | 92.8 | 2.5 | 13.9 | 3842.1 | 50.8 | |||||
| Equity securities | 1620.0 | 38.5 | 2.4 | -26.1 | 1632.3 | 66.6 | 4.1 | 55.3 | 1754.2 | 23.2 | |||||
| Debt securities | 2044.2 | 33.0 | 1.6 | 25.8 | 2103.0 | 26.2 | 1.2 | -41.4 | 2087.8 | 27.6 | |||||
| Bonds and notes | 1819.2 | 39.9 | 2.2 | 32.0 | 1891.1 | 31.9 | 1.7 | -29.4 | 1893.5 | 25.0 | |||||
| Money market instruments | 225.1 | -6.9 | -3.1 | -6.2 | 211.9 | -5.6 | -2.7 | -12.0 | 194.3 | 2.6 | |||||
| Financial derivatives | -10.2 | 1.0 | - | 2.7 | -6.5 | 5.1 | - | -12.2 | -13.6 | -0.2 | |||||
| Other investment | -290.5 | 7.7 | - | 30.4 | -252.4 | 2.0 | - | 4.0 | -246.4 | -3.3 | |||||
| Assets | 2854.2 | 17.9 | 0.6 | 19.9 | 2892.0 | 74.1 | 2.6 | -82.4 | 2883.8 | 38.1 | |||||
| Eurosystem | 4.9 | -1.5 | -31.2 | 2.8 | 6.2 | 1.7 | 26.8 | -2.8 | 5.1 | 0.1 | |||||
| General government | 101.5 | -0.2 | -0.2 | -0.8 | 100.4 | -3.4 | -3.4 | 4.4 | 101.4 | 1.3 | |||||
| MFIs excluding Eurosystem | 1968.6 | 24.2 | 1.2 | -17.6 | 1975.2 | 74.3 | 3.8 | -66.5 | 1983.0 | 26.2 | |||||
| Other sectors | 779.2 | -7.6 | -1.0 | 38.5 | 810.1 | 5.0 | 0.6 | -20.8 | 794.3 | 10.5 | |||||
| Liabilities | 3144.7 | 10.2 | 0.3 | -10.5 | 3144.4 | 72.2 | 2.3 | -86.4 | 3130.2 | 41.4 | |||||
| Eurosystem | 66.3 | 3.2 | 4.8 | 0.3 | 69.7 | 3.7 | 5.4 | -1.9 | 71.5 | 0.9 | |||||
| General government | 42.5 | 2.2 | 5.2 | -0.6 | 44.1 | -1.7 | -3.9 | 2.2 | 44.5 | 0.6 | |||||
| MFIs excluding Eurosystem | 2491.7 | 6.5 | 0.3 | -22.4 | 2475.7 | 59.3 | 2.4 | -70.9 | 2464.2 | 32.6 | |||||
| Other sectors | 544.2 | -1.7 | -0.3 | 12.3 | 554.8 | 10.9 | 2.0 | -15.8 | 550.0 | 7.3 | |||||
| Reserve assets | 302.2 | -3.5 | -1.2 | -0.2 | 298.5 | -2.5 | -0.8 | -15.5 | 280.6 | 3.7 | |||||