Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area
(EUR billions; transactions, non−seasonally adjusted data)
| Twelve-month cumulated figures ending | January 2006 (revised) | February 2006 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2005 | February 2006 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 43.5 | 1,862.2 | 1,818.7 | -32.0 | 2,062.6 | 2,094.6 | -9.7 | 164.3 | 174.0 | -1.8 | 175.6 | 177.4 | |||
| Goods | 97.8 | 1,138.2 | 1,040.4 | 39.2 | 1,247.9 | 1,208.7 | -6.4 | 100.7 | 107.1 | -0.3 | 105.0 | 105.3 | |||
| Services | 30.7 | 366.7 | 335.9 | 33.1 | 400.4 | 367.3 | 0.1 | 30.0 | 30.0 | 1.3 | 30.1 | 28.9 | |||
| Income | -24.7 | 275.1 | 299.8 | -40.1 | 326.8 | 366.9 | -1.0 | 24.0 | 25.0 | 1.0 | 24.4 | 23.4 | |||
| Current transfers | -60.3 | 82.2 | 142.6 | -64.2 | 87.4 | 151.7 | -2.3 | 9.6 | 11.9 | -3.7 | 16.0 | 19.7 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 15.3 | 23.8 | 8.5 | 14.2 | 23.4 | 9.2 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.4 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 22.7 | 50.6 | -11.0 | 11.8 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -60.0 | -150.9 | 90.9 | -151.5 | -225.1 | 73.5 | 4.9 | 0.8 | 4.1 | -25.9 | -33.9 | 8.0 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -71.7 | -154.4 | 82.7 | -120.8 | -165.3 | 44.5 | 12.8 | 6.4 | 6.4 | -24.2 | -29.2 | 5.0 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | 11.7 | 3.5 | 8.2 | -30.7 | -59.8 | 29.1 | -7.8 | -5.5 | -2.3 | -1.7 | -4.7 | 3.0 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 57.6 | -337.3 | 394.9 | 136.6 | -472.3 | 608.9 | -37.1 | -66.9 | 29.8 | 19.8 | -44.5 | 64.3 | |||
| Equity | 20.6 | -112.8 | 133.4 | 155.7 | -153.4 | 309.1 | -8.4 | -28.9 | 20.4 | 10.6 | -21.2 | 31.8 | |||
| Debt instruments | 37.0 | -224.5 | 261.5 | -19.1 | -318.9 | 299.8 | -28.7 | -38.1 | 9.4 | 9.2 | -23.3 | 32.6 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 38.7 | -204.6 | 243.2 | -56.6 | -289.4 | 232.8 | -35.6 | -33.9 | -1.7 | -5.4 | -23.4 | 17.9 | |||
| Money market instruments | -1.6 | -19.9 | 18.3 | 37.6 | -29.5 | 67.0 | 6.9 | -4.2 | 11.0 | 14.7 | 0.1 | 14.6 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -2.4 | -488.2 | 485.8 | -14.9 | -697.4 | 682.4 | -32.2 | -66.1 | 33.9 | -6.1 | -78.4 | 72.3 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -9.7 | -16.8 | -2.3 | -3.0 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 24.6 | -332.4 | 357.0 | 67.3 | -574.5 | 641.8 | 25.8 | -103.9 | 129.7 | 19.0 | -25.0 | 44.1 | |||
| Eurosystem | 10.8 | 1.5 | 9.3 | 6.6 | -7.1 | 13.6 | 7.8 | -0.2 | 8.0 | -4.3 | -4.4 | 0.2 | |||
| General government | -4.1 | -3.7 | -0.3 | 1.3 | 5.4 | -4.1 | -1.2 | 1.2 | -2.4 | 0.0 | 1.0 | -1.0 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -3.1 | -3.1 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 39.6 | -268.3 | 307.9 | 112.8 | -363.8 | 476.6 | 46.8 | -71.1 | 117.9 | 34.4 | -1.6 | 36.0 | |||
| long-term | -24.7 | -34.6 | 9.8 | -44.5 | -85.4 | 40.9 | 5.0 | 6.8 | -1.8 | 3.7 | -6.5 | 10.2 | |||
| short-term | 64.4 | -233.7 | 298.1 | 157.3 | -278.4 | 435.8 | 41.7 | -77.9 | 119.7 | 30.7 | 4.9 | 25.8 | |||
| Other sectors | -21.7 | -62.0 | 40.2 | -53.3 | -209.0 | 155.7 | -27.5 | -33.7 | 6.2 | -11.2 | -20.0 | 8.9 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -17.8 | -17.8 | -30.9 | -30.9 | -18.0 | -18.0 | -7.5 | -7.5 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 10.1 | 10.1 | 15.0 | 15.0 | -2.3 | -2.3 | 1.9 | 1.9 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -81.4 | -32.8 | 19.7 | -11.0 | |||||||||||