Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area
(EUR billions; transactions, non−seasonally adjusted data)
| Cumulated figures for the 12-month period ending | November 2006 (revised) | December 2006 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2005 | December 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 | -8.2 | 2,048.4 | 2,056.7 | -16.8 | 2,317.1 | 2,333.9 | 4.5 | 206.8 | 202.3 | 5.0 | 212.7 | 207.7 | |||
| Goods | 48.2 | 1,224.3 | 1,176.1 | 28.4 | 1,387.8 | 1,359.4 | 7.7 | 129.5 | 121.8 | 3.4 | 117.4 | 114.1 | |||
| Services | 36.0 | 400.3 | 364.3 | 36.3 | 427.5 | 391.2 | 2.3 | 34.5 | 32.3 | 2.7 | 37.7 | 35.0 | |||
| Income | -22.2 | 338.9 | 361.1 | -7.7 | 418.9 | 426.6 | 1.9 | 37.5 | 35.6 | 3.0 | 47.2 | 44.2 | |||
| Current transfers | -70.2 | 85.1 | 155.2 | -73.8 | 82.8 | 156.6 | -7.3 | 5.2 | 12.5 | -4.1 | 10.4 | 14.4 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 11.9 | 23.8 | 11.9 | 10.7 | 22.8 | 12.1 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 1.0 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 37.4 | 109.0 | -18.7 | -34.4 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -202.3 | -294.0 | 91.7 | -145.9 | -297.9 | 152.0 | -13.0 | -12.1 | -0.9 | -28.3 | -36.9 | 8.6 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -174.7 | -234.5 | 59.8 | -123.9 | -243.5 | 119.5 | -19.1 | -14.1 | -5.0 | -19.9 | -26.3 | 6.4 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -27.6 | -59.5 | 31.9 | -21.9 | -54.4 | 32.5 | 6.2 | 2.0 | 4.1 | -8.4 | -10.5 | 2.2 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 156.9 | -406.1 | 563.0 | 255.1 | -470.3 | 725.4 | 45.5 | -46.6 | 92.0 | 39.6 | -17.0 | 56.6 | |||
| Equity | 148.2 | -134.6 | 282.8 | 175.9 | -127.7 | 303.6 | 21.2 | -8.1 | 29.3 | 29.0 | -3.9 | 32.9 | |||
| Debt instruments | 8.7 | -271.4 | 280.2 | 79.2 | -342.5 | 421.7 | 24.3 | -38.5 | 62.8 | 10.7 | -13.1 | 23.7 | |||
| Bonds and notes | -14.7 | -257.2 | 242.5 | 134.8 | -287.7 | 422.4 | 16.0 | -35.1 | 51.0 | 46.9 | -8.3 | 55.3 | |||
| Money market instruments | 23.5 | -14.2 | 37.7 | -55.5 | -54.8 | -0.7 | 8.3 | -3.4 | 11.7 | -36.3 | -4.7 | -31.6 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -45.4 | -700.1 | 654.7 | 109.2 | -768.1 | 877.4 | 32.5 | -58.7 | 91.2 | 11.3 | -53.8 | 65.2 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -10.7 | -5.7 | -4.1 | -4.8 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 75.5 | -569.6 | 645.1 | 9.2 | -774.2 | 783.3 | -46.2 | -155.0 | 108.8 | -36.4 | -30.9 | -5.5 | |||
| Eurosystem | 6.1 | -0.6 | 6.7 | 16.5 | -2.2 | 18.7 | 3.8 | 0.6 | 3.2 | 2.3 | -0.2 | 2.5 | |||
| General government | 2.8 | 5.2 | -2.4 | 3.3 | 3.4 | -0.1 | -2.4 | -3.9 | 1.6 | -1.9 | 0.7 | -2.6 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -2.4 | -2.4 | -2.8 | -2.8 | -4.4 | -4.4 | 5.4 | 5.4 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 81.6 | -397.7 | 479.4 | -50.2 | -549.0 | 498.8 | -42.0 | -116.0 | 74.0 | -71.5 | -35.2 | -36.3 | |||
| long-term | -46.9 | -98.6 | 51.7 | -101.2 | -152.6 | 51.4 | -2.2 | -14.2 | 12.0 | -43.2 | -29.1 | -14.1 | |||
| short-term | 128.6 | -299.1 | 427.7 | 51.1 | -396.4 | 447.5 | -39.8 | -101.7 | 61.9 | -28.3 | -6.2 | -22.1 | |||
| Other sectors | -15.0 | -176.5 | 161.5 | 39.6 | -226.3 | 265.9 | -5.6 | -35.7 | 30.1 | 34.6 | 3.7 | 30.8 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -6.6 | -6.6 | 21.2 | 21.2 | -7.3 | -7.3 | 13.7 | 13.7 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 18.0 | 18.0 | -3.7 | -3.7 | -0.8 | -0.8 | -4.4 | -4.4 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -41.1 | -103.0 | 13.1 | 25.3 | |||||||||||