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 | August 2010 (revised) | September 2010 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2009 | September 2010 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | -89.6 | 2,328.4 | 2,418.1 | -49.7 | 2,462.6 | 2,512.3 | -10.6 | 201.7 | 212.3 | -9.2 | 220.7 | 230.0 | |||
| Goods | 16.6 | 1,321.9 | 1,305.3 | 33.1 | 1,485.6 | 1,452.5 | -4.3 | 122.6 | 126.8 | 3.4 | 139.5 | 136.1 | |||
| Services | 31.2 | 478.0 | 446.8 | 34.5 | 492.1 | 457.6 | 2.7 | 43.8 | 41.1 | 3.1 | 43.6 | 40.5 | |||
| Income | -38.5 | 440.6 | 479.1 | -13.7 | 399.9 | 413.6 | 0.3 | 30.6 | 30.3 | -4.8 | 32.9 | 37.6 | |||
| Current transfers | -99.0 | 87.9 | 186.9 | -103.6 | 85.0 | 188.6 | -9.4 | 4.8 | 14.1 | -11.0 | 4.7 | 15.7 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 7.2 | 19.5 | 12.3 | 6.7 | 20.8 | 14.1 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 0.9 | -0.5 | 0.8 | 1.3 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 64.6 | 84.5 | 10.4 | 12.6 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -159.5 | -288.4 | 128.9 | -87.4 | -175.4 | 88.0 | -11.1 | -15.9 | 4.8 | -9.6 | -3.9 | -5.7 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -36.8 | -195.3 | 159.0 | 32.1 | -108.2 | 140.4 | -16.1 | -20.7 | 4.6 | -11.5 | 1.7 | -13.2 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -123.5 | -93.1 | -30.1 | -119.6 | -67.2 | -52.4 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 0.2 | 2.0 | -5.6 | 7.6 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 366.6 | 122.8 | 243.8 | 160.2 | -136.8 | 296.9 | 11.5 | -22.7 | 34.3 | 16.5 | -15.1 | 31.7 | |||
| Equity | 36.7 | 46.3 | -9.6 | -6.3 | -72.4 | 66.2 | 25.5 | 0.1 | 25.4 | -10.6 | -10.9 | 0.3 | |||
| Debt instruments | 329.9 | 76.5 | 253.4 | 166.4 | -64.3 | 230.8 | -14.0 | -22.8 | 8.8 | 27.2 | -4.2 | 31.4 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 126.3 | 62.0 | 64.3 | 89.1 | -66.6 | 155.7 | -22.3 | -13.8 | -8.5 | 33.7 | 7.1 | 26.7 | |||
| Money market instruments | 203.6 | 14.6 | 189.1 | 77.4 | 2.3 | 75.1 | 8.3 | -9.0 | 17.3 | -6.6 | -11.3 | 4.7 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 207.1 | -165.6 | 372.7 | 72.7 | -312.2 | 384.9 | 0.5 | -38.6 | 39.1 | 7.0 | -19.0 | 26.0 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 11.0 | 22.0 | 3.9 | -1.9 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -157.6 | 740.0 | -897.6 | -1.7 | -86.1 | 84.3 | 7.6 | -79.1 | 86.6 | 7.7 | 29.0 | -21.3 | |||
| Eurosystem | -93.8 | 12.6 | -106.4 | -17.9 | 3.3 | -21.3 | -1.3 | 0.9 | -2.3 | 0.3 | -0.5 | 0.8 | |||
| General government | 19.4 | -6.0 | 25.3 | 3.2 | -10.5 | 13.7 | 0.2 | -0.6 | 0.7 | 5.2 | 1.8 | 3.4 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 0.0 | 0.0 | -0.6 | -0.6 | -1.0 | -1.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -29.3 | 646.8 | -676.1 | -21.7 | -32.0 | 10.2 | 1.4 | -71.6 | 73.0 | -0.1 | 37.6 | -37.7 | |||
| Long-term | -83.1 | 9.0 | -92.1 | 56.9 | 30.4 | 26.4 | 4.5 | -3.0 | 7.5 | 3.1 | 5.9 | -2.8 | |||
| Short-term | 53.8 | 637.8 | -584.0 | -78.6 | -62.4 | -16.2 | -3.1 | -68.6 | 65.5 | -3.1 | 31.7 | -34.8 | |||
| Other sectors | -53.8 | 86.6 | -140.4 | 34.7 | -47.0 | 81.6 | 7.3 | -7.9 | 15.2 | 2.3 | -9.9 | 12.3 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 39.0 | 39.0 | 9.3 | 9.3 | -16.3 | -16.3 | 3.0 | 3.0 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 4.0 | 4.0 | -8.5 | -8.5 | -1.6 | -1.6 | -0.2 | -0.2 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 17.8 | -41.5 | -0.1 | -2.9 | |||||||||||