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 | January 2013 (revised) | February 2013 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2012 | February 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 | 21.1 | 3,017.9 | 2,996.8 | 135.3 | 3,149.8 | 3,014.5 | -5.6 | 247.4 | 253.0 | 12.1 | 247.4 | 235.3 | |||
| Goods | 15.5 | 1,816.9 | 1,801.3 | 114.4 | 1,922.6 | 1,808.2 | -2.7 | 151.5 | 154.2 | 12.0 | 152.5 | 140.5 | |||
| Services | 76.0 | 587.9 | 511.9 | 92.1 | 627.0 | 534.9 | 5.2 | 47.9 | 42.7 | 5.9 | 46.0 | 40.1 | |||
| Income | 39.3 | 518.8 | 479.5 | 36.8 | 500.0 | 463.2 | 4.7 | 37.1 | 32.4 | 8.4 | 37.1 | 28.7 | |||
| Current transfers | -109.7 | 94.3 | 204.1 | -108.0 | 100.2 | 208.2 | -12.8 | 11.0 | 23.8 | -14.1 | 11.8 | 25.9 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 11.1 | 24.9 | 13.8 | 14.9 | 29.1 | 14.2 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 0.7 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -25.2 | -171.1 | 1.5 | -18.1 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -107.1 | -419.7 | 312.6 | -63.8 | -209.2 | 145.4 | -8.3 | -9.0 | 0.7 | -1.7 | -14.8 | 13.2 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -42.6 | -359.7 | 317.1 | -33.6 | -160.8 | 127.2 | -13.5 | -18.6 | 5.1 | -4.1 | -9.3 | 5.2 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -64.5 | -60.0 | -4.5 | -30.2 | -48.5 | 18.2 | 5.2 | 9.6 | -4.4 | 2.4 | -5.6 | 8.0 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 167.3 | 29.4 | 137.9 | 103.1 | -181.7 | 284.8 | 29.0 | -27.4 | 56.5 | -8.9 | -39.0 | 30.1 | |||
| Equity | 96.4 | 68.5 | 27.9 | 58.2 | -89.2 | 147.4 | 9.4 | -19.5 | 28.9 | -8.0 | -16.8 | 8.8 | |||
| Debt instruments | 70.9 | -39.1 | 110.0 | 45.0 | -92.5 | 137.5 | 19.7 | -7.9 | 27.6 | -1.0 | -22.2 | 21.3 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 149.1 | -4.6 | 153.7 | 30.7 | -101.6 | 132.2 | 8.0 | -6.0 | 14.0 | -12.8 | -11.9 | -0.9 | |||
| Money market instruments | -78.3 | -34.5 | -43.7 | 14.3 | 9.1 | 5.2 | 11.7 | -1.9 | 13.6 | 11.8 | -10.3 | 22.2 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 60.2 | -390.3 | 450.5 | 39.3 | -390.9 | 430.3 | 20.8 | -36.4 | 57.2 | -10.6 | -53.8 | 43.2 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -8.2 | 19.3 | 6.7 | 5.9 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -69.1 | -103.7 | 34.6 | -216.3 | -11.1 | -205.1 | -21.3 | -55.2 | 33.9 | -16.0 | -16.9 | 0.8 | |||
| Eurosystem | 90.0 | 3.8 | 86.2 | 20.8 | -8.3 | 29.2 | -20.7 | 1.4 | -22.1 | -11.8 | -1.5 | -10.3 | |||
| General government | 56.7 | -1.0 | 57.8 | -4.8 | -5.2 | 0.4 | 11.1 | 9.1 | 2.0 | -1.0 | 0.8 | -1.9 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -6.5 | -6.5 | -1.3 | -1.3 | 6.3 | 6.3 | -2.8 | -2.8 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -203.7 | 32.4 | -236.1 | -197.4 | 90.9 | -288.2 | -24.3 | -61.3 | 37.0 | 13.9 | 8.8 | 5.1 | |||
| Long-term | -18.1 | 0.9 | -19.0 | -3.9 | 38.2 | -42.1 | -3.9 | -2.4 | -1.5 | 6.2 | 14.7 | -8.5 | |||
| Short-term | -185.6 | 31.5 | -217.1 | -193.5 | 52.7 | -246.1 | -20.4 | -58.9 | 38.4 | 7.8 | -5.9 | 13.6 | |||
| Other sectors | -12.1 | -138.8 | 126.7 | -35.0 | -88.5 | 53.5 | 12.6 | -4.4 | 17.0 | -17.1 | -25.0 | 7.9 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -54.9 | -54.9 | -30.9 | -30.9 | -4.2 | -4.2 | -12.2 | -12.2 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -8.1 | -8.1 | -13.5 | -13.5 | -4.7 | -4.7 | 2.6 | 2.6 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -6.9 | 20.9 | 3.4 | 4.5 | |||||||||||