Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area ( 1 )
(EUR billions; non−seasonally adjusted data)
| August 2004 | July 2004 (revised) | Monthly average, previous six months | 12-month cumulated figures ending | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2004 - July 2004 | August 2004 | August 2003 | |||||||||||||
| Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | |
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
| ( 1 ) Figures may not add up due to rounding. | |||||||||||||||
| ( 2 ) Financial account: inflows (+); outflows (−). Reserve assets: increase (−); decrease (+). | |||||||||||||||
| ( 3 ) Direct investment: assets refer to direct investment abroad and liabilities to direct investment in the euro area. | |||||||||||||||
| CURRENTACCOUNT | 138.2 | 136.0 | 2.1 | 153.2 | 150.4 | 2.8 | 149.2 | 144.6 | 4.6 | 1744.7 | 1694.5 | 50.2 | 1673.4 | 1645.6 | 27.8 |
| Goods | 85.9 | 80.4 | 5.5 | 98.4 | 84.5 | 13.9 | 94.6 | 83.0 | 11.7 | 1094.9 | 972.6 | 122.3 | 1038.2 | 925.3 | 113.0 |
| Services | 29.2 | 28.5 | 0.7 | 30.7 | 28.9 | 1.8 | 28.4 | 26.5 | 1.9 | 336.0 | 319.1 | 16.9 | 326.7 | 308.9 | 17.8 |
| Income | 17.4 | 16.3 | 1.1 | 19.2 | 25.7 | -6.6 | 20.4 | 24.1 | -3.7 | 231.9 | 266.0 | -34.1 | 225.4 | 273.1 | -47.8 |
| Current transfers | 5.6 | 10.9 | -5.2 | 5.0 | 11.3 | -6.3 | 5.8 | 11.0 | -5.2 | 81.8 | 136.7 | -54.9 | 83.1 | 138.3 | -55.2 |
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 2.0 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 24.1 | 6.1 | 18.0 | 20.1 | 10.8 | 9.3 |
| Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | |
| FINANCIALACCOUNT2) | 0.1 | -12.0 | -2.9 | -46.2 | -88.3 | ||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT3) | 8.8 | -4.4 | 4.4 | -11.7 | 3.2 | -8.5 | -10.5 | 3.1 | -7.4 | -108.5 | 42.4 | -66.1 | -126.0 | 135.4 | 9.4 |
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -7.0 | -4.6 | -11.6 | -9.7 | 5.6 | -4.1 | -9.0 | 3.3 | -5.7 | -99.5 | 65.1 | -34.5 | -103.9 | 115.3 | 11.4 |
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | 15.8 | 0.3 | 16.0 | -2.0 | -2.4 | -4.4 | -1.4 | -0.2 | -1.6 | -8.9 | -22.7 | -31.6 | -22.1 | 20.1 | -2.0 |
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -31.5 | 36.6 | 5.1 | -33.7 | 3.0 | -30.7 | -21.9 | 21.3 | -0.6 | -296.3 | 309.9 | 13.6 | -231.2 | 285.6 | 54.4 |
| Equity | -11.1 | 15.1 | 4.1 | -3.0 | 8.7 | 5.6 | -6.6 | 4.3 | -2.3 | -92.9 | 99.0 | 6.0 | -30.3 | 61.4 | 31.1 |
| Debt instruments | -20.4 | 21.5 | 1.1 | -30.7 | -5.7 | -36.4 | -15.3 | 17.0 | 1.7 | -203.4 | 210.9 | 7.5 | -200.9 | 224.2 | 23.3 |
| Bonds and notes | -14.3 | 14.8 | 0.5 | -12.4 | -1.5 | -13.9 | -11.9 | 16.0 | 4.1 | -139.4 | 185.5 | 46.1 | -164.5 | 191.7 | 27.2 |
| Money market instruments | -6.1 | 6.7 | 0.6 | -18.3 | -4.2 | -22.5 | -3.4 | 1.0 | -2.4 | -64.0 | 25.4 | -38.6 | -36.4 | 32.5 | -3.9 |
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -22.7 | 32.3 | 9.6 | -45.4 | 6.2 | -39.2 | -32.4 | 24.4 | -8.0 | -404.8 | 352.3 | -52.5 | -357.2 | 421.0 | 63.8 |
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -3.1 | -0.9 | 0.6 | -1.7 | -11.5 | ||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -35.3 | 26.6 | -8.6 | 57.5 | -30.0 | 27.5 | -13.2 | 16.1 | 2.9 | -285.7 | 270.8 | -14.9 | -306.5 | 154.7 | -151.7 |
| Eurosystem | -0.2 | 0.1 | -0.2 | -0.3 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 0.1 | -0.1 | -0.0 | -1.1 | 3.3 | 2.2 | -0.6 | 20.5 | 19.9 |
| General government | -0.3 | 0.1 | -0.2 | -0.4 | -0.4 | -0.9 | -0.8 | 0.1 | -0.7 | -1.0 | -5.5 | -6.5 | -5.1 | -2.1 | -7.1 |
| of which: currency and deposits | -0.5 | -0.5 | -0.6 | -0.6 | -0.8 | -0.8 | |||||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -32.0 | 18.8 | -13.2 | 47.6 | -12.5 | 35.1 | -8.7 | 15.3 | 6.6 | -246.7 | 261.5 | 14.9 | -201.8 | 101.4 | -100.4 |
| long-term | -5.2 | 3.4 | -1.8 | 6.8 | -6.5 | 0.3 | -0.8 | -0.6 | -1.4 | -33.8 | 27.6 | -6.2 | -59.7 | 51.9 | -7.8 |
| short-term | -26.8 | 15.4 | -11.3 | 40.7 | -6.0 | 34.8 | -7.9 | 15.9 | 8.0 | -212.8 | 233.9 | 21.1 | -142.2 | 49.6 | -92.6 |
| Other sectors | -2.7 | 7.6 | 4.9 | 10.6 | -18.8 | -8.2 | -3.7 | 0.7 | -3.0 | -36.9 | 11.4 | -25.5 | -98.9 | 34.9 | -64.1 |
| of which: currency and deposits | 0.2 | 0.2 | 5.0 | 5.0 | -1.0 | -1.0 | |||||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 2.4 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 23.0 | 23.0 | 11.2 | 11.2 | |||||
| Errors and omissions | -3.8 | 8.0 | -3.2 | -22.0 | 51.1 | ||||||||||