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 | May 2006 (revised) | June 2006 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | June 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 | 24.2 | 1,912.3 | 1,888.1 | -42.8 | 2,168.2 | 2,210.9 | -11.5 | 196.6 | 208.1 | 5.5 | 202.4 | 196.9 | |||
| Goods | 78.9 | 1,161.4 | 1,082.4 | 22.0 | 1,306.7 | 1,284.7 | 0.9 | 116.1 | 115.2 | 4.4 | 118.7 | 114.4 | |||
| Services | 30.4 | 374.5 | 344.1 | 37.4 | 416.2 | 378.9 | 4.1 | 35.8 | 31.7 | 4.5 | 37.4 | 32.9 | |||
| Income | -23.4 | 293.2 | 316.6 | -35.4 | 362.0 | 397.3 | -11.3 | 39.0 | 50.3 | 1.2 | 40.3 | 39.1 | |||
| Current transfers | -61.7 | 83.3 | 145.0 | -66.7 | 83.3 | 150.0 | -5.2 | 5.7 | 10.9 | -4.6 | 6.0 | 10.6 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 15.0 | 24.1 | 9.1 | 11.8 | 22.3 | 10.5 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 1.0 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 72.3 | 152.4 | 37.1 | 15.1 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -53.0 | -157.5 | 104.5 | -143.4 | -243.5 | 100.1 | -0.4 | -15.4 | 15.0 | -8.7 | -10.2 | 1.5 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -67.5 | -149.7 | 82.3 | -121.3 | -184.4 | 63.2 | -3.9 | -13.7 | 9.8 | -5.9 | -8.5 | 2.6 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | 14.4 | -7.7 | 22.2 | -22.1 | -59.1 | 37.0 | 3.6 | -1.7 | 5.3 | -2.8 | -1.7 | -1.1 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 154.7 | -369.2 | 523.9 | 187.4 | -464.0 | 651.5 | 49.3 | -12.8 | 62.2 | 71.4 | -0.5 | 71.9 | |||
| Equity | 102.8 | -85.2 | 188.0 | 205.0 | -175.1 | 380.2 | 5.5 | 12.8 | -7.3 | 65.8 | 4.0 | 61.8 | |||
| Debt instruments | 52.0 | -284.0 | 335.9 | -17.6 | -288.9 | 271.3 | 43.8 | -25.7 | 69.5 | 5.6 | -4.5 | 10.1 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 49.1 | -243.9 | 293.1 | -21.2 | -268.8 | 247.7 | 43.5 | -20.0 | 63.4 | 16.0 | -7.0 | 23.0 | |||
| Money market instruments | 2.8 | -40.0 | 42.8 | 3.5 | -20.1 | 23.6 | 0.3 | -5.7 | 6.0 | -10.4 | 2.5 | -13.0 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 101.7 | -526.7 | 628.4 | 44.0 | -707.6 | 751.6 | 49.0 | -28.2 | 77.2 | 62.8 | -10.7 | 73.4 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -10.6 | -18.6 | 2.3 | 2.4 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -32.6 | -439.1 | 406.5 | 111.0 | -577.4 | 688.5 | -12.6 | -78.5 | 66.0 | -51.5 | 45.7 | -97.3 | |||
| Eurosystem | 11.0 | -0.9 | 11.9 | 9.1 | -3.3 | 12.4 | 5.6 | 0.0 | 5.5 | -1.2 | 0.3 | -1.4 | |||
| General government | -1.5 | 0.2 | -1.6 | -5.6 | -0.8 | -4.8 | -9.6 | -4.7 | -4.8 | -3.3 | -3.5 | 0.1 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -2.3 | -2.3 | -6.5 | -6.5 | -5.1 | -5.1 | -3.7 | -3.7 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -15.5 | -321.6 | 306.0 | 110.7 | -361.0 | 471.7 | -4.4 | -46.4 | 42.0 | -62.9 | 48.7 | -111.6 | |||
| long-term | -21.5 | -47.0 | 25.6 | -50.7 | -105.7 | 55.0 | -5.4 | -9.1 | 3.6 | -6.7 | -17.5 | 10.8 | |||
| short-term | 5.9 | -274.5 | 280.5 | 161.4 | -255.3 | 416.7 | 1.1 | -37.3 | 38.4 | -56.1 | 66.3 | -122.4 | |||
| Other sectors | -26.6 | -116.8 | 90.2 | -3.2 | -212.5 | 209.2 | -4.2 | -27.5 | 23.3 | 15.8 | 0.2 | 15.6 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -9.7 | -9.7 | -21.1 | -21.1 | -6.9 | -6.9 | 7.7 | 7.7 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 13.8 | 13.8 | 16.0 | 16.0 | -1.7 | -1.7 | 1.5 | 1.5 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -111.5 | -121.5 | -26.2 | -21.4 | |||||||||||