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 | January 2007 (revised) | February 2007 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2006 | February 2007 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | -19.5 | 2,109.9 | 2,129.4 | -4.4 | 2,380.7 | 2,385.1 | -4.5 | 192.2 | 196.7 | -7.2 | 196.5 | 203.7 | |||
| Goods | 33.2 | 1,254.4 | 1,221.3 | 35.1 | 1,412.5 | 1,377.3 | -3.0 | 113.4 | 116.4 | 1.5 | 116.9 | 115.4 | |||
| Services | 35.5 | 409.4 | 373.9 | 36.3 | 432.7 | 396.3 | 0.6 | 33.4 | 32.7 | 2.6 | 33.4 | 30.8 | |||
| Income | -15.8 | 362.7 | 378.5 | -1.2 | 447.0 | 448.3 | -1.1 | 36.1 | 37.1 | 0.2 | 33.9 | 33.7 | |||
| Current transfers | -72.3 | 83.3 | 155.6 | -74.6 | 88.6 | 163.1 | -1.0 | 9.3 | 10.4 | -11.4 | 12.4 | 23.8 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 13.9 | 24.5 | 10.5 | 13.4 | 25.6 | 12.2 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 0.5 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 18.9 | 142.9 | 42.1 | -7.2 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -220.4 | -321.2 | 100.8 | -147.7 | -317.9 | 170.2 | -12.3 | -24.3 | 12.0 | -12.6 | -29.4 | 16.8 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -179.7 | -254.5 | 74.9 | -146.7 | -265.8 | 119.1 | -23.8 | -25.8 | 2.0 | -2.4 | -10.2 | 7.7 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -40.6 | -66.7 | 25.9 | -1.0 | -52.1 | 51.1 | 11.6 | 1.5 | 10.1 | -10.2 | -19.2 | 9.0 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 122.7 | -466.9 | 589.7 | 350.3 | -458.3 | 808.6 | 35.4 | -62.8 | 98.2 | 28.6 | -53.1 | 81.7 | |||
| Equity | 146.1 | -167.6 | 313.7 | 211.8 | -90.6 | 302.4 | 34.3 | -9.4 | 43.6 | 17.3 | -22.3 | 39.7 | |||
| Debt instruments | -23.4 | -299.4 | 276.0 | 138.4 | -367.8 | 506.2 | 1.2 | -53.4 | 54.6 | 11.2 | -30.8 | 42.0 | |||
| Bonds and notes | -42.1 | -274.7 | 232.6 | 207.4 | -298.2 | 505.6 | -7.6 | -43.3 | 35.7 | 10.3 | -28.3 | 38.6 | |||
| Money market instruments | 18.7 | -24.7 | 43.4 | -69.0 | -69.5 | 0.6 | 8.8 | -10.1 | 18.9 | 0.9 | -2.5 | 3.4 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -97.7 | -788.1 | 690.5 | 202.6 | -776.2 | 978.8 | 23.2 | -87.1 | 110.3 | 16.0 | -82.5 | 98.4 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -14.4 | -10.1 | -4.9 | -7.8 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 116.6 | -599.0 | 715.6 | -45.0 | -870.8 | 825.8 | 26.9 | -141.9 | 168.8 | -14.7 | -126.1 | 111.4 | |||
| Eurosystem | 7.9 | -6.1 | 13.9 | 15.9 | -3.5 | 19.3 | 4.2 | -1.5 | 5.7 | -3.1 | -3.5 | 0.4 | |||
| General government | 5.7 | 8.2 | -2.6 | 2.4 | -0.5 | 2.8 | -4.3 | 1.0 | -5.3 | 4.7 | 0.1 | 4.6 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 1.9 | 1.9 | -3.4 | -3.4 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.6 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 108.3 | -376.7 | 485.0 | -72.1 | -629.3 | 557.2 | 53.0 | -91.7 | 144.7 | -11.6 | -89.7 | 78.1 | |||
| long-term | -33.4 | -79.9 | 46.5 | -73.5 | -164.2 | 90.8 | -17.7 | -27.1 | 9.4 | 3.6 | -4.2 | 7.8 | |||
| short-term | 141.8 | -296.8 | 438.5 | 1.4 | -465.1 | 466.4 | 70.7 | -64.6 | 135.3 | -15.2 | -85.5 | 70.3 | |||
| Other sectors | -5.3 | -224.5 | 219.2 | 9.0 | -237.5 | 246.5 | -26.0 | -49.6 | 23.6 | -4.8 | -33.0 | 28.2 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -12.2 | -12.2 | 5.5 | 5.5 | -30.7 | -30.7 | -10.3 | -10.3 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 14.4 | 14.4 | -4.6 | -4.6 | -3.1 | -3.1 | -0.6 | -0.6 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -13.4 | -152.0 | -40.1 | 13.0 | |||||||||||