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 | October 2007 (revised) | November 2007 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2006 | November 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 | -26.2 | 2,343.2 | 2,369.4 | 24.0 | 2,590.8 | 2,566.8 | 3.9 | 230.7 | 226.8 | 1.0 | 223.3 | 222.2 | |||
| Goods | 19.7 | 1,382.7 | 1,363.0 | 65.8 | 1,504.6 | 1,438.8 | 8.7 | 140.5 | 131.8 | 5.1 | 136.4 | 131.3 | |||
| Services | 33.7 | 425.1 | 391.4 | 43.4 | 462.1 | 418.7 | 3.1 | 41.0 | 37.8 | 2.0 | 37.1 | 35.1 | |||
| Income | 4.7 | 454.5 | 449.8 | -5.1 | 536.7 | 541.8 | 2.3 | 44.9 | 42.6 | 1.0 | 44.6 | 43.7 | |||
| Current transfers | -84.2 | 81.0 | 165.2 | -80.0 | 87.4 | 167.5 | -10.3 | 4.3 | 14.6 | -7.0 | 5.1 | 12.2 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 8.6 | 23.4 | 14.8 | 14.4 | 26.4 | 12.0 | 1.2 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 1.1 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 123.4 | -6.3 | -80.6 | -11.7 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -130.2 | -336.4 | 206.3 | -111.5 | -392.6 | 281.0 | 21.3 | -24.0 | 45.3 | 11.0 | -18.2 | 29.1 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -115.5 | -288.6 | 173.1 | -89.2 | -277.7 | 188.5 | 5.9 | -24.2 | 30.1 | -2.9 | -9.8 | 6.9 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -14.8 | -47.9 | 33.1 | -22.3 | -114.9 | 92.6 | 15.3 | 0.2 | 15.2 | 13.8 | -8.4 | 22.2 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 250.6 | -539.7 | 790.3 | 256.8 | -466.0 | 722.8 | -56.1 | -68.2 | 12.1 | 10.2 | -33.3 | 43.5 | |||
| Equity | 162.2 | -170.3 | 332.5 | 190.2 | -69.5 | 259.8 | -7.0 | -9.6 | 2.7 | -15.1 | -12.1 | -3.0 | |||
| Debt instruments | 88.4 | -369.4 | 457.8 | 66.6 | -396.4 | 463.0 | -49.1 | -58.6 | 9.4 | 25.3 | -21.2 | 46.5 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 132.5 | -304.2 | 436.8 | 118.9 | -325.9 | 444.9 | -11.8 | -32.5 | 20.7 | 28.1 | -25.9 | 54.0 | |||
| Money market instruments | -44.2 | -65.2 | 21.0 | -52.3 | -70.5 | 18.2 | -37.4 | -26.1 | -11.3 | -2.7 | 4.7 | -7.5 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 120.4 | -876.1 | 996.6 | 145.3 | -858.5 | 1,003.8 | -34.9 | -92.2 | 57.4 | 21.2 | -51.4 | 72.6 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 4.3 | -117.7 | -6.9 | -33.2 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -9.2 | -628.6 | 619.4 | -22.4 | -1,024.0 | 1,001.7 | -38.3 | -136.7 | 98.3 | 0.1 | -75.7 | 75.8 | |||
| Eurosystem | 12.0 | -2.0 | 14.0 | 15.1 | -11.4 | 26.4 | 2.5 | -1.3 | 3.8 | 6.5 | 1.5 | 5.0 | |||
| General government | -1.0 | -0.9 | -0.1 | 16.6 | 9.4 | 7.2 | 6.1 | 4.3 | 1.8 | -0.9 | -3.4 | 2.5 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -10.5 | -10.5 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 4.3 | 4.3 | -4.3 | -4.3 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -0.9 | -426.3 | 425.4 | 10.5 | -683.2 | 693.7 | -11.5 | -101.5 | 89.9 | 3.9 | -57.4 | 61.3 | |||
| long-term | -56.9 | -146.6 | 89.7 | -97.7 | -189.9 | 92.2 | -20.9 | -24.7 | 3.8 | 29.1 | 25.0 | 4.1 | |||
| short-term | 56.0 | -279.7 | 335.7 | 108.2 | -493.3 | 601.5 | 9.4 | -76.8 | 86.2 | -25.2 | -82.4 | 57.2 | |||
| Other sectors | -19.3 | -199.4 | 180.1 | -64.5 | -338.9 | 274.4 | -35.4 | -38.2 | 2.8 | -9.5 | -16.4 | 6.9 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -27.2 | -27.2 | -26.9 | -26.9 | -10.2 | -10.2 | 8.5 | 8.5 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 7.8 | 7.8 | -11.5 | -11.5 | -0.5 | -0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -105.7 | -32.1 | 75.5 | 9.5 | |||||||||||