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 | August 2008 (revised) | September 2008 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2007 | September 2008 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 49.1 | 2,636.1 | 2,587.0 | -33.2 | 2,793.1 | 2,826.3 | -6.0 | 215.8 | 221.8 | -6.0 | 238.8 | 244.7 | |||
| Goods | 64.2 | 1,487.3 | 1,423.1 | 8.1 | 1,585.5 | 1,577.4 | -5.2 | 119.8 | 125.0 | -3.9 | 138.1 | 142.0 | |||
| Services | 50.5 | 474.7 | 424.3 | 54.0 | 504.0 | 450.0 | 4.6 | 44.8 | 40.2 | 4.2 | 45.0 | 40.8 | |||
| Income | 15.1 | 583.2 | 568.1 | -8.4 | 614.5 | 622.9 | 1.9 | 46.8 | 44.9 | 1.7 | 50.3 | 48.6 | |||
| Current transfers | -80.6 | 90.9 | 171.5 | -86.9 | 89.1 | 176.0 | -7.3 | 4.4 | 11.7 | -7.9 | 5.4 | 13.3 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 13.4 | 26.1 | 12.7 | 16.3 | 29.7 | 13.3 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 0.9 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 72.4 | -15.2 | -29.6 | 10.5 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -175.2 | -452.1 | 276.9 | -171.8 | -350.1 | 178.3 | -9.8 | -11.0 | 1.2 | -18.5 | -35.2 | 16.7 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -127.0 | -337.2 | 209.4 | -155.4 | -259.0 | 103.7 | -14.2 | -18.8 | 4.6 | -12.2 | -21.7 | 9.6 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -46.6 | -114.9 | 67.5 | -16.4 | -91.2 | 74.6 | 4.4 | 7.8 | -3.4 | -6.3 | -13.4 | 7.2 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 341.6 | -487.5 | 829.1 | 65.0 | -256.5 | 321.4 | -18.2 | -17.9 | -0.3 | 57.1 | 86.7 | -29.7 | |||
| Equity | 117.1 | -92.0 | 209.1 | -74.6 | 21.3 | -96.0 | -1.8 | 7.1 | -8.9 | -59.6 | 26.7 | -86.3 | |||
| Debt instruments | 224.6 | -395.4 | 620.0 | 139.6 | -277.8 | 417.4 | -16.5 | -25.0 | 8.6 | 116.7 | 60.0 | 56.6 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 255.4 | -313.2 | 568.5 | 190.4 | -203.5 | 394.0 | 17.7 | -12.6 | 30.3 | 40.5 | 6.7 | 33.8 | |||
| Money market instruments | -30.8 | -82.2 | 51.5 | -50.8 | -74.3 | 23.4 | -34.2 | -12.4 | -21.8 | 76.2 | 53.4 | 22.8 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 166.5 | -939.6 | 1,106.1 | -106.8 | -606.6 | 499.8 | -28.0 | -28.9 | 0.9 | 38.6 | 51.6 | -13.0 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -38.1 | -47.6 | -5.9 | 5.4 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -43.7 | -1,092.8 | 1,049.1 | 137.4 | -354.1 | 491.5 | 1.8 | 7.2 | -5.3 | -35.0 | -72.1 | 37.1 | |||
| Eurosystem | 42.8 | -16.9 | 59.6 | 204.3 | -1.5 | 205.8 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 2.0 | 105.6 | 0.1 | 105.5 | |||
| General government | 6.1 | 3.8 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 5.9 | -4.9 | -0.5 | 1.2 | -1.7 | 0.4 | -1.6 | 2.0 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -1.3 | -1.3 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | -1.0 | -1.0 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -24.9 | -709.6 | 684.7 | 27.3 | -252.5 | 279.8 | 0.2 | -1.6 | 1.8 | -120.3 | -73.4 | -46.9 | |||
| long-term | -114.3 | -231.4 | 117.1 | -206.0 | -210.7 | 4.8 | -16.9 | -15.0 | -1.9 | -28.1 | -30.7 | 2.6 | |||
| short-term | 89.4 | -478.3 | 567.6 | 233.3 | -41.7 | 275.1 | 17.0 | 13.3 | 3.7 | -92.2 | -42.7 | -49.5 | |||
| Other sectors | -67.7 | -370.2 | 302.5 | -95.2 | -106.0 | 10.8 | -1.0 | 6.4 | -7.4 | -20.7 | 2.9 | -23.5 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -47.6 | -47.6 | 52.3 | 52.3 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 4.4 | 4.4 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -12.3 | -12.3 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 1.4 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -134.9 | 32.1 | 35.1 | -5.1 | |||||||||||