Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area
(EUR billions; transactions; non−working day and non−seasonally adjusted data)
| Cumulated figures for the 12-month period ending | March 2010 (revised) | April 2010 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2009 | April 2010 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | -153.1 | 2,560.7 | 2,713.8 | -35.3 | 2,303.5 | 2,338.8 | 1.3 | 214.4 | 213.2 | -6.9 | 195.1 | 202.0 | |||
| Goods | -21.8 | 1,460.1 | 1,481.9 | 50.1 | 1,349.4 | 1,299.3 | 5.7 | 135.8 | 130.1 | 3.6 | 122.9 | 119.4 | |||
| Services | 35.1 | 505.0 | 469.9 | 35.8 | 468.8 | 433.0 | 2.5 | 38.5 | 36.0 | 2.8 | 38.1 | 35.3 | |||
| Income | -67.0 | 509.0 | 576.0 | -32.6 | 396.2 | 428.8 | 1.3 | 35.6 | 34.3 | -5.5 | 30.1 | 35.5 | |||
| Current transfers | -99.4 | 86.6 | 186.0 | -88.5 | 89.1 | 177.6 | -8.3 | 4.5 | 12.8 | -7.8 | 4.0 | 11.8 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 7.8 | 21.9 | 14.0 | 7.4 | 18.0 | 10.6 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | -0.2 | 0.7 | 0.9 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 192.7 | 2.6 | -1.0 | 8.2 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -164.6 | -342.8 | 178.2 | -76.8 | -209.7 | 132.9 | -24.2 | -26.4 | 2.2 | -11.3 | -15.6 | 4.3 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -52.6 | -225.7 | 173.6 | -14.8 | -142.3 | 127.5 | -5.5 | -9.5 | 4.0 | 3.8 | -1.7 | 5.4 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -113.1 | -117.1 | 4.5 | -62.0 | -67.4 | 5.4 | -18.6 | -16.9 | -1.8 | -15.1 | -14.0 | -1.1 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 397.4 | 199.5 | 197.8 | 237.6 | -208.3 | 445.9 | -16.3 | -30.0 | 13.6 | 29.9 | -16.7 | 46.6 | |||
| Equity | -114.3 | 124.9 | -239.1 | 134.4 | -116.1 | 250.5 | -5.7 | -19.4 | 13.7 | -8.1 | -5.7 | -2.5 | |||
| Debt instruments | 511.6 | 74.7 | 437.0 | 103.2 | -92.2 | 195.4 | -10.6 | -10.6 | -0.0 | 38.0 | -11.0 | 49.1 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 221.9 | 18.6 | 203.3 | 13.5 | -120.2 | 133.8 | -8.5 | -27.6 | 19.1 | 32.0 | -14.3 | 46.3 | |||
| Money market instruments | 289.7 | 56.0 | 233.7 | 89.6 | 28.0 | 61.6 | -2.1 | 16.9 | -19.1 | 6.0 | 3.2 | 2.8 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 232.7 | -143.2 | 376.0 | 160.8 | -418.1 | 578.9 | -40.5 | -56.4 | 15.9 | 18.5 | -32.4 | 50.9 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 0.4 | 14.8 | -1.1 | -0.3 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -52.2 | 458.0 | -510.2 | -165.9 | 189.5 | -355.4 | 43.2 | 25.0 | 18.2 | -10.1 | -94.9 | 84.8 | |||
| Eurosystem | 153.9 | 20.4 | 133.5 | -122.6 | 1.8 | -124.4 | -1.5 | 0.3 | -1.7 | 1.0 | -1.2 | 2.2 | |||
| General government | 14.3 | 6.3 | 8.1 | -9.9 | -10.3 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 2.2 | -0.0 | -3.9 | -4.9 | 1.0 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 6.7 | 6.7 | -3.4 | -3.4 | 1.6 | 1.6 | -4.9 | -4.9 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -136.2 | 516.4 | -652.5 | 6.2 | 96.4 | -90.2 | 20.3 | 25.0 | -4.7 | 19.6 | -70.5 | 90.1 | |||
| Long-term | -189.0 | -119.3 | -69.8 | 14.8 | 13.8 | 1.0 | 8.0 | 8.2 | -0.2 | 13.4 | -0.5 | 13.9 | |||
| Short-term | 52.9 | 635.6 | -582.8 | -8.6 | 82.6 | -91.2 | 12.4 | 16.8 | -4.5 | 6.2 | -70.0 | 76.2 | |||
| Other sectors | -84.2 | -85.0 | 0.8 | -39.6 | 101.7 | -141.2 | 22.2 | -2.5 | 24.7 | -26.7 | -18.3 | -8.4 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 34.9 | 34.9 | 41.7 | 41.7 | 3.5 | 3.5 | -3.7 | -3.7 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 11.7 | 11.7 | -7.1 | -7.1 | -2.6 | -2.6 | -0.0 | -0.0 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -47.5 | 25.3 | -0.4 | -1.1 | |||||||||||