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 | January 2014 (revised) | February 2014 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2013 | February 2014 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 149.3 | 3,227.7 | 3,078.4 | 244.3 | 3,256.1 | 3,011.8 | 7.0 | 256.0 | 249.0 | 13.9 | 257.8 | 244.0 | |||
| Goods | 101.7 | 1,925.3 | 1,823.6 | 174.3 | 1,942.5 | 1,768.2 | 0.7 | 152.6 | 151.9 | 15.8 | 157.1 | 141.4 | |||
| Services | 96.0 | 635.6 | 539.6 | 119.6 | 671.2 | 551.6 | 8.8 | 53.0 | 44.3 | 8.8 | 49.7 | 40.9 | |||
| Income | 61.3 | 566.9 | 505.6 | 69.6 | 542.2 | 472.6 | 7.5 | 39.8 | 32.3 | 6.5 | 39.4 | 32.9 | |||
| Current transfers | -109.7 | 100.0 | 209.6 | -119.2 | 100.3 | 219.5 | -10.0 | 10.5 | 20.5 | -17.2 | 11.5 | 28.7 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 15.0 | 31.0 | 15.9 | 22.4 | 33.7 | 11.2 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 0.6 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -195.6 | -256.5 | -4.7 | -12.2 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -78.2 | -379.9 | 301.7 | 7.6 | -270.4 | 278.0 | -9.1 | -25.0 | 16.0 | 31.9 | 46.6 | -14.7 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -35.2 | -262.3 | 227.5 | 42.3 | -225.0 | 267.8 | -4.4 | -19.3 | 14.9 | 32.9 | 51.0 | -18.1 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -43.5 | -117.5 | 74.2 | -35.2 | -45.4 | 10.2 | -4.6 | -5.7 | 1.1 | -1.0 | -4.4 | 3.5 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 153.6 | -201.3 | 354.9 | 138.0 | -205.6 | 343.5 | 19.3 | -17.6 | 36.9 | 24.3 | -14.6 | 38.9 | |||
| Equity | 86.1 | -87.1 | 173.2 | 95.4 | -128.7 | 224.1 | 8.0 | -6.8 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 4.8 | 7.8 | |||
| Debt instruments | 67.5 | -114.2 | 181.7 | 42.5 | -76.9 | 119.4 | 11.3 | -10.8 | 22.1 | 11.6 | -19.4 | 31.1 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 26.1 | -125.8 | 151.9 | 47.3 | -62.7 | 110.0 | -7.4 | -2.9 | -4.5 | 41.4 | -10.5 | 51.9 | |||
| Money market instruments | 41.4 | 11.6 | 29.8 | -4.8 | -14.2 | 9.4 | 18.7 | -7.9 | 26.7 | -29.8 | -9.0 | -20.8 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 75.4 | -581.2 | 656.6 | 145.5 | -476.0 | 621.5 | 10.3 | -42.7 | 52.9 | 56.2 | 32.0 | 24.2 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 13.7 | 13.6 | -0.1 | 2.7 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -270.2 | -11.6 | -258.7 | -411.7 | -25.8 | -385.9 | -12.1 | -127.8 | 115.7 | -71.9 | -45.0 | -27.0 | |||
| Eurosystem | 26.7 | -2.2 | 29.0 | -48.5 | 22.9 | -71.4 | -3.2 | 3.3 | -6.5 | -13.4 | -0.1 | -13.3 | |||
| General government | -9.6 | -6.9 | -2.7 | -0.4 | 1.7 | -2.1 | 2.7 | 2.0 | 0.7 | -0.2 | -1.5 | 1.2 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -1.3 | -1.3 | -5.1 | -5.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | -4.2 | -4.2 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -199.7 | 88.1 | -287.8 | -333.3 | -58.4 | -274.9 | -21.4 | -134.0 | 112.6 | -48.0 | -30.4 | -17.6 | |||
| Long-term | -10.6 | 27.9 | -38.5 | 48.0 | 117.1 | -69.1 | 4.2 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 6.6 | -4.7 | |||
| Short-term | -189.1 | 60.1 | -249.3 | -381.3 | -175.5 | -205.8 | -25.6 | -136.3 | 110.7 | -49.8 | -36.9 | -12.9 | |||
| Other sectors | -87.7 | -90.5 | 2.9 | -29.6 | 7.9 | -37.5 | 9.8 | 0.9 | 8.9 | -10.3 | -13.0 | 2.7 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -7.9 | -7.9 | -11.4 | -11.4 | -7.8 | -7.8 | -13.7 | -13.7 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -14.5 | -14.5 | -4.0 | -4.0 | -2.7 | -2.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 31.3 | -10.2 | -3.3 | -4.4 | |||||||||||