Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area – non−seasonally adjusted data ( 1 )
(EUR billions)
| April 2004 | March 2004 (revised) | Monthly average, previous six months | 12-month cumulated figures ending | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2003 - March 2004 | April 2004 | April 2003 | |||||||||||||
| Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | |
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
| ( 1 ) Figures may not add up due to rounding. | |||||||||||||||
| ( 2 ) Financial account: inflows (+); outflows (−). Reserve assets: increase (−); decrease (+). | |||||||||||||||
| ( 3 ) Direct investment: assets refer to direct investment abroad and liabilities to direct investment in the euro area. | |||||||||||||||
| CURRENTACCOUNT | 145.2 | 144.8 | 0.4 | 152.5 | 140.0 | 12.5 | 142.4 | 137.1 | 5.4 | 1683.5 | 1639.0 | 44.5 | 1704.9 | 1661.0 | 43.9 |
| Goods | 93.6 | 82.7 | 10.9 | 99.3 | 84.8 | 14.5 | 89.3 | 79.7 | 9.7 | 1055.6 | 932.2 | 123.4 | 1057.2 | 934.7 | 122.5 |
| Services | 26.1 | 25.8 | 0.3 | 25.7 | 25.7 | 0.0 | 26.3 | 25.4 | 0.9 | 323.8 | 310.1 | 13.8 | 332.1 | 312.9 | 19.2 |
| Income | 20.9 | 27.7 | -6.7 | 20.6 | 19.3 | 1.3 | 18.4 | 20.4 | -2.0 | 224.4 | 261.0 | -36.6 | 230.1 | 278.7 | -48.5 |
| Current transfers | 4.6 | 8.7 | -4.1 | 6.9 | 10.2 | -3.3 | 8.4 | 11.6 | -3.2 | 79.7 | 135.8 | -56.0 | 85.5 | 134.8 | -49.3 |
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 23.6 | 7.9 | 15.7 | 18.3 | 10.3 | 8.0 |
| Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | |
| FINANCIALACCOUNT2) | -8.4 | -23.6 | -3.6 | -79.9 | -99.8 | ||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT3) | -8.1 | 4.7 | -3.3 | -8.9 | -15.3 | -24.1 | -7.8 | 2.0 | -5.9 | -100.0 | 56.7 | -43.3 | -152.3 | 143.5 | -8.8 |
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -3.5 | 1.5 | -2.0 | -10.6 | -2.2 | -12.8 | -5.9 | 6.1 | 0.2 | -87.5 | 76.3 | -11.2 | -118.9 | 110.8 | -8.1 |
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -4.5 | 3.2 | -1.4 | 1.7 | -13.0 | -11.3 | -1.9 | -4.1 | -6.0 | -12.5 | -19.7 | -32.1 | -33.4 | 32.7 | -0.7 |
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -28.7 | 25.7 | -3.0 | -25.7 | 22.0 | -3.7 | -24.8 | 28.2 | 3.3 | -325.1 | 317.5 | -7.7 | -166.1 | 328.3 | 162.2 |
| Equity | -2.5 | -12.8 | -15.3 | -9.6 | 3.3 | -6.3 | -9.0 | 11.8 | 2.8 | -98.5 | 99.9 | 1.5 | -6.5 | 65.0 | 58.5 |
| Debt instruments | -26.2 | 38.6 | 12.4 | -16.0 | 18.6 | 2.6 | -15.8 | 16.3 | 0.5 | -226.7 | 217.5 | -9.2 | -159.6 | 263.4 | 103.8 |
| Bonds and notes | -7.9 | 27.5 | 19.6 | -23.4 | 6.6 | -16.8 | -11.2 | 13.5 | 2.3 | -155.8 | 203.3 | 47.5 | -124.0 | 167.6 | 43.6 |
| Money market instruments | -18.3 | 11.1 | -7.2 | 7.3 | 12.1 | 19.4 | -4.7 | 2.9 | -1.8 | -70.9 | 14.2 | -56.6 | -35.6 | 95.7 | 60.2 |
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -36.7 | 30.4 | -6.3 | -34.5 | 6.7 | -27.8 | -32.7 | 30.2 | -2.5 | -425.1 | 374.1 | -51.0 | -318.4 | 471.8 | 153.4 |
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 0.7 | 0.9 | -0.6 | -5.8 | -22.5 | ||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -55.1 | 55.0 | -0.2 | -79.5 | 78.9 | -0.6 | -41.3 | 37.0 | -4.4 | -286.7 | 239.9 | -46.8 | -375.3 | 139.0 | -236.3 |
| Eurosystem | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.1 | -0.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 | -0.2 | -0.5 | -0.7 | -0.1 | 7.3 | 7.2 | -0.9 | 18.4 | 17.6 |
| General government | -1.0 | -0.5 | -1.5 | -0.3 | -1.6 | -1.9 | 0.5 | -1.9 | -1.4 | -1.2 | -5.5 | -6.7 | -1.9 | -11.2 | -13.1 |
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -52.5 | 55.3 | 2.8 | -69.4 | 65.0 | -4.4 | -38.0 | 35.4 | -2.7 | -263.6 | 235.2 | -28.4 | -255.8 | 91.9 | -163.9 |
| long-term | -8.3 | -2.1 | -10.4 | -6.8 | 1.1 | -5.8 | -6.1 | 4.9 | -1.2 | -65.5 | 53.5 | -12.0 | -43.1 | 46.8 | 3.8 |
| short-term | -44.2 | 57.4 | 13.2 | -62.6 | 63.9 | 1.3 | -31.9 | 30.5 | -1.5 | -198.1 | 181.7 | -16.4 | -212.7 | 45.1 | -167.7 |
| Other sectors | -2.2 | -0.4 | -2.6 | -9.7 | 15.0 | 5.3 | -3.6 | 4.1 | 0.5 | -21.9 | 3.0 | -18.9 | -116.7 | 39.8 | -76.9 |
| RESERVE ASSETS | -2.7 | -2.7 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 23.7 | 23.7 | 5.5 | 5.5 | |||||
| Errors and omissions | 7.4 | 10.4 | -3.5 | 19.7 | 47.9 | ||||||||||