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 | September 2006 (revised) | October 2006 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2005 | October 2006 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 12.8 | 2,000.4 | 1,987.6 | -21.9 | 2,283.9 | 2,305.8 | 0.5 | 197.8 | 197.3 | -0.4 | 204.6 | 204.9 | |||
| Goods | 57.8 | 1,200.8 | 1,143.0 | 17.8 | 1,365.6 | 1,347.9 | 4.1 | 121.7 | 117.5 | 4.7 | 128.5 | 123.8 | |||
| Services | 32.1 | 391.6 | 359.5 | 36.2 | 424.1 | 387.9 | 3.6 | 36.9 | 33.3 | 3.3 | 37.5 | 34.1 | |||
| Income | -11.9 | 324.0 | 335.9 | -3.7 | 409.5 | 413.2 | 0.6 | 35.0 | 34.4 | -0.7 | 33.7 | 34.4 | |||
| Current transfers | -65.3 | 84.0 | 149.3 | -72.2 | 84.6 | 156.8 | -7.9 | 4.2 | 12.1 | -7.7 | 4.9 | 12.6 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 13.2 | 23.9 | 10.6 | 9.4 | 22.6 | 13.2 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 0.8 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 81.5 | 131.6 | 39.7 | -0.2 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -186.9 | -282.0 | 95.1 | -118.3 | -285.6 | 167.3 | -21.2 | -34.9 | 13.7 | -12.8 | -17.5 | 4.6 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -160.0 | -233.0 | 73.0 | -111.4 | -240.8 | 129.4 | -21.7 | -27.7 | 5.9 | -11.7 | -10.2 | -1.5 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -27.0 | -49.0 | 22.1 | -6.9 | -44.8 | 37.9 | 0.5 | -7.3 | 7.7 | -1.1 | -7.3 | 6.2 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 221.0 | -368.1 | 589.1 | 120.8 | -477.0 | 597.8 | 36.6 | -44.2 | 80.8 | 23.2 | -48.5 | 71.7 | |||
| Equity | 179.9 | -94.0 | 273.9 | 151.4 | -162.7 | 314.1 | 20.4 | -10.2 | 30.6 | 10.2 | -6.7 | 17.0 | |||
| Debt instruments | 41.1 | -274.1 | 315.3 | -30.7 | -314.3 | 283.7 | 16.2 | -34.1 | 50.2 | 13.0 | -41.8 | 54.8 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 2.5 | -260.0 | 262.5 | 28.9 | -267.6 | 296.5 | 10.9 | -35.8 | 46.7 | 8.8 | -36.7 | 45.5 | |||
| Money market instruments | 38.6 | -14.2 | 52.8 | -59.6 | -46.7 | -12.8 | 5.3 | 1.8 | 3.5 | 4.2 | -5.1 | 9.2 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 34.0 | -650.2 | 684.2 | 2.4 | -762.7 | 765.1 | 15.3 | -79.1 | 94.5 | 10.4 | -66.0 | 76.4 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -10.4 | -0.5 | 6.6 | 7.2 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 46.7 | -554.8 | 601.5 | 119.2 | -665.0 | 784.2 | 18.9 | -102.3 | 121.2 | -17.9 | -108.6 | 90.7 | |||
| Eurosystem | 12.2 | 1.8 | 10.4 | 8.3 | -3.8 | 12.1 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.9 | -0.9 | |||
| General government | 5.0 | 6.2 | -1.2 | 0.2 | 3.5 | -3.3 | 9.2 | 4.5 | 4.7 | -4.4 | -2.2 | -2.1 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -0.2 | -0.2 | -5.0 | -5.0 | 1.4 | 1.4 | -3.8 | -3.8 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 47.2 | -422.0 | 469.2 | 91.9 | -440.6 | 532.5 | -3.1 | -85.3 | 82.1 | -16.6 | -84.3 | 67.7 | |||
| long-term | -32.2 | -74.4 | 42.2 | -111.3 | -164.0 | 52.7 | -10.8 | -16.5 | 5.7 | -50.2 | -48.0 | -2.2 | |||
| short-term | 79.4 | -347.6 | 427.0 | 203.2 | -276.5 | 479.7 | 7.7 | -68.8 | 76.4 | 33.5 | -36.4 | 69.9 | |||
| Other sectors | -17.6 | -140.8 | 123.2 | 18.8 | -224.1 | 242.9 | 9.9 | -22.0 | 31.9 | 3.1 | -22.9 | 26.0 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -3.9 | -3.9 | 12.3 | 12.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 2.2 | 2.2 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 11.1 | 11.1 | 10.4 | 10.4 | -1.0 | -1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -107.5 | -119.1 | -40.4 | 0.2 | |||||||||||