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 | March 2008 (revised) | April 2008 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | April 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 | 11.9 | 2,487.6 | 2,475.7 | 0.5 | 2,707.9 | 2,707.4 | -5.7 | 223.8 | 229.6 | -9.2 | 235.3 | 244.4 | |||
| Goods | 38.1 | 1,434.3 | 1,396.2 | 43.3 | 1,546.6 | 1,503.3 | 1.3 | 130.2 | 128.8 | 3.0 | 137.8 | 134.9 | |||
| Services | 44.7 | 454.2 | 409.5 | 51.5 | 499.6 | 448.1 | 3.3 | 38.7 | 35.4 | 2.7 | 40.0 | 37.3 | |||
| Income | 8.5 | 508.8 | 500.3 | -6.2 | 568.4 | 574.6 | 0.7 | 49.9 | 49.2 | -6.9 | 49.9 | 56.9 | |||
| Current transfers | -79.5 | 90.3 | 169.8 | -88.2 | 93.2 | 181.5 | -11.1 | 5.0 | 16.2 | -7.9 | 7.5 | 15.4 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 13.0 | 26.0 | 12.9 | 15.0 | 26.5 | 11.4 | 0.8 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 1.0 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 121.3 | 57.0 | 11.6 | 21.4 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -133.5 | -306.3 | 172.8 | -165.9 | -364.3 | 198.4 | -16.3 | -21.4 | 5.1 | -24.2 | 18.5 | -42.7 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -100.7 | -231.7 | 128.0 | -140.6 | -269.1 | 128.9 | -7.4 | -16.3 | 8.8 | -7.9 | 24.5 | -32.4 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -28.5 | -74.6 | 44.8 | -25.6 | -95.2 | 69.4 | -8.8 | -5.2 | -3.7 | -16.3 | -6.0 | -10.3 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 401.3 | -493.1 | 894.4 | 174.0 | -306.9 | 480.8 | -0.1 | -2.6 | 2.5 | 0.5 | -30.2 | 30.7 | |||
| Equity | 214.8 | -77.6 | 292.4 | 175.8 | 24.4 | 151.4 | 12.4 | 16.8 | -4.5 | -20.9 | -1.2 | -19.7 | |||
| Debt instruments | 186.5 | -415.5 | 602.0 | -1.8 | -331.3 | 329.4 | -12.5 | -19.4 | 6.9 | 21.4 | -29.0 | 50.4 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 251.4 | -325.7 | 577.2 | 36.8 | -241.9 | 278.7 | -0.9 | 3.7 | -4.6 | 1.9 | -26.8 | 28.7 | |||
| Money market instruments | -64.9 | -89.7 | 24.9 | -38.6 | -89.3 | 50.7 | -11.5 | -23.1 | 11.5 | 19.5 | -2.2 | 21.7 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 267.8 | -799.3 | 1,067.2 | 8.0 | -671.1 | 679.2 | -16.4 | -24.0 | 7.6 | -23.7 | -11.7 | -12.0 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -10.5 | -103.4 | 7.3 | -14.2 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -127.0 | -926.4 | 799.4 | 163.4 | -698.7 | 862.0 | 24.0 | 6.7 | 17.3 | 62.7 | -53.9 | 116.6 | |||
| Eurosystem | 17.5 | -3.9 | 21.4 | 35.9 | -14.1 | 50.0 | 12.7 | -2.3 | 15.0 | 6.9 | -2.2 | 9.1 | |||
| General government | 8.3 | 7.7 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 1.4 | -0.2 | -1.9 | -1.6 | -0.2 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 0.3 | 0.3 | -0.7 | -0.7 | 1.3 | 1.3 | -1.4 | -1.4 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -115.6 | -736.7 | 621.1 | 186.0 | -408.4 | 594.3 | 7.1 | 36.8 | -29.7 | 66.6 | -50.4 | 117.0 | |||
| long-term | -102.7 | -209.2 | 106.5 | -160.6 | -204.6 | 44.0 | -42.4 | -32.0 | -10.4 | -14.6 | -6.7 | -7.9 | |||
| short-term | -13.0 | -527.5 | 514.6 | 346.6 | -203.8 | 550.3 | 49.5 | 68.8 | -19.3 | 81.2 | -43.7 | 124.9 | |||
| Other sectors | -37.1 | -193.5 | 156.3 | -61.1 | -276.4 | 215.2 | 3.0 | -29.2 | 32.2 | -9.0 | 0.4 | -9.4 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -34.9 | -34.9 | 23.9 | 23.9 | -9.7 | -9.7 | 16.2 | 16.2 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -9.1 | -9.1 | -11.0 | -11.0 | -3.3 | -3.3 | -3.4 | -3.4 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -146.2 | -72.5 | -6.7 | -12.8 | |||||||||||