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 | July 2009 (revised) | August 2009 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | August 2009 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | -53.1 | 2,775.8 | 2,828.9 | -98.8 | 2,403.3 | 2,502.0 | 9.3 | 199.1 | 189.8 | -5.0 | 172.4 | 177.3 | |||
| Goods | 9.2 | 1,583.3 | 1,574.2 | 13.9 | 1,349.5 | 1,335.6 | 12.6 | 117.3 | 104.8 | -0.6 | 93.9 | 94.5 | |||
| Services | 50.5 | 505.6 | 455.1 | 25.3 | 478.2 | 452.9 | 4.4 | 42.7 | 38.3 | 2.7 | 41.1 | 38.4 | |||
| Income | -19.5 | 597.8 | 617.2 | -46.6 | 488.0 | 534.6 | -1.1 | 34.8 | 35.9 | 0.9 | 32.7 | 31.8 | |||
| Current transfers | -93.3 | 89.1 | 182.4 | -91.3 | 87.6 | 178.9 | -6.6 | 4.3 | 10.9 | -8.0 | 4.7 | 12.6 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 16.2 | 29.7 | 13.4 | 6.5 | 17.9 | 11.5 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 0.7 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 74.8 | 216.2 | -35.3 | -2.9 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -156.8 | -424.2 | 267.4 | -147.3 | -307.0 | 159.7 | 8.5 | -9.5 | 18.0 | 3.8 | -16.2 | 20.0 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -141.1 | -295.5 | 154.9 | -33.3 | -194.5 | 161.7 | 11.8 | -2.3 | 14.1 | 1.2 | -11.7 | 12.9 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -15.9 | -128.8 | 112.5 | -114.7 | -112.6 | -2.0 | -3.3 | -7.3 | 3.9 | 2.6 | -4.5 | 7.1 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 127.4 | -316.5 | 444.0 | 571.6 | 237.7 | 333.9 | -20.2 | -6.5 | -13.7 | 53.4 | -30.9 | 84.3 | |||
| Equity | 36.9 | 10.5 | 26.4 | 68.4 | 98.9 | -30.5 | 10.2 | -6.4 | 16.6 | 40.7 | -4.4 | 45.1 | |||
| Debt instruments | 90.5 | -327.0 | 417.5 | 503.2 | 138.8 | 364.4 | -30.4 | -0.1 | -30.3 | 12.7 | -26.5 | 39.2 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 153.8 | -207.2 | 361.0 | 193.8 | 84.7 | 109.1 | -47.4 | 0.3 | -47.7 | 1.3 | -21.2 | 22.5 | |||
| Money market instruments | -63.3 | -119.8 | 56.5 | 309.4 | 54.1 | 255.3 | 17.0 | -0.4 | 17.4 | 11.5 | -5.3 | 16.7 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -29.4 | -740.8 | 711.4 | 424.3 | -69.3 | 493.6 | -11.7 | -16.0 | 4.3 | 57.3 | -47.1 | 104.3 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -68.0 | 0.2 | 7.7 | -5.9 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 174.8 | -470.5 | 645.3 | -209.9 | 629.5 | -839.4 | -28.3 | 38.3 | -66.6 | -54.5 | 23.0 | -77.5 | |||
| Eurosystem | 104.1 | -1.5 | 105.7 | 30.9 | 10.3 | 20.6 | -13.5 | 2.2 | -15.7 | -9.9 | 0.1 | -10.0 | |||
| General government | 0.5 | 6.9 | -6.4 | 3.2 | -1.4 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 4.5 | -0.4 | -0.8 | -1.3 | 0.4 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 4.3 | 4.3 | -1.0 | -1.0 | 4.4 | 4.4 | -2.2 | -2.2 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 151.6 | -214.0 | 365.6 | -172.9 | 555.2 | -728.2 | 4.6 | 35.4 | -30.8 | -11.5 | 31.9 | -43.3 | |||
| Long-term | -204.3 | -210.4 | 6.1 | -138.6 | -43.1 | -95.5 | -5.9 | 1.5 | -7.4 | 6.2 | 8.7 | -2.5 | |||
| Short-term | 355.9 | -3.6 | 359.5 | -34.3 | 598.3 | -632.6 | 10.5 | 33.9 | -23.4 | -17.7 | 23.2 | -40.9 | |||
| Other sectors | -81.4 | -261.8 | 180.5 | -71.1 | 65.3 | -136.5 | -23.4 | -3.8 | -19.6 | -32.3 | -7.7 | -24.6 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 37.0 | 37.0 | -2.8 | -2.8 | -4.2 | -4.2 | -20.1 | -20.1 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -2.7 | -2.7 | 1.6 | 1.6 | -3.0 | -3.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -37.9 | -123.9 | 25.4 | 7.3 | |||||||||||