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 | November 2010 (revised) | December 2010 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2009 | December 2010 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | -49.8 | 2,259.1 | 2,308.9 | -58.1 | 2,561.2 | 2,619.3 | -5.4 | 224.6 | 230.1 | -0.1 | 234.1 | 234.2 | |||
| Goods | 39.4 | 1,291.3 | 1,251.9 | 24.2 | 1,560.7 | 1,536.5 | 0.8 | 142.9 | 142.1 | 2.8 | 136.6 | 133.9 | |||
| Services | 32.2 | 469.0 | 436.8 | 32.8 | 508.1 | 475.3 | 2.8 | 42.9 | 40.1 | -1.0 | 45.1 | 46.1 | |||
| Income | -28.7 | 405.8 | 434.6 | -9.9 | 411.0 | 420.9 | -2.1 | 31.9 | 34.0 | -0.2 | 37.2 | 37.4 | |||
| Current transfers | -92.6 | 93.0 | 185.6 | -105.2 | 81.4 | 186.6 | -7.0 | 6.8 | 13.8 | -1.7 | 15.2 | 16.8 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 6.1 | 19.6 | 13.5 | 9.0 | 22.1 | 13.0 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 4.5 | 2.0 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 31.0 | 67.8 | 11.3 | 9.3 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -74.5 | -288.3 | 213.8 | -85.9 | -85.9 | 0.0 | 23.4 | 3.4 | 19.9 | 19.0 | 18.6 | 0.4 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -0.7 | -215.7 | 214.9 | 74.8 | 9.6 | 65.2 | 10.3 | 9.2 | 1.1 | 19.0 | 15.0 | 4.0 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -73.7 | -72.6 | -1.1 | -160.7 | -95.4 | -65.2 | 13.1 | -5.7 | 18.8 | -0.1 | 3.6 | -3.7 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 264.8 | -78.6 | 343.4 | 197.1 | -116.1 | 313.2 | 25.6 | 5.2 | 20.4 | 37.5 | 18.3 | 19.3 | |||
| Equity | 37.2 | -45.5 | 82.7 | 42.3 | -74.3 | 116.5 | -9.2 | -14.4 | 5.2 | -8.5 | -10.5 | 2.0 | |||
| Debt instruments | 227.6 | -33.1 | 260.8 | 154.8 | -41.9 | 196.7 | 34.8 | 19.6 | 15.2 | 46.0 | 28.7 | 17.3 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 117.1 | -24.7 | 141.8 | 81.8 | -93.4 | 175.2 | 28.1 | 17.0 | 11.1 | 48.0 | 16.7 | 31.3 | |||
| Money market instruments | 110.6 | -8.4 | 119.0 | 73.0 | 51.5 | 21.5 | 6.6 | 2.6 | 4.0 | -2.0 | 12.0 | -14.0 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 190.3 | -366.9 | 557.2 | 111.2 | -202.0 | 313.2 | 48.9 | 8.6 | 40.3 | 56.5 | 36.9 | 19.6 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 51.5 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 2.7 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -215.4 | 524.2 | -739.6 | -35.2 | -121.7 | 86.5 | -38.2 | -50.2 | 12.1 | -48.5 | 86.9 | -135.4 | |||
| Eurosystem | -232.2 | 0.3 | -232.5 | 14.1 | 5.1 | 8.9 | 4.6 | 0.6 | 4.0 | 6.4 | -6.5 | 12.9 | |||
| General government | 0.5 | -10.9 | 11.4 | 24.1 | -39.1 | 63.1 | 10.7 | -5.1 | 15.8 | 19.0 | -3.8 | 22.9 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -1.3 | -1.3 | -4.6 | -4.6 | -3.7 | -3.7 | -1.7 | -1.7 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 68.1 | 421.6 | -353.5 | -20.7 | -20.6 | -0.0 | -27.8 | -46.3 | 18.5 | -69.6 | 80.6 | -150.2 | |||
| Long-term | -21.3 | 36.1 | -57.4 | 39.6 | 57.2 | -17.6 | -6.2 | -4.7 | -1.5 | -13.4 | 19.2 | -32.6 | |||
| Short-term | 89.4 | 385.6 | -296.1 | -60.3 | -77.8 | 17.5 | -21.6 | -41.6 | 20.0 | -56.2 | 61.4 | -117.6 | |||
| Other sectors | -51.9 | 113.2 | -165.1 | -52.6 | -67.1 | 14.5 | -25.6 | 0.6 | -26.1 | -4.3 | 16.6 | -20.9 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 55.7 | 55.7 | -13.4 | -13.4 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 12.8 | 12.8 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 4.6 | 4.6 | -10.1 | -10.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -1.3 | -1.3 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 12.6 | -18.7 | -6.7 | -11.8 | |||||||||||