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 | December 2010 (revised) | January 2011 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2010 | January 2011 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | -41.1 | 2,266.2 | 2,307.3 | -63.2 | 2,597.7 | 2,660.9 | 1.0 | 236.1 | 235.1 | -19.6 | 208.3 | 227.9 | |||
| Goods | 41.7 | 1,297.3 | 1,255.6 | 17.6 | 1,589.5 | 1,571.9 | 2.6 | 137.3 | 134.7 | -13.5 | 126.5 | 140.0 | |||
| Services | 33.6 | 469.2 | 435.6 | 35.0 | 513.8 | 478.8 | -0.4 | 45.1 | 45.5 | 1.3 | 40.6 | 39.3 | |||
| Income | -25.8 | 402.2 | 427.9 | -11.9 | 412.9 | 424.7 | 0.1 | 38.2 | 38.1 | 0.6 | 32.5 | 31.9 | |||
| Current transfers | -90.6 | 97.5 | 188.1 | -104.0 | 81.5 | 185.4 | -1.3 | 15.6 | 16.8 | -8.0 | 8.7 | 16.7 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 7.1 | 20.7 | 13.6 | 8.4 | 21.4 | 13.0 | 2.7 | 4.7 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.0 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 40.3 | 52.5 | -5.3 | 18.0 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -56.7 | -259.1 | 202.4 | -72.6 | -106.2 | 33.6 | 18.6 | 18.2 | 0.5 | 7.6 | -26.8 | 34.4 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | 3.9 | -207.4 | 212.6 | 45.4 | -20.0 | 66.1 | 18.4 | 14.4 | 4.0 | -26.4 | -32.8 | 6.4 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -61.4 | -51.6 | -10.1 | -119.1 | -86.1 | -32.5 | 0.2 | 3.8 | -3.6 | 34.0 | 6.0 | 28.1 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 334.0 | -81.3 | 415.4 | 141.9 | -124.5 | 266.4 | 23.5 | 18.1 | 5.5 | -14.7 | -39.0 | 24.3 | |||
| Equity | 27.4 | -63.4 | 90.8 | 94.2 | -55.4 | 149.6 | 5.2 | -10.6 | 15.8 | 14.0 | 6.4 | 7.7 | |||
| Debt instruments | 306.6 | -18.0 | 324.6 | 47.7 | -69.1 | 116.7 | 18.3 | 28.6 | -10.3 | -28.7 | -45.4 | 16.6 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 184.9 | 0.0 | 184.9 | -3.3 | -127.0 | 123.7 | 47.8 | 16.6 | 31.2 | -36.4 | -37.3 | 0.9 | |||
| Money market instruments | 121.7 | -18.0 | 139.6 | 51.0 | 57.9 | -7.0 | -29.5 | 12.1 | -41.5 | 7.7 | -8.0 | 15.7 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 277.3 | -340.4 | 617.8 | 69.4 | -230.6 | 300.0 | 42.2 | 36.3 | 5.9 | -7.1 | -65.8 | 58.7 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 48.3 | -4.6 | 2.6 | -2.5 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -286.3 | 412.3 | -698.6 | 5.1 | -117.7 | 122.7 | -48.8 | 86.5 | -135.3 | 33.2 | -65.7 | 98.9 | |||
| Eurosystem | -171.9 | 6.6 | -178.6 | 28.3 | 0.5 | 27.8 | 6.2 | -6.7 | 12.9 | 12.5 | 0.5 | 12.0 | |||
| General government | -4.3 | 6.7 | -10.9 | 27.6 | -37.6 | 65.2 | 19.0 | -3.8 | 22.8 | 8.2 | 5.5 | 2.8 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 14.4 | 14.4 | -3.2 | -3.2 | -1.7 | -1.7 | 4.3 | 4.3 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -68.9 | 312.6 | -381.5 | -25.5 | -18.2 | -7.3 | -69.6 | 80.4 | -150.0 | 4.6 | -59.5 | 64.1 | |||
| Long-term | -16.8 | 29.1 | -45.9 | 72.3 | 41.5 | 30.8 | -13.3 | 19.3 | -32.6 | 41.0 | -8.0 | 49.0 | |||
| Short-term | -52.1 | 283.5 | -335.6 | -97.8 | -59.7 | -38.1 | -56.3 | 61.2 | -117.4 | -36.4 | -51.5 | 15.1 | |||
| Other sectors | -41.2 | 86.4 | -127.6 | -25.3 | -62.3 | 37.0 | -4.4 | 16.6 | -21.0 | 7.9 | -12.1 | 20.0 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 46.6 | 46.6 | -28.3 | -28.3 | 12.7 | 12.7 | -17.0 | -17.0 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 0.9 | 0.9 | -17.4 | -17.4 | -1.3 | -1.3 | -5.7 | -5.7 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -6.3 | 2.3 | 1.6 | 1.3 | |||||||||||