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 | June 2012 (revised) | July 2012 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | July 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | -28.0 | 2,830.2 | 2,858.2 | 59.6 | 3,070.4 | 3,010.8 | 17.4 | 271.9 | 254.6 | 15.9 | 266.9 | 251.0 | |||
| Goods | -2.9 | 1,702.5 | 1,705.4 | 56.2 | 1,865.8 | 1,809.6 | 14.2 | 165.0 | 150.8 | 12.5 | 164.1 | 151.6 | |||
| Services | 53.4 | 538.6 | 485.2 | 76.4 | 589.2 | 512.8 | 8.0 | 53.4 | 45.4 | 8.5 | 55.8 | 47.3 | |||
| Income | 25.4 | 499.1 | 473.7 | 35.0 | 520.2 | 485.2 | 2.7 | 47.4 | 44.7 | 2.4 | 41.0 | 38.6 | |||
| Current transfers | -103.9 | 90.0 | 193.9 | -108.0 | 95.2 | 203.2 | -7.5 | 6.1 | 13.6 | -7.4 | 6.0 | 13.4 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 4.2 | 19.8 | 15.6 | 12.2 | 26.8 | 14.6 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.8 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -7.0 | -47.4 | -12.2 | -6.0 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -101.7 | -293.8 | 192.1 | -88.0 | -278.7 | 190.7 | -19.7 | -29.2 | 9.5 | -6.7 | -6.0 | -0.6 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -68.5 | -240.5 | 172.5 | -19.5 | -226.0 | 206.5 | -0.8 | -14.2 | 13.5 | -2.9 | -14.7 | 11.8 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -33.4 | -53.4 | 19.5 | -68.5 | -52.7 | -15.9 | -18.9 | -15.0 | -4.0 | -3.7 | 8.7 | -12.4 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 319.8 | -135.2 | 455.0 | 78.8 | 21.5 | 57.3 | 49.2 | 28.9 | 20.3 | 24.3 | 13.9 | 10.4 | |||
| Equity | 140.7 | -70.0 | 210.7 | 140.8 | 82.4 | 58.4 | 22.2 | 11.5 | 10.7 | -5.1 | 3.6 | -8.7 | |||
| Debt instruments | 179.1 | -65.2 | 244.3 | -62.0 | -60.9 | -1.1 | 26.9 | 17.4 | 9.5 | 29.5 | 10.3 | 19.2 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 165.0 | -59.7 | 224.7 | 27.4 | -20.6 | 48.0 | 31.2 | -0.3 | 31.5 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 1.4 | |||
| Money market instruments | 14.1 | -5.6 | 19.6 | -89.3 | -40.2 | -49.1 | -4.3 | 17.6 | -22.0 | 26.5 | 8.7 | 17.7 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 218.1 | -429.1 | 647.1 | -9.2 | -257.2 | 248.0 | 29.5 | -0.3 | 29.8 | 17.6 | 7.8 | 9.8 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 19.6 | -38.7 | -1.9 | -2.4 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -232.6 | -240.5 | 7.9 | 12.5 | -130.5 | 143.0 | -35.3 | 53.1 | -88.4 | -21.7 | -38.6 | 17.0 | |||
| Eurosystem | 33.3 | -14.1 | 47.4 | 146.8 | 13.0 | 133.8 | 39.2 | 6.6 | 32.7 | 22.6 | -5.1 | 27.7 | |||
| General government | 78.0 | -20.4 | 98.3 | 30.4 | -11.6 | 42.0 | -2.7 | -0.7 | -2.0 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 1.4 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -0.6 | -0.6 | -14.8 | -14.8 | -1.0 | -1.0 | -1.6 | -1.6 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -273.3 | -99.0 | -174.3 | -148.6 | 0.3 | -149.0 | -66.2 | 61.5 | -127.7 | -47.1 | -20.0 | -27.1 | |||
| Long-term | 45.9 | 3.7 | 42.2 | -40.2 | 11.5 | -51.6 | -9.3 | 7.7 | -17.0 | 1.5 | 3.7 | -2.1 | |||
| Short-term | -319.2 | -102.7 | -216.5 | -108.4 | -11.1 | -97.3 | -56.9 | 53.8 | -110.7 | -48.6 | -23.7 | -24.9 | |||
| Other sectors | -70.4 | -107.0 | 36.6 | -16.1 | -132.3 | 116.2 | -5.6 | -14.3 | 8.6 | 1.3 | -13.6 | 14.9 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -75.6 | -75.6 | -70.2 | -70.2 | -10.5 | -10.5 | -13.7 | -13.7 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -12.1 | -12.1 | -11.9 | -11.9 | -4.5 | -4.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 30.7 | -24.4 | -5.6 | -10.2 | |||||||||||