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 | October 2012 (revised) | November 2012 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2011 | November 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 | -0.2 | 2,954.1 | 2,954.3 | 106.2 | 3,134.6 | 3,028.4 | 11.6 | 270.9 | 259.3 | 19.8 | 262.3 | 242.5 | |||
| Goods | 1.4 | 1,760.6 | 1,759.2 | 99.8 | 1,915.5 | 1,815.7 | 12.5 | 173.6 | 161.1 | 16.3 | 167.7 | 151.4 | |||
| Services | 64.1 | 572.9 | 508.8 | 87.9 | 613.3 | 525.4 | 6.9 | 52.9 | 46.0 | 5.6 | 49.5 | 43.9 | |||
| Income | 40.8 | 526.4 | 485.6 | 31.1 | 511.2 | 480.1 | 2.0 | 38.2 | 36.2 | 4.0 | 36.4 | 32.4 | |||
| Current transfers | -106.4 | 94.2 | 200.7 | -112.6 | 94.6 | 207.2 | -9.8 | 6.2 | 15.9 | -6.1 | 8.6 | 14.7 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 12.0 | 24.7 | 12.7 | 11.7 | 26.9 | 15.2 | 1.8 | 3.2 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 2.7 | 1.1 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -40.2 | -131.6 | -12.0 | -26.1 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -153.8 | -422.0 | 268.2 | -31.1 | -255.0 | 224.0 | -10.6 | -20.7 | 10.1 | 14.1 | 6.2 | 7.9 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -51.6 | -347.5 | 296.0 | -23.3 | -216.1 | 192.9 | -12.3 | -21.5 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 2.3 | 7.0 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -102.2 | -74.5 | -27.8 | -7.8 | -38.9 | 31.1 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 0.9 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 332.3 | 95.1 | 237.2 | 20.1 | -163.6 | 183.7 | 45.8 | 0.2 | 45.6 | 12.1 | -36.7 | 48.8 | |||
| Equity | 146.1 | 54.8 | 91.4 | 123.4 | 0.0 | 123.4 | 21.9 | -6.5 | 28.4 | 11.9 | 0.1 | 11.8 | |||
| Debt instruments | 186.2 | 40.3 | 145.9 | -103.3 | -163.6 | 60.3 | 24.0 | 6.8 | 17.2 | 0.2 | -36.8 | 37.0 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 242.4 | 26.9 | 215.6 | 0.5 | -107.8 | 108.2 | 9.9 | -1.5 | 11.4 | 23.9 | -17.5 | 41.4 | |||
| Money market instruments | -56.2 | 13.5 | -69.7 | -103.8 | -55.8 | -48.0 | 14.1 | 8.3 | 5.8 | -23.6 | -19.2 | -4.4 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 178.5 | -326.9 | 505.5 | -11.0 | -418.6 | 407.6 | 35.3 | -20.5 | 55.7 | 26.2 | -30.5 | 56.7 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 6.4 | -7.3 | 4.0 | 10.2 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -218.8 | -160.4 | -58.4 | -93.2 | -57.4 | -35.8 | -48.7 | -24.7 | -24.0 | -61.5 | 9.3 | -70.8 | |||
| Eurosystem | 43.6 | -5.7 | 49.3 | 104.4 | -6.2 | 110.6 | -17.1 | -4.8 | -12.4 | 4.1 | 2.1 | 1.9 | |||
| General government | 85.6 | -4.6 | 90.2 | 20.8 | -2.0 | 22.8 | -5.3 | -8.4 | 3.1 | -2.8 | -6.0 | 3.3 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -13.4 | -13.4 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | -4.2 | -4.2 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -291.1 | -11.9 | -279.2 | -189.6 | 60.4 | -250.0 | -16.7 | -10.2 | -6.6 | -51.5 | 19.1 | -70.6 | |||
| Long-term | -11.2 | 16.8 | -28.0 | -13.4 | 6.2 | -19.6 | 10.1 | 16.1 | -6.0 | 1.8 | 3.2 | -1.4 | |||
| Short-term | -279.9 | -28.7 | -251.2 | -176.2 | 54.2 | -230.4 | -26.8 | -26.3 | -0.5 | -53.3 | 15.9 | -69.2 | |||
| Other sectors | -56.9 | -138.2 | 81.3 | -28.9 | -109.7 | 80.8 | -9.6 | -1.3 | -8.2 | -11.2 | -5.9 | -5.3 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -60.4 | -60.4 | -50.1 | -50.1 | -7.7 | -7.7 | -2.9 | -2.9 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -6.3 | -6.3 | -20.1 | -20.1 | -2.4 | -2.4 | -1.0 | -1.0 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 28.4 | 13.7 | -1.5 | 4.7 | |||||||||||