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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 2013 (revised) July 2013
July 2012 July 2013
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 75.0 3,100.3 3,025.4 198.0 3,177.0 2,979.1 27.8 274.1 246.3 26.6 276.4 249.8
Goods 60.4 1,878.1 1,817.7 157.6 1,933.1 1,775.5 19.1 161.3 142.2 20.5 168.3 147.9
Services 88.1 610.9 522.8 96.4 634.2 537.8 11.8 56.8 45.0 10.7 58.0 47.2
Income 37.6 514.3 476.7 58.0 508.1 450.2 6.3 48.6 42.3 4.8 42.3 37.5
Current transfers -111.2 97.0 208.2 -114.0 101.6 215.6 -9.3 7.5 16.8 -9.4 7.8 17.2
CAPITAL ACCOUNT 13.3 27.7 14.3 18.1 32.5 14.4 0.7 1.7 1.0 2.3 3.1 0.8
Balance Assets Liabilities Balance Assets Liabilities Balance Assets Liabilities Balance Assets Liabilities
FINANCIALACCOUNT1) -79.3 -236.1 -30.9 -27.3
DIRECTINVESTMENT2) -52.8 -352.8 300.0 -86.1 -194.3 108.2 -5.3 -2.3 -3.0 -2.7 -9.1 6.5
Equity capital and reinvested earnings -15.6 -309.2 293.7 -10.6 -143.6 133.0 6.9 7.1 -0.1 10.7 -3.7 14.4
Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) -37.3 -43.6 6.3 -75.5 -50.7 -24.8 -12.2 -9.4 -2.8 -13.4 -5.4 -8.0
PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT 35.2 61.4 -26.2 101.2 -270.6 371.8 24.8 46.9 -22.1 -40.8 -25.7 -15.1
Equity 115.9 100.9 14.9 112.3 -149.9 262.2 33.8 18.4 15.4 -4.1 -10.6 6.5
Debt instruments -80.7 -39.5 -41.2 -11.1 -120.7 109.6 -9.0 28.5 -37.5 -36.7 -15.1 -21.6
Bonds and notes 0.8 -6.8 7.7 -9.3 -98.4 89.1 -10.1 27.6 -37.7 -51.9 -14.0 -37.9
Money market instruments -81.5 -32.7 -48.9 -1.8 -22.4 20.5 1.1 0.9 0.2 15.2 -1.1 16.3
MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT -17.7 -291.4 273.8 15.1 -464.9 480.0 19.5 44.6 -25.1 -43.4 -34.8 -8.6
FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) -35.9 44.9 13.9 -0.5
OTHER INVESTMENT -13.4 -169.3 156.0 -291.7 184.2 -475.9 -63.8 55.4 -119.1 16.4 36.6 -20.2
Eurosystem 140.1 7.1 133.0 -59.9 7.8 -67.7 -6.2 2.9 -9.1 -8.6 -3.4 -5.2
General government 26.9 -14.9 41.8 1.1 10.7 -9.6 5.8 2.2 3.6 5.6 4.7 0.9
of which: currency and deposits -15.0 -15.0 10.5 10.5 0.6 0.6 2.7 2.7
MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) -153.0 -7.5 -145.5 -220.5 176.4 -396.9 -45.9 43.1 -89.0 9.7 34.3 -24.6
Long-term -38.2 0.8 -39.0 31.5 97.7 -66.2 10.3 29.3 -19.0 -3.2 22.4 -25.5
Short-term -114.8 -8.3 -106.6 -252.0 78.7 -330.6 -56.3 13.8 -70.0 12.9 11.9 0.9
Other sectors -27.3 -154.1 126.7 -12.4 -10.7 -1.7 -17.5 7.1 -24.6 9.7 1.0 8.7
of which: currency and deposits -57.4 -57.4 -1.2 -1.2 8.6 8.6 -0.2 -0.2
RESERVE ASSETS -12.3 -12.3 -4.5 -4.5 -0.6 -0.6 0.3 0.3
Errors and omissions -9.0 20.1 2.3 -1.6