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 | July 2013 (revised) | August 2013 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2012 | August 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 | 85.0 | 3,150.2 | 3,065.3 | 189.6 | 3,178.8 | 2,989.2 | 26.1 | 276.9 | 250.7 | 12.0 | 247.2 | 235.2 | |||
| Goods | 65.8 | 1,893.9 | 1,828.1 | 155.7 | 1,924.3 | 1,768.6 | 19.7 | 168.1 | 148.4 | 8.3 | 147.5 | 139.3 | |||
| Services | 87.6 | 617.6 | 530.1 | 95.7 | 638.0 | 542.3 | 11.4 | 58.5 | 47.1 | 7.5 | 54.3 | 46.8 | |||
| Income | 44.2 | 542.6 | 498.4 | 57.8 | 517.2 | 459.4 | 4.5 | 42.5 | 38.0 | 7.6 | 40.4 | 32.8 | |||
| Current transfers | -112.6 | 96.1 | 208.7 | -119.5 | 99.3 | 218.9 | -9.5 | 7.8 | 17.3 | -11.4 | 4.9 | 16.3 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 3.1 | 27.6 | 24.5 | 18.7 | 31.9 | 13.3 | 2.3 | 3.1 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 0.7 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -57.4 | -246.4 | -29.6 | -15.5 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | 26.6 | -429.5 | 456.2 | -117.9 | -262.7 | 144.8 | -2.9 | -9.3 | 6.4 | -7.8 | -22.7 | 14.9 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -14.6 | -329.8 | 315.3 | 35.5 | -109.7 | 145.2 | 10.7 | -3.5 | 14.3 | -5.1 | -11.6 | 6.5 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | 41.2 | -99.7 | 140.9 | -153.4 | -153.0 | -0.4 | -13.6 | -5.8 | -7.9 | -2.7 | -11.1 | 8.4 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -44.8 | -7.2 | -37.6 | 135.4 | -254.1 | 389.5 | -41.5 | -26.7 | -14.8 | 20.1 | 6.5 | 13.6 | |||
| Equity | 83.4 | 62.5 | 20.9 | 126.9 | -149.8 | 276.7 | -2.9 | -11.3 | 8.4 | 28.8 | 5.7 | 23.1 | |||
| Debt instruments | -128.2 | -69.7 | -58.5 | 8.5 | -104.3 | 112.9 | -38.6 | -15.4 | -23.2 | -8.7 | 0.8 | -9.5 | |||
| Bonds and notes | -22.9 | -33.6 | 10.7 | -47.3 | -105.8 | 58.5 | -53.5 | -14.3 | -39.3 | -10.7 | 3.1 | -13.9 | |||
| Money market instruments | -105.2 | -36.1 | -69.1 | 55.8 | 1.5 | 54.3 | 15.0 | -1.1 | 16.1 | 2.1 | -2.3 | 4.4 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -18.1 | -436.7 | 418.6 | 17.5 | -516.8 | 534.3 | -44.4 | -36.0 | -8.4 | 12.3 | -16.2 | 28.5 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -34.7 | 38.4 | -0.7 | 6.9 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 12.6 | -8.6 | 21.2 | -297.6 | 192.6 | -490.2 | 15.1 | 36.0 | -20.8 | -32.8 | 6.4 | -39.2 | |||
| Eurosystem | 141.0 | 13.4 | 127.5 | -58.0 | 9.4 | -67.4 | -8.6 | -3.4 | -5.2 | 0.1 | 2.3 | -2.2 | |||
| General government | 25.3 | -16.9 | 42.3 | -2.4 | 8.5 | -10.9 | 6.1 | 5.2 | 0.9 | -0.7 | -0.5 | -0.1 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -16.9 | -16.9 | 8.6 | 8.6 | 2.7 | 2.7 | -0.9 | -0.9 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -111.4 | 129.0 | -240.4 | -236.3 | 146.6 | -382.9 | 9.5 | 34.1 | -24.6 | -35.2 | -8.8 | -26.4 | |||
| Long-term | -34.4 | 15.3 | -49.8 | 40.7 | 105.3 | -64.6 | -3.4 | 22.2 | -25.5 | 4.8 | 9.8 | -5.0 | |||
| Short-term | -76.9 | 113.7 | -190.6 | -277.0 | 41.3 | -318.3 | 12.9 | 11.9 | 0.9 | -40.0 | -18.6 | -21.4 | |||
| Other sectors | -42.3 | -134.2 | 91.8 | -0.9 | 28.1 | -29.0 | 8.1 | 0.1 | 8.0 | 3.0 | 13.4 | -10.4 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -45.9 | -45.9 | -21.4 | -21.4 | -0.4 | -0.4 | -4.2 | -4.2 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -17.2 | -17.2 | -4.7 | -4.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | -2.0 | -2.0 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -30.7 | 38.1 | 1.2 | 2.2 | |||||||||||