Table 1: Balance of payments of the euro area
(EUR billions)
| 1999 | 2000 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July | January – July | July | January – July | ||||||||||
| Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | ||
| 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. | |||||||||||||
| CURRENT ACCOUNT | 115.9 | 109.4 | 6.4 | 741.8 | 720.4 | 21.4 | 132.2 | 134.4 | −2.2 | 872.6 | 886.6 | −14.0 | |
| Goods | 72.8 | 58.2 | 14.6 | 445.6 | 384.6 | 60.9 | 83.9 | 75.5 | 8.4 | 543.3 | 507.9 | 35.5 | |
| Services | 22.7 | 22.8 | −0.1 | 132.7 | 135.8 | −3.1 | 24.8 | 24.2 | −0.6 | 148.2 | 154.6 | −6.4 | |
| Income | 15.7 | 19.3 | −3.6 | 120.3 | 137.4 | −17.1 | 19.7 | 25.4 | −5.7 | 136.7 | 157.8 | −21.1 | |
| Current transfers | 4.6 | 9.1 | −4.5 | 43.2 | 62.2 | −19.4 | 3.9 | 9.4 | −5.5 | 44.4 | 66.3 | −21.9 | |
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 10.3 | 3.5 | 6.9 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 9.4 | 3.5 | 5.9 | |
| Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | ||
| FINANCIAL ACCOUNT ( 1 ) | −24.4 | −85.8 | 7.0 | 51.0 | |||||||||
| DIRECT INVESTMENT ( 2 ) | −3.6 | −6.2 | −9.8 | −116.8 | 38.8 | −78.0 | −9.9 | −1.5 | −11.3 | −138.2 | 255.5 | 117.3 | |
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | −21.2 | 9.2 | −12.0 | −90.5 | 218.7 | 128.2 | |||||||
| Other capital, mostly intercompany loans | 11.3 | −10.7 | 0.6 | −47.8 | 36.8 | −10.9 | |||||||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | −22.0 | 18.8 | −3.2 | −172.9 | 108.1 | −64.9 | −30.8 | 24.9 | −5.9 | −273.2 | 105.0 | −168.2 | |
| Equity | −9.8 | 11.0 | 1.2 | −72.4 | 36.9 | −35.5 | −22.2 | 7.7 | −14.5 | −196.5 | −58.7 | −255.3 | |
| Debt instruments | −12.2 | 7.8 | −4.4 | −100.5 | 71.2 | −29.3 | −8.6 | 17.2 | 8.6 | −76.7 | 163.7 | 78.1 | |
| Bonds and notes | −11.8 | 0.4 | −11.4 | −108.1 | 37.0 | −71.2 | −7.1 | 25.6 | 18.5 | −66.5 | 123.4 | 56.9 | |
| Money market instruments | 0.3 | 7.4 | 7.0 | 7.6 | 34.2 | 41.8 | −1.6 | −8.4 | −10.0 | −10.1 | 40.3 | 30.2 | |
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 0.8 | −1.2 | −3.2 | 3.2 | |||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | −14.2 | 2.7 | −11.5 | −47.9 | 94.8 | 46.9 | 9.2 | 18.8 | 28.0 | −68.1 | 181.8 | 95.7 | |
| Eurosystem | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 8.1 | 0.0 | 8.1 | −1.3 | 0.0 | −1.3 | −3.4 | 0.0 | −3.4 | |
| General government | −1.7 | −1.2 | −2.9 | −1.1 | −8.2 | −9.4 | 3.5 | 0.1 | 3.6 | 0.1 | −1.8 | −1.6 | |
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | −8.2 | 0.4 | −7.7 | −13.3 | 78.5 | 65.2 | 9.8 | 19.2 | 29.0 | −32.0 | 160.4 | 128.4 | |
| Long-term | −2.1 | 3.7 | 1.5 | 31.7 | 24.0 | −7.7 | −1.9 | 6.8 | 4.9 | −17.2 | 33.5 | 16.3 | |
| Short-term | −6.0 | −3.2 | −9.3 | 18.4 | 54.5 | 72.9 | 11.7 | 12.4 | 24.1 | −14.8 | 126.9 | 112.1 | |
| Other sectors | −5.1 | 3.5 | −1.6 | −41.5 | 24.5 | −.17.0 | −2.8 | −0.5 | −3.3 | −50.9 | 23.3 | −27.6 | |
| RESERVE ASSETS | −0.8 | 11.3 | −0.5 | 3.0 | |||||||||
| Errors and omissions | 17.3 | 57.6 | −5.3 | −42.9 | |||||||||