Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area ( 1 )
(EUR billions; non−seasonally adjusted data)
| July 2004 | June 2004 (revised) | Monthly average, previous six months | 12-month cumulated figures ending | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2004 - June 2004 | July 2004 | July 2003 | |||||||||||||
| Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | |
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
| ( 1 ) Figures may not add up due to rounding. | |||||||||||||||
| ( 2 ) Financial account: inflows (+); outflows (−). Reserve assets: increase (−); decrease (+). | |||||||||||||||
| ( 3 ) Direct investment: assets refer to direct investment abroad and liabilities to direct investment in the euro area. | |||||||||||||||
| CURRENTACCOUNT | 154.7 | 151.6 | 3.1 | 157.5 | 152.1 | 5.4 | 145.6 | 141.9 | 3.7 | 1725.4 | 1673.8 | 51.6 | 1681.9 | 1649.2 | 32.7 |
| Goods | 98.3 | 84.6 | 13.7 | 99.7 | 87.5 | 12.2 | 91.9 | 81.5 | 10.4 | 1086.6 | 958.6 | 128.0 | 1042.5 | 929.0 | 113.5 |
| Services | 30.6 | 29.3 | 1.3 | 29.8 | 26.9 | 2.9 | 26.6 | 25.8 | 0.8 | 330.1 | 318.8 | 11.2 | 328.3 | 309.7 | 18.6 |
| Income | 20.8 | 26.4 | -5.6 | 22.8 | 25.4 | -2.6 | 19.4 | 22.7 | -3.4 | 228.2 | 259.7 | -31.5 | 226.8 | 273.8 | -47.0 |
| Current transfers | 5.0 | 11.3 | -6.3 | 5.2 | 12.3 | -7.1 | 7.8 | 11.8 | -4.0 | 80.5 | 136.7 | -56.2 | 84.3 | 136.6 | -52.4 |
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 1.7 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 23.9 | 6.7 | 17.2 | 19.3 | 11.1 | 8.2 |
| Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | |
| FINANCIALACCOUNT2) | -11.8 | 0.8; | -4.8; | -45.1; | -122.3 | ||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT3) | -11.3 | 3.1 | -8.3 | -11.9 | 4.1 | -7.8 | -7.8 | 0.9 | -6.9 | -108.0 | 33.8 | -74.2 | -122.2 | 140.9 | 18.7 |
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -9.6 | 5.1 | -4.5 | -12.5 | 3.6 | -8.9 | -7.1 | 2.6 | -4.4 | -96.6 | 62.2 | -34.3 | -101.6 | 119.7 | 18.2 |
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -1.7 | -2.0 | -3.8 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.0 | -0.7 | -1.7 | -2.4 | -11.4 | -28.5 | -39.9 | -20.7 | 21.2 | 0.5 |
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -33.0 | 2.5 | -30.5 | -12.6 | 43.8 | 31.2 | -25.2 | 26.8 | 1.6 | -284.6 | 248.7 | -35.9 | -223.4 | 305.9 | 82.5 |
| Equity | -2.9 | 9.1 | 6.2 | -15.0 | 15.1 | 0.1 | -8.9 | 3.7 | -5.2 | -93.3 | 91.0 | -2.3 | -19.8 | 57.9 | 38.1 |
| Debt instruments | -30.1 | -6.6 | -36.7 | 2.3 | 28.7 | 31.1 | -16.3 | 23.1 | 6.8 | -191.4 | 157.7 | -33.6 | -203.6 | 248.1 | 44.5 |
| Bonds and notes | -12.3 | -3.2 | -15.4 | -5.3 | 24.7 | 19.4 | -12.8 | 19.6 | 6.8 | -129.9 | 154.8 | 24.9 | -169.6 | 189.9 | 20.3 |
| Money market instruments | -17.8 | -3.4 | -21.2 | 7.6 | 4.1 | 11.7 | -3.5 | 3.5 | 0.0 | -61.4 | 2.9 | -58.5 | -34.0 | 58.2 | 24.2 |
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -44.3 | 5.5 | -38.7 | -24.5 | 47.9 | 23.4 | -32.9 | 27.7 | -5.3 | -392.6 | 282.5 | -110.1 | -345.7 | 446.9 | 101.2 |
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -0.9 | 0.1 | 0.8 | -2.5 | -10.7 | ||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 56.8 | -29.6 | 27.2 | 19.2 | -40.8 | -21.6 | -34.0 | 32.6 | -1.3 | -169.4 | 216.1 | 46.8 | -378.7 | 153.1 | -225.6 |
| Eurosystem | -0.3 | 1.8 | 1.5 | -0.0 | 1.4 | 1.3 | -0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -1.0 | 5.1 | 4.0 | -0.8 | 13.9 | 13.1 |
| General government | -0.4 | -0.4 | -0.9 | -3.4 | 1.6 | -1.8 | -0.7 | -0.8 | -1.5 | -0.0 | -6.3 | -6.3 | -5.8 | -4.8 | -10.7 |
| of which: currency and deposits | -0.6 | -0.6 | -3.3 | -3.3 | -0.7 | -0.7 | |||||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 47.3 | -12.2 | 35.1 | 28.0 | -41.7 | -13.7 | -27.9 | 30.5 | 2.6 | -146.6 | 215.2 | 68.6 | -262.6 | 113.9 | -148.7 |
| long-term | 6.9 | -6.5 | 0.3 | -1.8 | 2.2 | 0.4 | -4.8 | 1.0 | -3.8 | -46.2 | 25.6 | -20.5 | -57.6 | 50.7 | -6.9 |
| short-term | 40.4 | -5.7 | 34.8 | 29.9 | -43.9 | -14.0 | -23.2 | 29.6 | 6.4 | -100.4 | 189.6 | 89.1 | -205.0 | 63.1 | -141.8 |
| Other sectors | 10.2 | -18.7 | -8.4 | -5.5 | -1.9 | -7.4 | -5.2 | 2.7 | -2.5 | -21.7 | 2.2 | -19.6 | -109.5 | 30.1 | -79.3 |
| of which: currency and deposits | 4.7 | 4.7 | -2.4 | -2.4 | -1.9 | -1.9 | |||||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 0.6 | 0.6 | -1.1 | -1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 20.7 | 20.7 | 12.7 | 12.7 | |||||
| Errors and omissions | 7.5 | -7.1 | -0.1 | -23.7 | 81.4 | ||||||||||