Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area
(EUR billions; transactions, non−seasonally adjusted data)
| Twelve-month cumulated figures ending | June 2005 (revised) | July 2005 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2004 | July 2005 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 49.5 | 1,746.9 | 1,697.4 | 6.3 | 1,888.6 | 1,882.3 | -0.5 | 170.3 | 170.8 | 0.2 | 166.7 | 166.5 | |||
| Goods | 122.0 | 1,087.9 | 965.9 | 73.5 | 1,168.2 | 1,094.6 | 8.6 | 106.5 | 97.8 | 9.1 | 103.5 | 94.3 | |||
| Services | 23.9 | 342.0 | 318.1 | 26.3 | 362.9 | 336.6 | 3.2 | 32.1 | 28.9 | 3.4 | 35.2 | 31.9 | |||
| Income | -40.4 | 236.7 | 277.1 | -34.4 | 275.1 | 309.5 | -6.1 | 26.2 | 32.3 | -6.7 | 22.9 | 29.6 | |||
| Current transfers | -56.0 | 80.3 | 136.3 | -59.1 | 82.5 | 141.6 | -6.3 | 5.5 | 11.7 | -5.6 | 5.1 | 10.7 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 18.1 | 24.4 | 6.3 | 14.7 | 22.7 | 8.0 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.5 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -10.1 | 61.8 | 16.5 | -2.9 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -66.8 | -133.4 | 66.6 | -151.5 | -228.8 | 77.4 | -9.9 | -22.3 | 12.4 | -80.1 | -82.5 | 2.4 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -27.7 | -113.3 | 85.5 | -157.7 | -218.3 | 60.6 | -21.3 | -19.5 | -1.8 | -71.0 | -75.0 | 3.9 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -39.1 | -20.1 | -19.0 | 6.2 | -10.5 | 16.8 | 11.4 | -2.8 | 14.2 | -9.1 | -7.5 | -1.6 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -14.1 | -283.2 | 269.1 | 265.7 | -336.7 | 602.4 | 102.6 | -20.3 | 122.9 | 73.7 | -34.8 | 108.4 | |||
| Equity | -4.5 | -90.7 | 86.2 | 201.2 | -72.5 | 273.7 | 61.7 | 4.4 | 57.3 | 90.1 | -14.7 | 104.8 | |||
| Debt instruments | -9.6 | -192.4 | 182.9 | 64.5 | -264.3 | 328.7 | 40.9 | -24.7 | 65.5 | -16.5 | -20.1 | 3.6 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 34.8 | -128.0 | 162.8 | 53.4 | -236.9 | 290.3 | 46.7 | -29.1 | 75.8 | -17.7 | -18.9 | 1.2 | |||
| Money market instruments | -44.3 | -64.4 | 20.1 | 11.1 | -27.4 | 38.5 | -5.9 | 4.4 | -10.3 | 1.2 | -1.2 | 2.4 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -80.9 | -416.5 | 335.6 | 114.2 | -565.6 | 679.8 | 92.7 | -42.6 | 135.3 | -6.5 | -117.2 | 110.8 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -1.0 | -8.5 | 5.1 | 0.5 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 51.3 | -171.8 | 223.1 | -59.4 | -518.8 | 459.4 | -82.1 | -28.4 | -53.8 | 0.8 | -39.7 | 40.4 | |||
| Eurosystem | 3.8 | -0.6 | 4.4 | 9.1 | -0.6 | 9.7 | 0.3 | -0.5 | 0.9 | -1.1 | -0.0 | -1.1 | |||
| General government | -5.6 | -0.5 | -5.1 | -1.2 | -1.0 | -0.2 | -3.1 | -3.0 | -0.1 | -0.2 | -0.6 | 0.3 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -7.2 | -7.2 | -6.1 | -6.1 | -4.3 | -4.3 | |||||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 67.8 | -141.2 | 209.0 | -46.3 | -403.9 | 357.6 | -87.7 | -18.7 | -69.1 | 7.6 | -34.4 | 42.0 | |||
| long-term | -13.1 | -35.1 | 22.0 | -25.6 | -63.4 | 37.8 | 7.1 | -5.9 | 13.0 | -6.9 | -10.3 | 3.4 | |||
| short-term | 80.9 | -106.2 | 187.0 | -20.7 | -340.5 | 319.8 | -94.9 | -12.8 | -82.1 | 14.5 | -24.1 | 38.6 | |||
| Other sectors | -14.8 | -29.5 | 14.8 | -21.0 | -113.3 | 92.3 | 8.4 | -6.1 | 14.5 | -5.5 | -4.6 | -0.8 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -14.6 | -14.6 | 6.5 | 6.5 | -4.8 | -4.8 | |||||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 20.6 | 20.6 | 15.5 | 15.5 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 2.3 | 2.3 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -57.5 | -82.8 | -17.9 | 1.8 | |||||||||||