Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area
(EUR billions; transactions, non−seasonally adjusted data)
| Cumulated figures for the 12-month period ending | March 2006 (revised) | April 2006 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2005 | April 2006 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 29.5 | 1,884.0 | 1,854.5 | -32.4 | 2,098.8 | 2,131.2 | 0.1 | 191.7 | 191.6 | -8.0 | 173.8 | 181.8 | |||
| Goods | 85.9 | 1,146.3 | 1,060.4 | 30.7 | 1,275.5 | 1,244.8 | 2.6 | 121.1 | 118.5 | -0.1 | 107.3 | 107.4 | |||
| Services | 31.0 | 370.8 | 339.8 | 34.4 | 404.3 | 369.9 | 1.5 | 32.2 | 30.7 | 3.0 | 32.6 | 29.7 | |||
| Income | -25.1 | 283.7 | 308.9 | -32.6 | 333.0 | 365.6 | 0.8 | 31.4 | 30.6 | -4.8 | 29.1 | 33.9 | |||
| Current transfers | -62.2 | 83.2 | 145.5 | -64.8 | 86.1 | 150.9 | -4.8 | 6.9 | 11.8 | -6.0 | 4.8 | 10.8 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 14.6 | 23.6 | 9.0 | 14.4 | 23.4 | 9.0 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.6 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 31.2 | 116.7 | 34.7 | 3.1 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -56.3 | -152.4 | 96.2 | -122.3 | -208.0 | 85.7 | 8.6 | -4.3 | 12.9 | -2.5 | -12.4 | 9.9 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -55.8 | -137.1 | 81.3 | -129.0 | -167.4 | 38.4 | -5.5 | -9.5 | 4.0 | 1.6 | -2.2 | 3.8 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -0.5 | -15.3 | 14.8 | 6.7 | -40.6 | 47.3 | 14.2 | 5.2 | 9.0 | -4.1 | -10.2 | 6.1 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 51.7 | -346.4 | 398.1 | 189.6 | -475.8 | 665.4 | 48.4 | -44.4 | 92.9 | -5.7 | -31.6 | 25.9 | |||
| Equity | 22.2 | -103.7 | 126.0 | 218.0 | -162.1 | 380.1 | 39.8 | -12.0 | 51.8 | -13.6 | -3.6 | -9.9 | |||
| Debt instruments | 29.5 | -242.6 | 272.1 | -28.3 | -313.7 | 285.3 | 8.7 | -32.4 | 41.1 | 7.9 | -27.9 | 35.9 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 20.5 | -218.9 | 239.4 | -51.3 | -290.4 | 239.1 | 11.0 | -31.3 | 42.3 | 5.1 | -19.8 | 24.9 | |||
| Money market instruments | 9.0 | -23.8 | 32.8 | 23.0 | -23.2 | 46.2 | -2.3 | -1.1 | -1.2 | 2.8 | -8.1 | 11.0 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -4.6 | -498.8 | 494.2 | 67.3 | -683.8 | 751.1 | 57.1 | -48.7 | 105.8 | -8.1 | -43.9 | 35.8 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -13.7 | -19.0 | -2.1 | -5.8 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 39.8 | -369.6 | 409.4 | 49.4 | -591.1 | 640.5 | -26.3 | -101.6 | 75.4 | 18.3 | -92.6 | 110.9 | |||
| Eurosystem | 13.1 | 0.7 | 12.4 | 2.0 | -6.0 | 8.0 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.7 | -2.1 | 0.2 | -2.3 | |||
| General government | -0.1 | -1.2 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.1 | -0.1 | -0.9 | -5.5 | 4.6 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -2.7 | -2.7 | -2.0 | -2.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | -5.1 | -5.1 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 47.4 | -276.7 | 324.1 | 118.9 | -375.9 | 494.8 | -4.9 | -76.4 | 71.6 | 17.4 | -65.7 | 83.1 | |||
| long-term | -22.0 | -31.4 | 9.4 | -34.0 | -91.1 | 57.2 | -10.7 | -12.9 | 2.2 | 4.0 | -6.2 | 10.2 | |||
| short-term | 69.4 | -245.3 | 314.6 | 152.8 | -284.7 | 437.6 | 5.8 | -63.5 | 69.4 | 13.4 | -59.5 | 72.9 | |||
| Other sectors | -20.6 | -92.4 | 71.9 | -74.1 | -211.3 | 137.2 | -25.0 | -28.2 | 3.2 | 3.9 | -21.6 | 25.6 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -10.5 | -10.5 | -35.8 | -35.8 | -4.8 | -4.8 | 1.9 | 1.9 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 9.7 | 9.7 | 19.0 | 19.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | -1.2 | -1.2 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -75.3 | -98.7 | -35.4 | 4.3 | |||||||||||