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 | April 2006 (revised) | May 2006 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2005 | May 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 | 26.7 | 1,899.6 | 1,872.9 | -46.5 | 2,142.0 | 2,188.5 | -7.3 | 173.9 | 181.2 | -11.9 | 197.0 | 208.9 | |||
| Goods | 81.3 | 1,154.3 | 1,073.0 | 25.9 | 1,294.7 | 1,268.8 | 0.4 | 107.4 | 107.0 | 0.3 | 116.4 | 116.2 | |||
| Services | 30.0 | 372.3 | 342.3 | 37.2 | 413.7 | 376.4 | 3.2 | 32.3 | 29.1 | 3.8 | 36.0 | 32.2 | |||
| Income | -22.7 | 289.5 | 312.2 | -41.0 | 350.7 | 391.7 | -5.1 | 29.3 | 34.4 | -10.7 | 38.9 | 49.6 | |||
| Current transfers | -62.0 | 83.5 | 145.5 | -68.6 | 83.0 | 151.6 | -5.9 | 4.9 | 10.8 | -5.2 | 5.7 | 10.9 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 14.0 | 23.0 | 9.1 | 13.1 | 23.2 | 10.1 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 0.7 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 68.3 | 150.2 | 4.9 | 36.5 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -47.3 | -142.0 | 94.7 | -143.2 | -252.6 | 109.4 | -1.9 | -12.8 | 10.8 | -1.1 | -15.9 | 14.8 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -57.4 | -136.2 | 78.8 | -135.4 | -195.4 | 60.0 | 1.4 | -2.6 | 3.9 | -4.6 | -14.2 | 9.6 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | 10.1 | -5.8 | 15.9 | -7.8 | -57.2 | 49.4 | -3.3 | -10.2 | 6.9 | 3.5 | -1.7 | 5.2 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 83.8 | -366.4 | 450.2 | 212.0 | -484.6 | 696.7 | -5.2 | -31.4 | 26.2 | 48.6 | -12.4 | 61.0 | |||
| Equity | 46.4 | -108.0 | 154.4 | 191.9 | -175.8 | 367.6 | -12.2 | -3.4 | -8.8 | 5.0 | 13.0 | -8.0 | |||
| Debt instruments | 37.4 | -258.4 | 295.8 | 20.2 | -308.9 | 329.0 | 7.0 | -28.0 | 35.0 | 43.6 | -25.3 | 69.0 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 28.1 | -224.2 | 252.4 | 6.3 | -289.4 | 295.7 | 5.5 | -19.1 | 24.6 | 43.4 | -19.6 | 63.1 | |||
| Money market instruments | 9.3 | -34.2 | 43.5 | 13.9 | -19.5 | 33.4 | 1.5 | -8.9 | 10.4 | 0.2 | -5.7 | 5.9 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 36.4 | -508.4 | 544.9 | 68.9 | -737.2 | 806.1 | -7.1 | -44.2 | 37.1 | 47.5 | -28.3 | 75.9 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -11.5 | -20.0 | -5.6 | 2.3 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 31.8 | -393.3 | 425.1 | 85.5 | -650.8 | 736.3 | 18.8 | -92.5 | 111.3 | -11.7 | -78.7 | 67.0 | |||
| Eurosystem | 12.1 | -0.1 | 12.2 | 10.3 | -4.2 | 14.5 | -2.1 | 0.2 | -2.3 | 5.5 | 0.0 | 5.5 | |||
| General government | -0.1 | -0.9 | 0.8 | -5.0 | 0.1 | -5.2 | -1.2 | -5.4 | 4.3 | -9.6 | -4.8 | -4.8 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -0.2 | -0.2 | -8.4 | -8.4 | -5.1 | -5.1 | -5.1 | -5.1 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 57.5 | -277.0 | 334.4 | 87.9 | -426.1 | 514.0 | 17.4 | -65.7 | 83.1 | -2.7 | -46.0 | 43.3 | |||
| long-term | -24.5 | -41.2 | 16.7 | -38.2 | -94.3 | 56.1 | 4.0 | -6.2 | 10.2 | -4.9 | -9.1 | 4.2 | |||
| short-term | 82.0 | -235.8 | 317.8 | 126.0 | -331.8 | 457.8 | 13.4 | -59.5 | 72.8 | 2.2 | -36.9 | 39.1 | |||
| Other sectors | -37.7 | -115.3 | 77.6 | -7.7 | -220.6 | 213.0 | 4.7 | -21.5 | 26.2 | -5.0 | -27.9 | 23.0 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -17.1 | -17.1 | -23.0 | -23.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | -7.1 | -7.1 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 11.7 | 11.7 | 15.9 | 15.9 | -1.2 | -1.2 | -1.7 | -1.7 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -109.0 | -116.8 | 1.9 | -25.2 | |||||||||||