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 | August 2007 (revised) | September 2007 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2006 | September 2007 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 2,288.6 | 2,315.3 | 25.5 | 2,549.1 | 2,523.6 | 1.5 | 210.5 | 209.0 | 4.4 | 215.8 | 211.5 | |||
| Goods | 9.2 | 1,344.1 | 1,334.9 | 65.3 | 1,485.1 | 1,419.8 | 4.5 | 120.0 | 115.5 | 5.6 | 126.0 | 120.4 | |||
| Services | 36.1 | 422.5 | 386.4 | 42.7 | 456.6 | 413.9 | 3.5 | 42.2 | 38.7 | 4.8 | 40.4 | 35.6 | |||
| Income | 7.9 | 440.9 | 433.0 | -5.8 | 517.8 | 523.6 | 1.3 | 42.2 | 40.9 | 2.2 | 44.6 | 42.4 | |||
| Current transfers | -79.9 | 81.1 | 161.1 | -76.6 | 89.7 | 166.3 | -7.8 | 6.2 | 14.0 | -8.2 | 4.9 | 13.1 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 8.7 | 23.3 | 14.6 | 13.3 | 25.3 | 12.0 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.8 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 116.6 | 93.0 | 63.8 | -3.7 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -127.3 | -333.8 | 206.5 | -165.9 | -353.3 | 187.4 | -7.2 | -26.1 | 18.9 | -22.6 | -38.9 | 16.3 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -100.6 | -277.6 | 177.0 | -109.8 | -242.2 | 132.4 | -12.7 | -19.3 | 6.6 | -6.2 | -20.3 | 14.2 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -26.7 | -56.2 | 29.4 | -56.0 | -111.0 | 54.9 | 5.5 | -6.8 | 12.4 | -16.5 | -18.5 | 2.1 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 111.2 | -496.8 | 608.1 | 414.5 | -447.0 | 861.5 | 21.9 | 19.4 | 2.5 | 46.2 | 11.4 | 34.8 | |||
| Equity | 107.7 | -181.8 | 289.4 | 263.7 | -50.6 | 314.2 | -13.9 | 7.1 | -21.0 | 21.2 | 4.7 | 16.5 | |||
| Debt instruments | 3.6 | -315.1 | 318.6 | 150.8 | -396.4 | 547.3 | 35.8 | 12.3 | 23.5 | 25.0 | 6.7 | 18.3 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 55.5 | -271.2 | 326.8 | 131.2 | -351.2 | 482.4 | 10.6 | -10.9 | 21.5 | 2.3 | -5.2 | 7.5 | |||
| Money market instruments | -52.0 | -43.8 | -8.1 | 19.7 | -45.2 | 64.9 | 25.2 | 23.2 | 2.0 | 22.7 | 11.9 | 10.8 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -16.1 | -830.6 | 814.5 | 248.6 | -800.3 | 1,048.9 | 14.7 | -6.7 | 21.4 | 23.6 | -27.5 | 51.1 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -4.4 | -65.2 | -11.9 | -9.4 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 127.6 | -579.9 | 707.5 | -78.0 | -1,061.7 | 983.8 | 59.6 | -26.1 | 85.7 | -15.6 | -196.7 | 181.1 | |||
| Eurosystem | 10.0 | -3.0 | 12.9 | 8.3 | -11.4 | 19.7 | 1.7 | -2.6 | 4.3 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 1.2 | |||
| General government | 7.2 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 3.9 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 4.5 | 0.6 | 4.0 | 0.7 | -0.4 | 1.1 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -1.1 | -1.1 | -1.3 | -1.3 | 0.9 | 0.9 | -0.8 | -0.8 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 116.5 | -400.4 | 516.9 | -36.3 | -714.7 | 678.4 | 45.9 | -10.9 | 56.9 | -4.1 | -32.9 | 28.9 | |||
| long-term | -37.7 | -98.7 | 61.0 | -137.7 | -250.6 | 112.9 | -22.7 | -23.3 | 0.5 | -26.9 | -24.7 | -2.2 | |||
| short-term | 154.3 | -301.7 | 455.9 | 101.4 | -464.1 | 565.5 | 68.7 | 12.3 | 56.3 | 22.8 | -8.2 | 31.1 | |||
| Other sectors | -6.1 | -181.2 | 175.1 | -53.8 | -338.0 | 284.2 | 7.4 | -13.2 | 20.6 | -13.8 | -163.8 | 150.0 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -17.8 | -17.8 | -51.1 | -51.1 | -5.0 | -5.0 | -22.2 | -22.2 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 9.5 | 9.5 | -12.4 | -12.4 | 1.3 | 1.3 | -2.3 | -2.3 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -98.6 | -131.8 | -65.5 | -0.8 | |||||||||||