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 | June 2008 (revised) | July 2008 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | July 2008 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 27.1 | 2,555.4 | 2,528.3 | -23.7 | 2,744.4 | 2,768.1 | 1.1 | 234.6 | 233.5 | -1.1 | 239.7 | 240.8 | |||
| Goods | 56.1 | 1,468.4 | 1,412.3 | 21.1 | 1,569.7 | 1,548.7 | 3.1 | 135.7 | 132.6 | 0.9 | 141.0 | 140.1 | |||
| Services | 44.6 | 466.8 | 422.1 | 50.6 | 498.0 | 447.4 | 5.0 | 42.2 | 37.2 | 5.9 | 46.7 | 40.8 | |||
| Income | 4.1 | 528.1 | 524.0 | -2.5 | 587.6 | 590.2 | -1.7 | 50.5 | 52.2 | -0.4 | 47.3 | 47.7 | |||
| Current transfers | -77.7 | 92.1 | 169.9 | -92.8 | 89.0 | 181.9 | -5.3 | 6.2 | 11.5 | -7.6 | 4.6 | 12.2 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 13.3 | 25.7 | 12.3 | 14.8 | 28.4 | 13.6 | -0.2 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 0.9 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 128.0 | 59.8 | 12.7 | -4.5 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -160.5 | -376.6 | 216.1 | -218.7 | -360.0 | 141.4 | -23.1 | -31.3 | 8.2 | -14.5 | -25.7 | 11.2 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -121.7 | -290.4 | 167.4 | -165.4 | -245.5 | 79.0 | -17.3 | -16.1 | -1.2 | -15.7 | -23.1 | 7.3 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -36.1 | -86.1 | 48.7 | -52.1 | -114.5 | 62.4 | -5.8 | -15.2 | 9.4 | 1.2 | -2.6 | 3.8 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 392.1 | -576.4 | 968.5 | 121.4 | -234.1 | 355.5 | 51.9 | -7.0 | 59.0 | -4.6 | -14.2 | 9.6 | |||
| Equity | 243.7 | -89.8 | 333.5 | 20.0 | 8.7 | 11.3 | 4.6 | -2.6 | 7.2 | 0.3 | -5.9 | 6.3 | |||
| Debt instruments | 148.4 | -486.6 | 635.0 | 101.4 | -242.8 | 344.2 | 47.4 | -4.4 | 51.8 | -5.0 | -8.3 | 3.3 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 187.6 | -384.9 | 572.6 | 136.0 | -178.9 | 314.9 | 20.0 | -9.5 | 29.5 | 1.4 | 2.4 | -1.0 | |||
| Money market instruments | -39.3 | -101.7 | 62.4 | -34.6 | -64.0 | 29.4 | 27.4 | 5.1 | 22.2 | -6.4 | -10.7 | 4.3 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 231.6 | -953.0 | 1,184.6 | -97.3 | -594.2 | 496.9 | 28.9 | -38.3 | 67.2 | -19.1 | -39.9 | 20.8 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -42.4 | -94.7 | 4.6 | 2.2 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -48.2 | -923.4 | 875.3 | 255.0 | -475.7 | 730.7 | -21.3 | 128.0 | -149.2 | 14.1 | -10.8 | 24.8 | |||
| Eurosystem | 7.8 | -10.3 | 18.1 | 78.5 | -15.8 | 94.3 | 2.5 | -0.3 | 2.7 | 0.1 | 0.6 | -0.5 | |||
| General government | 8.4 | 7.7 | 0.7 | 10.2 | 5.9 | 4.3 | -1.3 | -1.3 | -0.0 | 11.5 | 8.9 | 2.6 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 0.2 | 0.2 | 4.4 | 4.4 | -1.1 | -1.1 | 9.3 | 9.3 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -50.8 | -746.0 | 695.2 | 199.8 | -214.8 | 414.6 | -20.2 | 122.9 | -143.1 | 8.0 | -7.1 | 15.1 | |||
| long-term | -92.9 | -230.6 | 137.6 | -205.3 | -190.8 | -14.5 | -19.2 | -18.9 | -0.3 | -22.3 | -25.3 | 3.0 | |||
| short-term | 42.1 | -515.5 | 557.6 | 405.1 | -24.0 | 429.1 | -1.0 | 141.8 | -142.8 | 30.3 | 18.2 | 12.1 | |||
| Other sectors | -13.5 | -174.8 | 161.3 | -33.5 | -250.9 | 217.4 | -2.2 | 6.6 | -8.8 | -5.6 | -13.2 | 7.6 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -12.8 | -12.8 | 29.2 | 29.2 | 20.1 | 20.1 | -4.8 | -4.8 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -13.1 | -13.1 | -3.3 | -3.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | -1.7 | -1.7 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -168.4 | -50.9 | -13.5 | 4.7 | |||||||||||