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 2009 (revised) | April 2009 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2008 | April 2009 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | -11.6 | 2,756.8 | 2,768.3 | -104.0 | 2,596.4 | 2,700.4 | -4.0 | 195.8 | 199.7 | -9.2 | 185.8 | 194.9 | |||
| Goods | 39.1 | 1,560.3 | 1,521.2 | -11.0 | 1,464.8 | 1,475.8 | 2.8 | 111.0 | 108.3 | 4.0 | 104.0 | 100.0 | |||
| Services | 51.2 | 502.2 | 450.9 | 35.6 | 491.3 | 455.7 | 1.4 | 36.6 | 35.2 | 2.3 | 36.9 | 34.6 | |||
| Income | -9.5 | 603.1 | 612.5 | -33.5 | 553.8 | 587.3 | 3.0 | 43.4 | 40.4 | -6.9 | 39.5 | 46.4 | |||
| Current transfers | -92.4 | 91.2 | 183.6 | -95.0 | 86.5 | 181.6 | -11.2 | 4.7 | 15.9 | -8.6 | 5.4 | 13.9 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 15.1 | 27.1 | 12.0 | 10.7 | 23.4 | 12.7 | 1.4 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 0.7 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 67.5 | 360.8 | 57.8 | 2.8 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -171.0 | -489.4 | 318.4 | -200.9 | -320.8 | 120.0 | -18.9 | -27.4 | 8.6 | -1.2 | -56.6 | 55.4 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -152.4 | -355.8 | 204.6 | -96.8 | -211.8 | 115.6 | -3.1 | -11.1 | 8.1 | 0.0 | -47.9 | 47.9 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -19.4 | -133.6 | 113.8 | -105.2 | -109.1 | 4.3 | -15.8 | -16.3 | 0.5 | -1.2 | -8.8 | 7.5 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 130.7 | -353.2 | 483.8 | 497.2 | 182.4 | 314.9 | 85.9 | 54.8 | 31.0 | -6.0 | -0.4 | -5.7 | |||
| Equity | 86.0 | -5.8 | 91.8 | -101.5 | 80.1 | -181.6 | -1.4 | 2.1 | -3.6 | -18.8 | 1.5 | -20.2 | |||
| Debt instruments | 44.6 | -347.4 | 392.0 | 598.7 | 102.2 | 496.5 | 87.3 | 52.7 | 34.6 | 12.7 | -1.8 | 14.6 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 117.2 | -232.5 | 349.7 | 265.2 | 5.8 | 259.4 | 75.8 | 32.5 | 43.3 | -19.2 | -6.8 | -12.4 | |||
| Money market instruments | -72.6 | -114.9 | 42.3 | 333.5 | 96.4 | 237.1 | 11.5 | 20.2 | -8.7 | 31.9 | 5.0 | 26.9 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -40.3 | -842.6 | 802.2 | 296.3 | -138.5 | 434.8 | 67.0 | 27.4 | 39.6 | -7.3 | -57.0 | 49.7 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -76.7 | 11.6 | 0.6 | 6.7 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 194.8 | -740.3 | 935.2 | 42.6 | 540.5 | -497.9 | -8.9 | 87.1 | -96.1 | 3.2 | -27.7 | 30.9 | |||
| Eurosystem | 84.0 | -18.9 | 102.9 | 149.3 | 15.8 | 133.5 | 7.9 | 2.3 | 5.6 | -30.6 | -1.6 | -28.9 | |||
| General government | -0.1 | 2.8 | -2.9 | 14.6 | 7.0 | 7.6 | 0.5 | -0.8 | 1.3 | 9.3 | 9.9 | -0.6 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -0.2 | -0.2 | 7.0 | 7.0 | -0.9 | -0.9 | 10.2 | 10.2 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 187.6 | -414.9 | 602.5 | -162.2 | 493.3 | -655.5 | -25.5 | 85.4 | -110.9 | -1.8 | -39.6 | 37.8 | |||
| long-term | -133.0 | -183.4 | 50.4 | -206.6 | -147.1 | -59.5 | -15.5 | -5.1 | -10.3 | -6.1 | 1.3 | -7.3 | |||
| short-term | 320.6 | -231.5 | 552.1 | 44.5 | 640.4 | -595.9 | -10.0 | 90.5 | -100.6 | 4.2 | -40.9 | 45.1 | |||
| Other sectors | -76.7 | -309.4 | 232.7 | 40.9 | 24.4 | 16.4 | 8.2 | 0.3 | 7.9 | 26.3 | 3.7 | 22.6 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 11.8 | 11.8 | 61.3 | 61.3 | -3.0 | -3.0 | 7.2 | 7.2 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -10.3 | -10.3 | 10.2 | 10.2 | -0.9 | -0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -71.0 | -267.5 | -55.3 | 4.4 | |||||||||||