Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area
(EUR billions; transactions; non−working day and non−seasonally adjusted data)
| Cumulated figures for the 12-month period ending | July 2010 (revised) | August 2010 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2009 | August 2010 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | -103.5 | 2,388.3 | 2,491.8 | -50.8 | 2,429.2 | 2,480.0 | 3.4 | 223.2 | 219.8 | -10.5 | 201.2 | 211.7 | |||
| Goods | 11.7 | 1,348.9 | 1,337.2 | 32.4 | 1,457.7 | 1,425.3 | 7.6 | 140.0 | 132.4 | -3.8 | 122.3 | 126.1 | |||
| Services | 29.0 | 485.5 | 456.5 | 35.2 | 488.9 | 453.7 | 4.0 | 45.7 | 41.7 | 2.5 | 43.7 | 41.3 | |||
| Income | -48.8 | 466.2 | 515.0 | -18.2 | 397.6 | 415.7 | -0.7 | 32.7 | 33.4 | 0.2 | 30.5 | 30.3 | |||
| Current transfers | -95.4 | 87.8 | 183.2 | -100.2 | 85.0 | 185.3 | -7.5 | 4.8 | 12.3 | -9.4 | 4.7 | 14.1 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 7.1 | 18.9 | 11.9 | 7.3 | 20.8 | 13.5 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 0.9 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 89.4 | 95.1 | 4.8 | 10.3 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -137.6 | -312.5 | 174.9 | -113.0 | -196.0 | 83.0 | -0.6 | -8.4 | 7.9 | -11.0 | -16.0 | 5.0 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -7.5 | -193.3 | 186.3 | 18.3 | -126.5 | 144.8 | -1.0 | -7.8 | 6.8 | -16.0 | -20.7 | 4.6 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -130.8 | -119.2 | -11.4 | -131.3 | -69.5 | -61.9 | 0.5 | -0.6 | 1.1 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 0.3 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 403.7 | 196.1 | 207.6 | 244.4 | -95.6 | 340.0 | -17.0 | -21.3 | 4.4 | 10.2 | -21.8 | 32.0 | |||
| Equity | 15.7 | 83.9 | -68.3 | -16.0 | -68.8 | 52.8 | 6.7 | 1.7 | 4.9 | 21.7 | 0.1 | 21.6 | |||
| Debt instruments | 388.1 | 112.2 | 275.9 | 260.4 | -26.8 | 287.2 | -23.6 | -23.0 | -0.6 | -11.4 | -21.8 | 10.4 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 74.6 | 35.7 | 38.8 | 130.0 | -53.2 | 183.3 | -34.5 | 2.7 | -37.2 | -22.5 | -14.2 | -8.3 | |||
| Money market instruments | 313.5 | 76.4 | 237.1 | 130.4 | 26.4 | 103.9 | 10.9 | -25.8 | 36.7 | 11.1 | -7.6 | 18.8 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 266.1 | -116.4 | 382.5 | 131.4 | -291.6 | 422.9 | -17.5 | -29.7 | 12.2 | -0.8 | -37.7 | 37.0 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 26.7 | 22.1 | 1.0 | 3.9 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -205.8 | 589.8 | -795.6 | -53.2 | -111.8 | 58.6 | 24.5 | 45.3 | -20.9 | 8.7 | -77.6 | 86.2 | |||
| Eurosystem | 36.6 | 12.9 | 23.7 | -36.9 | 5.7 | -42.5 | -3.1 | -2.0 | -1.1 | -1.3 | 0.9 | -2.3 | |||
| General government | -0.2 | -7.2 | 7.0 | 1.7 | -10.4 | 12.2 | -5.2 | -6.3 | 1.0 | 0.2 | -0.6 | 0.7 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -1.5 | -1.5 | -0.3 | -0.3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | -1.0 | -1.0 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -163.8 | 559.5 | -723.3 | -6.5 | -50.0 | 43.5 | 18.2 | 51.0 | -32.7 | 1.3 | -71.6 | 72.9 | |||
| Long-term | -140.1 | -46.8 | -93.3 | 69.3 | 38.2 | 31.2 | 30.6 | 35.6 | -5.0 | 4.5 | -3.0 | 7.5 | |||
| Short-term | -23.8 | 606.3 | -630.0 | -75.8 | -88.2 | 12.4 | -12.4 | 15.4 | -27.8 | -3.2 | -68.6 | 65.4 | |||
| Other sectors | -78.4 | 24.6 | -102.9 | -11.6 | -57.0 | 45.4 | 14.6 | 2.7 | 11.9 | 8.5 | -6.4 | 14.9 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -1.0 | -1.0 | -5.3 | -5.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | -14.1 | -14.1 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 2.4 | 2.4 | -5.1 | -5.1 | -3.1 | -3.1 | -1.6 | -1.6 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 7.0 | -51.6 | -9.8 | -0.0 | |||||||||||