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 | March 2011 (revised) | April 2011 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2010 | April 2011 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | -13.8 | 2,347.2 | 2,360.9 | -52.6 | 2,700.3 | 2,753.0 | -2.0 | 246.3 | 248.3 | -6.5 | 223.6 | 230.1 | |||
| Goods | 45.8 | 1,362.2 | 1,316.4 | 2.8 | 1,655.3 | 1,652.4 | 3.5 | 158.9 | 155.4 | -3.6 | 140.4 | 143.9 | |||
| Services | 35.3 | 479.6 | 444.4 | 42.4 | 523.6 | 481.2 | 2.3 | 42.7 | 40.4 | 2.6 | 41.1 | 38.5 | |||
| Income | 2.2 | 416.1 | 413.9 | -2.3 | 428.1 | 430.4 | 1.9 | 39.4 | 37.5 | 1.0 | 36.1 | 35.1 | |||
| Current transfers | -97.0 | 89.2 | 186.3 | -95.6 | 93.4 | 188.9 | -9.6 | 5.3 | 14.9 | -6.6 | 6.0 | 12.6 | |||
| CAPITALACCOUNT | 4.9 | 18.8 | 13.9 | 8.4 | 22.6 | 14.2 | -0.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -7.9 | 46.9 | 2.8 | 5.1 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -101.2 | -234.5 | 133.3 | -62.9 | -189.2 | 126.3 | -5.4 | -18.6 | 13.3 | -27.0 | -40.6 | 13.6 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | 40.8 | -156.3 | 198.2 | -20.2 | -102.8 | 83.2 | -0.5 | -6.6 | 6.1 | -30.2 | -37.0 | 6.8 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -142.9 | -78.2 | -64.9 | -43.0 | -86.4 | 43.1 | -4.8 | -12.0 | 7.2 | 3.1 | -3.7 | 6.8 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 270.4 | -188.1 | 458.6 | 284.1 | -91.2 | 375.4 | 80.4 | 8.7 | 71.7 | 47.7 | 5.0 | 42.7 | |||
| Equity | 46.8 | -125.4 | 172.2 | 132.3 | -54.8 | 187.0 | 32.5 | -0.6 | 33.1 | -42.0 | -13.5 | -28.5 | |||
| Debt instruments | 223.7 | -62.7 | 286.4 | 151.9 | -36.5 | 188.3 | 47.9 | 9.3 | 38.6 | 89.7 | 18.5 | 71.2 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 82.5 | -107.4 | 189.9 | 85.4 | -71.3 | 156.6 | 41.5 | 12.6 | 28.9 | 77.8 | 6.4 | 71.5 | |||
| Money market instruments | 141.1 | 44.6 | 96.5 | 66.5 | 34.8 | 31.7 | 6.4 | -3.3 | 9.7 | 11.8 | 12.1 | -0.3 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 169.2 | -422.7 | 591.9 | 221.2 | -280.5 | 501.7 | 75.0 | -10.0 | 85.0 | 20.7 | -35.6 | 56.3 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 11.5 | 3.4 | -1.7 | 0.6 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -181.6 | 165.4 | -347.0 | -167.1 | -106.6 | -60.5 | -64.1 | 58.4 | -122.5 | -22.1 | -117.0 | 94.8 | |||
| Eurosystem | -123.5 | 1.5 | -125.0 | 11.0 | -11.3 | 22.4 | -2.1 | 0.0 | -2.1 | -5.0 | -5.6 | 0.6 | |||
| General government | -13.3 | -13.2 | -0.1 | 49.5 | -35.4 | 84.8 | 8.9 | 1.2 | 7.7 | -3.4 | -1.7 | -1.8 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -3.5 | -3.5 | -0.2 | -0.2 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 7.7 | 92.9 | -85.1 | -209.0 | -40.7 | -168.3 | -86.3 | 38.3 | -124.6 | 8.2 | -95.4 | 103.6 | |||
| Long-term | 17.8 | 19.0 | -1.2 | 62.5 | 24.7 | 37.7 | 6.4 | 5.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | -1.9 | 2.1 | |||
| Short-term | -10.1 | 73.9 | -84.0 | -271.5 | -65.4 | -206.1 | -92.7 | 32.6 | -125.2 | 7.9 | -93.5 | 101.5 | |||
| Other sectors | -52.5 | 84.2 | -136.7 | -18.6 | -19.3 | 0.6 | 15.4 | 18.9 | -3.5 | -21.8 | -14.2 | -7.6 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 37.7 | 37.7 | -15.6 | -15.6 | 7.5 | 7.5 | -4.4 | -4.4 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -7.0 | -7.0 | -10.6 | -10.6 | -6.4 | -6.4 | 5.9 | 5.9 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 16.7 | -2.6 | -0.8 | 1.3 | |||||||||||