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 | November 2011 (revised) | December 2011 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2010 | December 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 | -42.2 | 2,617.1 | 2,659.3 | -31.5 | 2,879.8 | 2,911.3 | 1.9 | 247.7 | 245.8 | 16.3 | 261.4 | 245.1 | |||
| Goods | 12.9 | 1,560.0 | 1,547.1 | 6.0 | 1,768.6 | 1,762.5 | 6.7 | 159.5 | 152.9 | 10.5 | 150.0 | 139.5 | |||
| Services | 45.9 | 518.8 | 472.9 | 59.6 | 542.7 | 483.1 | 3.0 | 43.3 | 40.3 | 5.4 | 49.6 | 44.2 | |||
| Income | 2.3 | 450.7 | 448.4 | 7.5 | 480.1 | 472.6 | 1.8 | 39.1 | 37.3 | 2.1 | 47.0 | 45.0 | |||
| Current transfers | -103.3 | 87.6 | 190.9 | -104.5 | 88.4 | 193.0 | -9.5 | 5.8 | 15.3 | -1.7 | 14.8 | 16.5 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 5.5 | 21.2 | 15.7 | 9.8 | 23.3 | 13.4 | 2.2 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 3.9 | 2.5 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 44.1 | 9.3 | -6.7 | -23.0 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -49.9 | -174.9 | 125.0 | -69.8 | -237.1 | 167.4 | -8.0 | -13.2 | 5.2 | 1.3 | -19.7 | 21.0 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | 124.8 | -51.1 | 176.7 | -48.5 | -201.5 | 152.9 | -14.1 | -16.2 | 2.1 | -4.4 | -14.5 | 10.1 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -175.3 | -123.8 | -51.7 | -21.2 | -35.7 | 14.4 | 6.1 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 5.7 | -5.2 | 10.9 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 148.0 | -145.6 | 293.6 | 293.4 | 60.3 | 233.1 | 1.5 | 23.2 | -21.7 | 2.0 | -3.4 | 5.3 | |||
| Equity | 52.4 | -76.5 | 128.9 | 92.9 | 62.9 | 29.9 | 8.3 | 14.1 | -5.8 | 14.9 | 6.0 | 8.9 | |||
| Debt instruments | 95.7 | -69.1 | 164.7 | 200.5 | -2.6 | 203.1 | -6.8 | 9.1 | -15.9 | -12.9 | -9.4 | -3.5 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 64.9 | -109.3 | 174.2 | 198.0 | 14.1 | 183.9 | 9.6 | 12.1 | -2.5 | 20.1 | 2.8 | 17.4 | |||
| Money market instruments | 30.7 | 40.3 | -9.5 | 2.5 | -16.7 | 19.2 | -16.5 | -3.0 | -13.5 | -33.1 | -12.2 | -20.9 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 98.1 | -320.5 | 418.6 | 223.7 | -176.8 | 400.5 | -6.5 | 10.0 | -16.5 | 3.2 | -23.1 | 26.3 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 17.4 | -23.4 | 0.6 | -7.1 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -61.2 | -176.7 | 115.5 | -180.9 | -171.4 | -9.5 | -0.5 | 37.1 | -37.6 | -13.7 | 73.7 | -87.4 | |||
| Eurosystem | 11.8 | 2.9 | 8.9 | 140.3 | 3.3 | 136.9 | 0.6 | 3.4 | -2.8 | 102.5 | 1.9 | 100.6 | |||
| General government | 24.6 | -40.0 | 64.6 | 65.1 | -3.0 | 68.0 | -9.6 | -9.4 | -0.2 | 1.9 | -0.3 | 2.2 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -4.9 | -4.9 | -9.5 | -9.5 | -6.8 | -6.8 | 1.5 | 1.5 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -19.3 | -8.5 | -10.8 | -354.7 | -35.7 | -319.1 | 8.6 | 47.4 | -38.8 | -135.8 | 51.0 | -186.8 | |||
| Long-term | 35.0 | 55.3 | -20.3 | -9.1 | -17.2 | 8.1 | 5.9 | 12.0 | -6.1 | -16.3 | -9.0 | -7.2 | |||
| Short-term | -54.3 | -63.8 | 9.5 | -345.6 | -18.5 | -327.2 | 2.6 | 35.4 | -32.7 | -119.5 | 60.1 | -179.5 | |||
| Other sectors | -78.4 | -131.2 | 52.8 | -31.5 | -136.1 | 104.6 | -0.1 | -4.3 | 4.2 | 17.6 | 21.0 | -3.4 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -46.3 | -46.3 | -45.9 | -45.9 | -6.7 | -6.7 | 17.5 | 17.5 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -10.3 | -10.3 | -10.1 | -10.1 | -0.2 | -0.2 | -5.4 | -5.4 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -7.4 | 12.4 | 2.5 | 5.3 | |||||||||||