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 | February 2013 (revised) | March 2013 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2012 | March 2013 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 28.4 | 3,028.9 | 3,000.5 | 149.5 | 3,148.5 | 2,999.0 | 11.5 | 247.4 | 235.8 | 24.8 | 267.9 | 243.2 | |||
| Goods | 23.4 | 1,824.3 | 1,800.9 | 127.0 | 1,920.8 | 1,793.7 | 12.0 | 152.2 | 140.3 | 23.9 | 168.4 | 144.5 | |||
| Services | 79.5 | 591.2 | 511.7 | 91.5 | 628.0 | 536.4 | 6.2 | 46.2 | 40.0 | 5.7 | 49.8 | 44.1 | |||
| Income | 36.6 | 518.0 | 481.4 | 37.7 | 498.8 | 461.0 | 7.5 | 37.1 | 29.6 | 5.9 | 43.0 | 37.1 | |||
| Current transfers | -111.1 | 95.3 | 206.4 | -106.8 | 101.0 | 207.8 | -14.2 | 11.8 | 26.0 | -10.7 | 6.8 | 17.5 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 12.0 | 25.8 | 13.8 | 15.5 | 29.5 | 14.0 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 0.8 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -35.0 | -177.4 | -19.0 | -24.6 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -99.4 | -368.9 | 269.5 | -66.3 | -210.8 | 144.5 | -2.4 | -14.8 | 12.4 | -14.4 | -29.4 | 15.1 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -12.3 | -307.3 | 295.0 | -30.0 | -158.8 | 128.8 | -4.0 | -9.3 | 5.3 | -0.2 | -12.7 | 12.5 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -87.1 | -61.6 | -25.6 | -36.3 | -52.0 | 15.7 | 1.5 | -5.6 | 7.1 | -14.2 | -16.7 | 2.5 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 41.9 | -48.4 | 90.3 | 162.3 | -149.9 | 312.2 | -4.1 | -39.7 | 35.7 | 8.3 | -22.7 | 31.0 | |||
| Equity | 65.7 | 44.3 | 21.3 | 45.4 | -100.5 | 145.9 | -3.6 | -16.8 | 13.2 | 0.1 | -26.4 | 26.6 | |||
| Debt instruments | -23.8 | -92.8 | 69.0 | 116.9 | -49.4 | 166.3 | -0.5 | -23.0 | 22.5 | 8.1 | 3.7 | 4.4 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 95.2 | -39.2 | 134.4 | 63.3 | -81.3 | 144.6 | -11.8 | -12.5 | 0.8 | 6.3 | 2.7 | 3.6 | |||
| Money market instruments | -119.0 | -53.6 | -65.4 | 53.6 | 31.9 | 21.6 | 11.3 | -10.4 | 21.7 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.8 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -57.6 | -417.3 | 359.7 | 96.0 | -360.7 | 456.6 | -6.5 | -54.6 | 48.1 | -6.1 | -52.2 | 46.1 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -12.7 | 26.3 | 5.9 | 2.8 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 35.9 | -168.0 | 203.9 | -287.8 | 46.7 | -334.4 | -21.0 | -21.4 | 0.4 | -23.5 | 32.7 | -56.2 | |||
| Eurosystem | 59.0 | 5.0 | 54.0 | 57.9 | -3.3 | 61.2 | -11.8 | -1.5 | -10.3 | 5.7 | 6.4 | -0.6 | |||
| General government | 49.5 | -3.5 | 53.1 | -7.2 | -4.4 | -2.7 | -1.0 | 0.9 | -1.9 | 1.2 | 1.5 | -0.3 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -8.8 | -8.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | -2.8 | -2.8 | 1.7 | 1.7 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -55.9 | -20.9 | -34.9 | -262.9 | 149.2 | -412.1 | 13.9 | 8.8 | 5.1 | 4.8 | 43.9 | -39.1 | |||
| Long-term | -36.1 | -12.6 | -23.5 | 2.0 | 37.8 | -35.8 | 6.2 | 14.7 | -8.5 | -0.5 | -3.7 | 3.2 | |||
| Short-term | -19.8 | -8.4 | -11.4 | -264.9 | 111.5 | -376.3 | 7.8 | -5.9 | 13.6 | 5.2 | 47.6 | -42.3 | |||
| Other sectors | -16.8 | -148.6 | 131.8 | -75.6 | -94.8 | 19.2 | -22.1 | -29.6 | 7.5 | -35.2 | -19.1 | -16.1 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -62.1 | -62.1 | -31.4 | -31.4 | -12.2 | -12.2 | -9.0 | -9.0 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -0.6 | -0.6 | -11.9 | -11.9 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 2.2 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -5.4 | 12.3 | 5.9 | -1.5 | |||||||||||