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 | October 2006 (revised) | November 2006 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2005 | November 2006 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 4.4 | 2,023.4 | 2,019.0 | -25.5 | 2,298.4 | 2,323.9 | 1.5 | 204.0 | 202.4 | 1.7 | 206.3 | 204.7 | |||
| Goods | 53.7 | 1,212.3 | 1,158.6 | 25.1 | 1,379.4 | 1,354.3 | 5.8 | 127.9 | 122.1 | 6.0 | 129.5 | 123.6 | |||
| Services | 34.3 | 397.0 | 362.6 | 36.1 | 425.8 | 389.7 | 3.9 | 37.4 | 33.5 | 1.3 | 34.1 | 32.8 | |||
| Income | -15.9 | 330.9 | 346.8 | -11.2 | 409.4 | 420.6 | -0.4 | 33.8 | 34.2 | 1.8 | 37.4 | 35.6 | |||
| Current transfers | -67.9 | 83.2 | 151.1 | -75.5 | 83.8 | 159.3 | -7.7 | 4.9 | 12.6 | -7.4 | 5.3 | 12.7 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 13.1 | 23.9 | 10.8 | 9.8 | 22.6 | 12.8 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 0.8 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 68.9 | 113.3 | -4.3 | -17.7 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -180.4 | -257.9 | 77.6 | -133.4 | -300.5 | 167.1 | -15.3 | -20.1 | 4.8 | -11.6 | -11.7 | 0.0 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -148.6 | -211.2 | 62.7 | -131.1 | -257.8 | 126.7 | -14.1 | -12.8 | -1.3 | -18.5 | -14.3 | -4.2 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -31.8 | -46.7 | 14.9 | -2.3 | -42.7 | 40.4 | -1.2 | -7.3 | 6.1 | 6.8 | 2.6 | 4.2 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 196.2 | -375.2 | 571.4 | 214.1 | -487.2 | 701.3 | 22.5 | -48.8 | 71.3 | 45.1 | -46.3 | 91.3 | |||
| Equity | 157.7 | -104.5 | 262.2 | 177.5 | -148.6 | 326.1 | 10.1 | -6.7 | 16.7 | 21.0 | -8.0 | 29.0 | |||
| Debt instruments | 38.5 | -270.8 | 309.3 | 36.6 | -338.6 | 375.2 | 12.4 | -42.1 | 54.5 | 24.1 | -38.2 | 62.3 | |||
| Bonds and notes | -1.3 | -259.3 | 258.0 | 77.2 | -286.6 | 363.9 | 8.6 | -37.0 | 45.6 | 16.6 | -34.8 | 51.4 | |||
| Money market instruments | 39.8 | -11.5 | 51.3 | -40.6 | -51.9 | 11.4 | 3.8 | -5.1 | 8.9 | 7.5 | -3.5 | 10.9 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 15.8 | -633.2 | 649.0 | 80.7 | -787.7 | 868.3 | 7.2 | -68.9 | 76.0 | 33.5 | -57.9 | 91.4 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -9.6 | -5.0 | 6.9 | -4.3 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 50.5 | -635.0 | 685.5 | 29.7 | -672.1 | 701.8 | -18.4 | -109.8 | 91.4 | -46.0 | -155.3 | 109.3 | |||
| Eurosystem | 11.0 | 0.4 | 10.6 | 12.2 | -2.0 | 14.2 | -1.2 | -0.3 | -0.9 | 3.8 | 0.6 | 3.2 | |||
| General government | 5.7 | 7.7 | -2.0 | -0.4 | 1.2 | -1.6 | -4.4 | -2.2 | -2.2 | -2.4 | -3.9 | 1.6 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 1.9 | 1.9 | -10.3 | -10.3 | -3.8 | -3.8 | -4.4 | -4.4 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 72.1 | -474.8 | 546.9 | -14.9 | -442.8 | 427.9 | -16.6 | -84.3 | 67.7 | -42.1 | -116.0 | 73.9 | |||
| long-term | -33.4 | -73.9 | 40.5 | -89.8 | -156.8 | 67.0 | -50.1 | -47.9 | -2.2 | -2.3 | -14.3 | 12.0 | |||
| short-term | 105.5 | -400.9 | 506.4 | 74.9 | -286.0 | 360.9 | 33.4 | -36.5 | 69.9 | -39.8 | -101.6 | 61.9 | |||
| Other sectors | -38.3 | -168.3 | 130.0 | 32.7 | -228.5 | 261.3 | 3.8 | -22.9 | 26.7 | -5.3 | -36.0 | 30.7 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -8.1 | -8.1 | 21.1 | 21.1 | 2.2 | 2.2 | -7.6 | -7.6 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 12.2 | 12.2 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -0.8 | -0.8 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -86.3 | -97.5 | 2.3 | 15.1 | |||||||||||