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 | September 2011 (revised) | October 2011 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2010 | October 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 | -28.0 | 2,552.2 | 2,580.2 | -59.7 | 2,834.6 | 2,894.3 | -0.7 | 245.7 | 246.4 | 1.7 | 244.5 | 242.7 | |||
| Goods | 22.8 | 1,510.2 | 1,487.4 | -12.8 | 1,735.9 | 1,748.8 | 2.8 | 154.2 | 151.4 | 1.4 | 152.7 | 151.4 | |||
| Services | 46.9 | 510.3 | 463.5 | 52.9 | 536.0 | 483.1 | 6.6 | 47.2 | 40.6 | 5.0 | 46.9 | 41.9 | |||
| Income | 3.5 | 442.0 | 438.4 | -0.5 | 470.0 | 470.5 | -0.1 | 38.8 | 39.0 | 3.0 | 37.2 | 34.2 | |||
| Current transfers | -101.2 | 89.7 | 191.0 | -99.2 | 92.7 | 191.9 | -10.0 | 5.4 | 15.4 | -7.6 | 7.6 | 15.3 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 4.5 | 20.6 | 16.1 | 9.7 | 22.6 | 13.0 | -0.1 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 1.0 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 21.9 | 45.8 | 1.6 | -9.0 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -140.5 | -258.8 | 118.3 | 35.3 | -178.4 | 213.7 | -7.5 | -18.6 | 11.1 | -7.4 | -17.0 | 9.6 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | 76.9 | -131.6 | 209.4 | 34.8 | -133.8 | 168.9 | -0.9 | -8.4 | 7.5 | -8.5 | -14.0 | 5.5 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -218.4 | -127.2 | -91.1 | 0.4 | -44.7 | 44.8 | -6.6 | -10.2 | 3.6 | 1.1 | -3.0 | 4.2 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 156.4 | -172.6 | 329.0 | 305.0 | 73.0 | 232.0 | 20.5 | 11.1 | 9.4 | -24.7 | 35.2 | -59.9 | |||
| Equity | 121.4 | -75.0 | 196.4 | 67.5 | 16.9 | 50.6 | 6.0 | 11.4 | -5.5 | -0.2 | 6.4 | -6.6 | |||
| Debt instruments | 35.0 | -97.6 | 132.6 | 237.5 | 56.1 | 181.4 | 14.5 | -0.3 | 14.9 | -24.5 | 28.8 | -53.3 | |||
| Bonds and notes | -63.8 | -161.4 | 97.6 | 217.8 | 55.5 | 162.3 | 17.9 | 20.2 | -2.3 | -28.4 | 11.8 | -40.2 | |||
| Money market instruments | 98.8 | 63.7 | 35.0 | 19.6 | 0.6 | 19.1 | -3.4 | -20.6 | 17.2 | 3.9 | 17.0 | -13.2 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 15.9 | -431.4 | 447.3 | 340.3 | -105.5 | 445.7 | 13.0 | -7.5 | 20.5 | -32.1 | 18.2 | -50.3 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 8.1 | 6.1 | 1.4 | -0.4 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 6.2 | -111.7 | 117.9 | -294.9 | -266.4 | -28.5 | -14.4 | -22.3 | 7.9 | 24.6 | 40.8 | -16.3 | |||
| Eurosystem | -5.8 | 7.7 | -13.5 | 43.6 | -12.7 | 56.3 | 11.9 | 3.3 | 8.6 | -6.0 | 1.4 | -7.4 | |||
| General government | -21.1 | -38.3 | 17.1 | 100.5 | -2.5 | 103.0 | 16.4 | -2.7 | 19.0 | -4.0 | -6.8 | 2.8 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -1.1 | -1.1 | -9.5 | -9.5 | -3.1 | -3.1 | -7.6 | -7.6 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 5.6 | -31.9 | 37.6 | -339.7 | -94.2 | -245.5 | -25.8 | -4.4 | -21.4 | 39.4 | 73.2 | -33.8 | |||
| Long-term | 50.3 | 26.8 | 23.5 | -12.9 | -6.7 | -6.2 | -3.7 | 2.6 | -6.3 | -20.1 | 13.8 | -33.9 | |||
| Short-term | -44.7 | -58.7 | 14.0 | -326.8 | -87.5 | -239.3 | -22.1 | -7.0 | -15.1 | 59.5 | 59.4 | 0.1 | |||
| Other sectors | 27.5 | -49.1 | 76.7 | -99.3 | -156.9 | 57.6 | -16.9 | -18.5 | 1.6 | -4.8 | -26.9 | 22.1 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -10.0 | -10.0 | -52.7 | -52.7 | -10.9 | -10.9 | -11.4 | -11.4 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -8.3 | -8.3 | -5.7 | -5.7 | 1.6 | 1.6 | -1.1 | -1.1 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 1.6 | 4.3 | -0.8 | 5.8 | |||||||||||