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 | December 2011 (revised) | January 2012 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2011 | January 2012 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | -48.6 | 2,647.4 | 2,696.0 | -21.8 | 2,908.0 | 2,929.8 | 18.3 | 266.3 | 248.0 | -12.3 | 234.5 | 246.7 | |||
| Goods | 6.9 | 1,586.8 | 1,579.9 | 9.7 | 1,785.6 | 1,775.9 | 9.5 | 151.7 | 142.2 | -10.1 | 142.3 | 152.4 | |||
| Services | 47.3 | 523.2 | 475.9 | 59.3 | 542.8 | 483.6 | 6.1 | 50.0 | 43.9 | 1.6 | 41.0 | 39.4 | |||
| Income | 0.8 | 451.3 | 450.5 | 12.6 | 489.5 | 476.9 | 4.7 | 49.7 | 45.0 | 3.5 | 41.6 | 38.0 | |||
| Current transfers | -103.6 | 86.1 | 189.7 | -103.4 | 90.1 | 193.4 | -2.1 | 14.9 | 16.9 | -7.3 | 9.6 | 16.9 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 4.4 | 20.0 | 15.5 | 9.6 | 23.1 | 13.5 | 1.4 | 3.9 | 2.5 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 0.9 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 46.4 | 9.2 | -22.2 | 12.6 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -31.3 | -190.5 | 159.2 | -89.1 | -232.3 | 143.2 | -0.1 | -20.8 | 20.7 | -6.2 | -23.6 | 17.3 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | 103.8 | -77.7 | 182.2 | -33.8 | -193.9 | 160.0 | -5.5 | -15.8 | 10.3 | -3.1 | -26.7 | 23.6 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -135.5 | -112.8 | -23.0 | -55.3 | -38.4 | -16.8 | 5.4 | -5.0 | 10.5 | -3.1 | 3.2 | -6.2 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 86.0 | -163.9 | 249.9 | 278.0 | 76.7 | 201.3 | 4.6 | -3.1 | 7.7 | -46.9 | -28.7 | -18.2 | |||
| Equity | 81.6 | -63.4 | 145.0 | 86.9 | 57.9 | 29.0 | 17.4 | 6.1 | 11.4 | 5.0 | -3.7 | 8.7 | |||
| Debt instruments | 4.4 | -100.5 | 104.9 | 191.2 | 18.8 | 172.3 | -12.9 | -9.2 | -3.7 | -51.9 | -25.0 | -26.9 | |||
| Bonds and notes | -7.7 | -115.6 | 107.9 | 175.8 | 12.0 | 163.8 | 20.2 | 3.0 | 17.2 | -54.2 | -20.0 | -34.2 | |||
| Money market instruments | 12.1 | 15.1 | -3.0 | 15.3 | 6.9 | 8.5 | -33.1 | -12.2 | -20.9 | 2.3 | -5.0 | 7.3 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 54.7 | -354.4 | 409.1 | 188.9 | -155.6 | 344.5 | 4.5 | -23.9 | 28.4 | -53.1 | -52.3 | -0.9 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 13.5 | -25.6 | -7.1 | -3.2 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -3.9 | -188.5 | 184.6 | -149.6 | -97.5 | -52.2 | -14.2 | 73.0 | -87.2 | 69.5 | -10.3 | 79.8 | |||
| Eurosystem | 20.1 | -2.8 | 22.8 | 96.2 | 2.1 | 94.1 | 102.5 | 1.9 | 100.6 | -37.6 | -1.8 | -35.8 | |||
| General government | 38.2 | -38.4 | 76.6 | 54.2 | -7.1 | 61.3 | 1.8 | -0.4 | 2.1 | 7.8 | 1.5 | 6.3 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -3.7 | -3.7 | -14.2 | -14.2 | 1.5 | 1.5 | -0.5 | -0.5 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -18.3 | -8.9 | -9.4 | -263.2 | 22.1 | -285.2 | -135.8 | 51.0 | -186.8 | 101.0 | -5.3 | 106.3 | |||
| Long-term | 50.5 | 32.1 | 18.5 | -14.6 | 0.2 | -14.8 | -16.3 | -9.0 | -7.2 | 18.6 | 1.6 | 17.0 | |||
| Short-term | -68.8 | -41.0 | -27.8 | -248.6 | 21.8 | -270.4 | -119.5 | 60.0 | -179.5 | 82.4 | -6.9 | 89.3 | |||
| Other sectors | -43.9 | -138.4 | 94.6 | -36.9 | -114.5 | 77.7 | 17.3 | 20.4 | -3.1 | -1.8 | -4.8 | 3.1 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -52.9 | -52.9 | -34.6 | -34.6 | 17.6 | 17.6 | 2.8 | 2.8 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -17.8 | -17.8 | -4.6 | -4.6 | -5.4 | -5.4 | -0.5 | -0.5 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -2.2 | 3.0 | 2.5 | -0.5 | |||||||||||