Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area ( 1 )
(EUR billions; non−seasonally adjusted data)
| April 2005 | March 2005 (revised) | Monthly average, previous six months | 12-month cumulated figures ending | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2004 - March 2005 | April 2005 | April 2004 | |||||||||||||
| Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | |
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
| ( 1 ) Figures may not add up due to rounding. | |||||||||||||||
| ( 2 ) Financial account: inflows (+); outflows (−). Reserve assets: increase (−); decrease (+). | |||||||||||||||
| ( 3 ) Direct investment: assets refer to direct investment abroad and liabilities to direct investment in the euro area. | |||||||||||||||
| CURRENTACCOUNT | 159.1 | 170.7 | -11.6 | 160.1 | 156.7 | 3.4 | 156.2 | 153.0 | 3.2 | 1854.6 | 1830.4 | 24.2 | 1706.0 | 1666.9 | 39.1 |
| Goods | 98.4 | 95.0 | 3.4 | 101.3 | 92.9 | 8.4 | 96.4 | 90.5 | 5.9 | 1148.1 | 1063.9 | 84.2 | 1059.6 | 941.4 | 118.1 |
| Services | 28.3 | 26.6 | 1.7 | 27.8 | 27.2 | 0.6 | 28.6 | 27.2 | 1.4 | 357.9 | 330.7 | 27.1 | 333.0 | 312.6 | 20.4 |
| Income | 26.8 | 39.4 | -12.5 | 24.1 | 25.7 | -1.6 | 22.7 | 23.0 | -0.2 | 267.1 | 296.1 | -29.0 | 232.8 | 275.5 | -42.7 |
| Current transfers | 5.5 | 9.7 | -4.2 | 6.8 | 10.9 | -4.0 | 8.4 | 12.3 | -3.9 | 81.6 | 139.7 | -58.1 | 80.5 | 137.3 | -56.7 |
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 22.4 | 8.0 | 14.4 | 23.6 | 6.9 | 16.7 |
| Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | |
| FINANCIALACCOUNT2) | -12.2 | -12.3 | 6.7 | 57.8 | -56.9 | ||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT3) | -12.3 | 5.9 | -6.4 | -14.3 | 5.3 | -9.0 | -12.7 | 6.2 | -6.5 | -117.4 | 62.9 | -54.5 | -118.5 | 85.8 | -32.7 |
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | 1.9 | 7.5 | 9.4 | -5.2 | 3.5 | -1.7 | -10.9 | 6.3 | -4.6 | -108.1 | 65.0 | -43.1 | -100.4 | 97.2 | -3.2 |
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -14.2 | -1.6 | -15.8 | -9.0 | 1.8 | -7.3 | -1.8 | -0.1 | -2.0 | -9.3 | -2.1 | -11.4 | -18.1 | -11.4 | -29.5 |
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -26.5 | 23.7 | -2.8 | -39.0 | 34.5 | -4.5 | -31.0 | 34.9 | 3.9 | -304.2 | 364.7 | 60.5 | -328.7 | 323.6 | -5.1 |
| Equity | 8.4 | -38.9 | -30.5 | -10.1 | 19.8 | 9.7 | -11.0 | 17.4 | 6.4 | -81.6 | 119.6 | 38.0 | -94.1 | 92.1 | -2.0 |
| Debt instruments | -34.9 | 62.6 | 27.7 | -28.9 | 14.7 | -14.2 | -20.1 | 17.5 | -2.5 | -222.6 | 245.1 | 22.5 | -234.6 | 231.5 | -3.1 |
| Bonds and notes | -24.8 | 58.0 | 33.2 | -23.1 | 2.0 | -21.1 | -18.8 | 12.7 | -6.1 | -194.8 | 220.7 | 25.9 | -167.4 | 205.9 | 38.5 |
| Money market instruments | -10.1 | 4.7 | -5.4 | -5.7 | 12.6 | 6.9 | -1.3 | 4.8 | 3.5 | -27.9 | 24.4 | -3.5 | -67.2 | 25.6 | -41.6 |
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -38.8 | 29.7 | -9.1 | -53.2 | 39.8 | -13.5 | -43.7 | 41.1 | -2.7 | -421.6 | 427.6 | 6.0 | -447.2 | 409.4 | -37.8 |
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -1.0 | -5.5 | -2.5 | -15.3 | -4.2 | ||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -118.3 | 117.0 | -1.3 | -51.9 | 57.1 | 5.3 | -39.6 | 50.1 | 10.6 | -341.3 | 398.5 | 57.2 | -294.1 | 255.7 | -38.3 |
| Eurosystem | 0.1 | -0.0 | 0.1 | -0.0 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 12.6 | 14.1 | -0.3 | 8.4 | 8.1 |
| General government | -5.7 | -4.0 | -9.7 | 5.8 | 2.2 | 8.0 | 1.1 | -0.2 | 0.9 | -2.5 | 0.4 | -2.1 | -2.0 | -4.8 | -6.8 |
| of which: currency and deposits | -5.7 | -5.7 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 1.2 | 1.2 | -2.4 | -2.4 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -97.7 | 92.2 | -5.5 | -33.8 | 41.6 | 7.8 | -33.4 | 43.1 | 9.7 | -277.2 | 325.2 | 48.0 | -262.1 | 230.9 | -31.2 |
| long-term | -10.4 | 0.2 | -10.2 | -4.4 | -7.9 | -12.3 | -4.9 | 1.8 | -3.1 | -43.6 | 11.4 | -32.2 | -52.8 | 38.2 | -14.6 |
| short-term | -87.3 | 92.0 | 4.7 | -29.4 | 49.5 | 20.1 | -28.5 | 41.3 | 12.8 | -233.6 | 313.8 | 80.2 | -209.3 | 192.7 | -16.6 |
| Other sectors | -15.1 | 28.8 | 13.7 | -23.8 | 9.1 | -14.7 | -7.7 | 5.8 | -1.8 | -63.1 | 60.3 | -2.8 | -29.7 | 21.3 | -8.4 |
| of which: currency and deposits | 10.7 | 10.7 | -5.7 | -5.7 | -1.1 | -1.1 | 1.7 | 1.7 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -0.8 | -0.8 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 9.9 | 9.9 | 23.5 | 23.5 | |||||
| Errors and omissions | 23.5 | 8.2 | -11.0 | -96.3 | 1.2 | ||||||||||