Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area
(EUR billions; transactions, non−seasonally adjusted data)
| Twelve-month cumulated figures ending | December 2005 (revised) | January 2006 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2005 | January 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 | 38.3 | 1,850.0 | 1,811.7 | -33.5 | 2,009.1 | 2,042.5 | 0.7 | 185.9 | 185.1 | -11.3 | 163.7 | 174.9 | |||
| Goods | 102.9 | 1,138.4 | 1,035.5 | 50.3 | 1,236.5 | 1,186.2 | 2.5 | 108.3 | 105.8 | -6.8 | 100.9 | 107.8 | |||
| Services | 29.3 | 363.1 | 333.8 | 31.0 | 388.4 | 357.3 | 3.5 | 34.1 | 30.6 | -0.3 | 29.8 | 30.0 | |||
| Income | -32.4 | 267.5 | 299.9 | -49.6 | 310.0 | 359.6 | 1.0 | 34.5 | 33.5 | -1.7 | 23.4 | 25.1 | |||
| Current transfers | -61.5 | 81.0 | 142.5 | -65.2 | 74.2 | 139.5 | -6.3 | 9.0 | 15.3 | -2.5 | 9.6 | 12.0 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 16.3 | 24.8 | 8.5 | 14.0 | 22.3 | 8.4 | 2.5 | 3.7 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 0.7 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 22.1 | 13.7 | -36.2 | -12.3 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -48.2 | -135.3 | 87.1 | -138.2 | -191.2 | 53.0 | -5.3 | -15.1 | 9.9 | 5.1 | 1.8 | 3.3 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -69.5 | -143.6 | 74.1 | -95.2 | -110.6 | 15.4 | -11.6 | -12.2 | 0.6 | 12.1 | 6.5 | 5.6 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | 21.3 | 8.3 | 13.0 | -43.0 | -80.6 | 37.6 | 6.4 | -2.9 | 9.3 | -7.0 | -4.7 | -2.3 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 51.3 | -335.2 | 386.5 | 123.9 | -433.8 | 557.7 | -13.8 | -35.7 | 22.0 | -38.2 | -66.6 | 28.4 | |||
| Equity | 39.2 | -106.6 | 145.8 | 143.0 | -138.5 | 281.4 | 31.8 | -20.4 | 52.3 | -8.2 | -28.9 | 20.7 | |||
| Debt instruments | 12.1 | -228.6 | 240.7 | -19.1 | -295.4 | 276.3 | -45.6 | -15.3 | -30.3 | -29.9 | -37.7 | 7.8 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 39.3 | -184.1 | 223.4 | -56.5 | -287.6 | 231.1 | -18.0 | -11.3 | -6.8 | -38.6 | -33.9 | -4.7 | |||
| Money market instruments | -27.2 | -44.5 | 17.2 | 37.4 | -7.7 | 45.1 | -27.5 | -4.0 | -23.5 | 8.7 | -3.8 | 12.5 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 3.1 | -470.4 | 473.5 | -14.4 | -625.1 | 610.7 | -19.0 | -50.9 | 31.9 | -33.1 | -64.8 | 31.7 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -11.0 | -14.6 | -2.8 | -2.1 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 16.0 | -293.4 | 309.5 | 24.5 | -603.3 | 627.8 | -21.7 | 66.9 | -88.6 | 25.3 | -104.0 | 129.3 | |||
| Eurosystem | 9.4 | 0.9 | 8.5 | 8.1 | -1.9 | 10.0 | -4.1 | 0.0 | -4.1 | 7.8 | -0.2 | 8.0 | |||
| General government | 3.9 | -0.7 | 4.6 | -2.6 | 4.6 | -7.2 | -4.8 | -0.7 | -4.1 | -1.2 | 1.2 | -2.4 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -1.9 | -1.9 | -0.1 | -0.1 | -2.3 | -2.3 | 1.8 | 1.8 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 34.0 | -231.8 | 265.8 | 72.1 | -422.7 | 494.8 | -27.8 | 87.5 | -115.3 | 46.2 | -71.2 | 117.4 | |||
| long-term | -35.5 | -42.5 | 7.0 | -53.3 | -83.4 | 30.0 | -33.5 | -32.7 | -0.9 | 7.2 | 9.1 | -1.9 | |||
| short-term | 69.5 | -189.4 | 258.9 | 125.4 | -339.4 | 464.7 | 5.7 | 120.2 | -114.4 | 39.0 | -80.3 | 119.4 | |||
| Other sectors | -31.3 | -61.8 | 30.5 | -53.0 | -183.3 | 130.2 | 15.0 | -19.9 | 34.9 | -27.6 | -33.8 | 6.2 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -25.1 | -25.1 | -42.1 | -42.1 | -8.7 | -8.7 | -18.0 | -18.0 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 14.0 | 14.0 | 18.2 | 18.2 | 7.4 | 7.4 | -2.3 | -2.3 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -76.7 | 5.8 | 32.9 | 22.5 | |||||||||||