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 | July 2006 (revised) | August 2006 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2005 | August 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 | 13.4 | 1,945.0 | 1,931.7 | -36.4 | 2,223.7 | 2,260.1 | 2.5 | 190.7 | 188.2 | -3.9 | 187.9 | 191.8 | |||
| Goods | 70.4 | 1,177.8 | 1,107.4 | 15.8 | 1,331.0 | 1,315.2 | 5.6 | 116.0 | 110.4 | -3.8 | 107.3 | 111.0 | |||
| Services | 30.3 | 382.0 | 351.7 | 36.1 | 420.7 | 384.6 | 5.6 | 39.1 | 33.5 | -0.7 | 36.9 | 37.7 | |||
| Income | -26.1 | 301.6 | 327.7 | -18.3 | 387.8 | 406.0 | -1.8 | 31.0 | 32.8 | 7.3 | 37.8 | 30.5 | |||
| Current transfers | -61.2 | 83.7 | 144.9 | -70.0 | 84.2 | 154.2 | -7.0 | 4.6 | 11.6 | -6.7 | 5.9 | 12.6 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 13.7 | 22.9 | 9.1 | 10.7 | 24.1 | 13.3 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 0.6 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 73.7 | 134.6 | 12.3 | -3.9 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -156.6 | -251.7 | 95.1 | -76.6 | -234.8 | 158.2 | -9.4 | -13.1 | 3.7 | -2.8 | -1.8 | -1.1 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -135.9 | -216.3 | 80.5 | -62.0 | -183.9 | 121.9 | -8.2 | -11.6 | 3.4 | -4.4 | -7.5 | 3.1 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -20.7 | -35.4 | 14.7 | -14.6 | -50.9 | 36.3 | -1.2 | -1.4 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 5.8 | -4.2 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 248.1 | -372.3 | 620.4 | 84.2 | -448.6 | 532.8 | 1.0 | -40.0 | 41.0 | -15.5 | -23.4 | 7.9 | |||
| Equity | 206.4 | -88.3 | 294.7 | 118.7 | -159.1 | 277.8 | 39.6 | -6.0 | 45.5 | -12.6 | -9.8 | -2.8 | |||
| Debt instruments | 41.8 | -283.9 | 325.7 | -34.5 | -289.5 | 254.9 | -38.6 | -34.0 | -4.5 | -2.9 | -13.6 | 10.7 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 21.0 | -253.9 | 274.9 | -3.0 | -267.4 | 264.4 | -13.6 | -14.3 | 0.6 | -9.5 | -16.9 | 7.4 | |||
| Money market instruments | 20.8 | -30.0 | 50.8 | -31.5 | -22.1 | -9.5 | -24.9 | -19.8 | -5.2 | 6.7 | 3.3 | 3.3 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 91.6 | -624.0 | 715.6 | 7.5 | -683.4 | 691.0 | -8.4 | -53.1 | 44.7 | -18.3 | -25.2 | 6.8 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -7.0 | -22.3 | 1.8 | -3.9 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -23.1 | -484.0 | 460.8 | 137.9 | -583.8 | 721.7 | 19.6 | -53.7 | 73.3 | 19.1 | -2.0 | 21.1 | |||
| Eurosystem | 10.1 | 0.3 | 9.8 | 6.3 | -5.2 | 11.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.1 | -1.3 | -2.5 | 1.3 | |||
| General government | 6.2 | 6.0 | 0.2 | -0.4 | 3.7 | -4.2 | 8.9 | 7.0 | 1.8 | -0.0 | 0.5 | -0.5 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 2.3 | 2.3 | -1.9 | -1.9 | 6.9 | 6.9 | -0.1 | -0.1 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -9.4 | -355.8 | 346.4 | 133.3 | -371.9 | 505.2 | 21.6 | -42.9 | 64.5 | 26.4 | 7.9 | 18.5 | |||
| long-term | -8.9 | -54.4 | 45.4 | -60.9 | -117.4 | 56.5 | -5.5 | -13.1 | 7.6 | -1.9 | -7.7 | 5.8 | |||
| short-term | -0.5 | -301.5 | 301.0 | 194.2 | -254.5 | 448.7 | 27.1 | -29.8 | 56.9 | 28.3 | 15.7 | 12.6 | |||
| Other sectors | -30.0 | -134.5 | 104.5 | -1.2 | -210.4 | 209.2 | -11.6 | -18.6 | 7.0 | -6.0 | -7.9 | 1.8 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -17.3 | -17.3 | -2.3 | -2.3 | -2.8 | -2.8 | -5.4 | -5.4 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 12.3 | 12.3 | 11.4 | 11.4 | -0.8 | -0.8 | -0.8 | -0.8 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -100.8 | -108.9 | -15.4 | 6.8 | |||||||||||