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 | January 2008 (revised) | February 2008 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2007 | February 2008 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 0.2 | 2,443.2 | 2,443.1 | 19.1 | 2,679.6 | 2,660.5 | -17.9 | 213.4 | 231.3 | 5.0 | 230.8 | 225.8 | |||
| Goods | 24.8 | 1,413.2 | 1,388.4 | 52.8 | 1,529.3 | 1,476.5 | -7.3 | 124.7 | 131.9 | 2.9 | 131.4 | 128.5 | |||
| Services | 42.2 | 443.5 | 401.3 | 52.9 | 498.2 | 445.3 | 2.6 | 37.5 | 34.9 | 3.6 | 37.7 | 34.0 | |||
| Income | 11.2 | 495.2 | 484.0 | -1.2 | 561.2 | 562.4 | -3.2 | 44.3 | 47.4 | 3.3 | 46.2 | 42.9 | |||
| Current transfers | -78.0 | 91.3 | 169.3 | -85.3 | 90.9 | 176.2 | -10.1 | 7.0 | 17.1 | -4.9 | 15.5 | 20.4 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 11.6 | 25.8 | 14.1 | 15.4 | 26.7 | 11.3 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 1.0 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 0.7 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 150.6 | 63.8 | 27.3 | -9.9 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -120.2 | -348.8 | 228.6 | -126.7 | -411.7 | 285.1 | -29.9 | -46.0 | 16.0 | -13.8 | -27.3 | 13.5 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -88.6 | -270.0 | 178.6 | -129.4 | -317.9 | 188.3 | -26.4 | -33.3 | 6.9 | -11.8 | -16.5 | 4.8 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -28.2 | -78.8 | 50.0 | 3.6 | -93.8 | 96.7 | -3.5 | -12.6 | 9.1 | -2.1 | -10.8 | 8.7 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 351.4 | -519.3 | 870.7 | 272.2 | -331.9 | 604.1 | 49.3 | -14.9 | 64.2 | 34.8 | -17.1 | 51.9 | |||
| Equity | 192.9 | -116.6 | 309.5 | 220.7 | 22.2 | 198.5 | 55.7 | 19.2 | 36.5 | 44.7 | 16.3 | 28.4 | |||
| Debt instruments | 158.5 | -402.7 | 561.2 | 51.5 | -354.0 | 405.6 | -6.4 | -34.1 | 27.7 | -9.9 | -33.4 | 23.4 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 239.1 | -317.2 | 556.3 | 90.2 | -276.4 | 366.6 | 28.3 | 3.4 | 24.9 | -1.0 | -20.1 | 19.1 | |||
| Money market instruments | -80.6 | -85.5 | 4.9 | -38.7 | -77.7 | 39.0 | -34.7 | -37.5 | 2.8 | -8.9 | -13.3 | 4.3 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 231.2 | -868.0 | 1,099.2 | 145.5 | -743.6 | 889.1 | 19.4 | -60.8 | 80.2 | 21.0 | -44.4 | 65.4 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -5.1 | -109.1 | -13.0 | 2.4 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -71.2 | -844.4 | 773.2 | 31.4 | -895.5 | 926.9 | 27.7 | -201.4 | 229.0 | -38.0 | -80.3 | 42.3 | |||
| Eurosystem | 12.9 | -3.7 | 16.6 | 21.8 | -8.9 | 30.7 | 4.7 | -2.3 | 6.9 | -13.5 | -0.6 | -12.9 | |||
| General government | 5.2 | 1.9 | 3.2 | 7.7 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 7.6 | 3.6 | 4.0 | -4.8 | -1.0 | -3.7 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -3.6 | -3.6 | -1.1 | -1.1 | 3.8 | 3.8 | -4.1 | -4.1 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -60.7 | -639.2 | 578.5 | 80.6 | -618.4 | 699.0 | 14.1 | -186.2 | 200.3 | 32.9 | -62.0 | 94.9 | |||
| long-term | -77.0 | -174.8 | 97.8 | -127.7 | -213.7 | 86.1 | -25.3 | -25.3 | -0.1 | -8.2 | -16.6 | 8.4 | |||
| short-term | 16.2 | -464.5 | 480.7 | 208.2 | -404.7 | 613.0 | 39.4 | -161.0 | 200.3 | 41.2 | -45.4 | 86.6 | |||
| Other sectors | -28.5 | -203.4 | 174.9 | -78.6 | -271.6 | 193.0 | 1.3 | -16.5 | 17.8 | -52.7 | -16.6 | -36.1 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -38.2 | -38.2 | 16.8 | 16.8 | -10.6 | -10.6 | 5.5 | 5.5 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -4.4 | -4.4 | -3.9 | -3.9 | -6.8 | -6.8 | 4.7 | 4.7 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -162.4 | -98.4 | -11.7 | 2.6 | |||||||||||