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 | November 2012 (revised) | December 2012 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2011 | December 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 | 12.5 | 2,975.0 | 2,962.5 | 110.8 | 3,128.2 | 3,017.4 | 20.8 | 263.6 | 242.8 | 27.0 | 268.2 | 241.1 | |||
| Goods | 9.2 | 1,775.5 | 1,766.2 | 104.2 | 1,912.2 | 1,807.9 | 16.7 | 168.0 | 151.3 | 13.0 | 148.5 | 135.4 | |||
| Services | 67.2 | 576.6 | 509.4 | 89.6 | 615.2 | 525.6 | 5.7 | 50.2 | 44.5 | 9.4 | 55.6 | 46.2 | |||
| Income | 43.0 | 528.4 | 485.4 | 28.2 | 506.5 | 478.2 | 4.5 | 36.8 | 32.4 | 5.8 | 48.0 | 42.2 | |||
| Current transfers | -106.9 | 94.5 | 201.4 | -111.2 | 94.4 | 205.6 | -6.0 | 8.6 | 14.7 | -1.2 | 16.1 | 17.3 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 11.5 | 25.0 | 13.5 | 11.2 | 25.5 | 14.3 | 1.6 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 3.1 | 2.0 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -45.3 | -153.5 | -22.7 | -47.0 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -154.8 | -408.0 | 253.1 | -50.9 | -212.7 | 161.8 | 13.7 | 6.1 | 7.7 | -8.6 | 4.5 | -13.1 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -68.8 | -352.1 | 283.3 | -15.9 | -172.9 | 156.9 | 9.1 | 2.3 | 6.8 | 8.9 | 6.7 | 2.2 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -86.0 | -55.8 | -30.2 | -35.0 | -39.8 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 0.8 | -17.5 | -2.2 | -15.3 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 274.0 | 51.9 | 222.1 | 64.1 | -190.0 | 254.1 | 16.5 | -36.7 | 53.2 | -12.1 | -45.6 | 33.4 | |||
| Equity | 170.7 | 71.0 | 99.7 | 82.4 | -46.8 | 129.2 | 13.0 | 0.1 | 12.8 | -10.1 | -39.5 | 29.4 | |||
| Debt instruments | 103.3 | -19.1 | 122.4 | -18.3 | -143.3 | 125.0 | 3.6 | -36.9 | 40.4 | -2.0 | -6.0 | 4.0 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 177.7 | 11.5 | 166.2 | 28.0 | -112.4 | 140.4 | 26.5 | -17.6 | 44.1 | -3.0 | -6.2 | 3.2 | |||
| Money market instruments | -74.5 | -30.6 | -43.8 | -46.3 | -30.8 | -15.4 | -22.9 | -19.3 | -3.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 119.2 | -356.1 | 475.2 | 13.2 | -402.7 | 415.9 | 30.3 | -30.6 | 60.9 | -20.7 | -41.1 | 20.3 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -4.9 | 0.0 | 10.5 | 1.9 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -149.5 | -164.2 | 14.7 | -152.8 | -8.1 | -144.7 | -62.4 | 8.7 | -71.1 | -28.9 | 131.5 | -160.4 | |||
| Eurosystem | 137.3 | 2.7 | 134.6 | 12.0 | -10.7 | 22.7 | 4.1 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 7.2 | -3.1 | 10.3 | |||
| General government | 72.9 | -1.2 | 74.1 | 0.8 | -4.0 | 4.9 | -3.4 | -6.6 | 3.3 | -13.6 | -1.8 | -11.8 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -10.3 | -10.3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | -4.2 | -4.2 | -0.5 | -0.5 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -338.6 | -49.7 | -288.9 | -105.0 | 117.5 | -222.5 | -51.6 | 19.1 | -70.6 | -24.8 | 102.5 | -127.3 | |||
| Long-term | -17.2 | -27.9 | 10.7 | 14.3 | 33.8 | -19.5 | 1.8 | 3.2 | -1.4 | 12.3 | 11.6 | 0.7 | |||
| Short-term | -321.4 | -21.8 | -299.7 | -119.3 | 83.7 | -203.0 | -53.3 | 15.9 | -69.2 | -37.1 | 90.9 | -128.0 | |||
| Other sectors | -21.0 | -116.0 | 94.9 | -60.6 | -110.8 | 50.3 | -11.5 | -5.9 | -5.6 | 2.4 | 33.9 | -31.6 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -49.3 | -49.3 | -54.6 | -54.6 | -3.0 | -3.0 | 14.7 | 14.7 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -10.2 | -10.2 | -13.9 | -13.9 | -1.0 | -1.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 21.4 | 31.5 | 0.2 | 18.8 | |||||||||||