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 | February 2015 (revised) | March 2015 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2014 | March 2015 | ||||||||||||||
| Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | ||||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
| 1) Financial account: increases in assets and liabilities (+) and decreases in assets and liabilities (-). | |||||||||||||||
| CURRENTACCOUNT | 186.8 | 3,284.3 | 3,097.5 | 236.7 | 3,354.5 | 3,117.8 | 14.7 | 266.4 | 251.7 | 24.9 | 296.3 | 271.4 | |||
| Goods | 213.6 | 1,924.7 | 1,711.1 | 267.4 | 1,977.1 | 1,709.6 | 26.0 | 160.2 | 134.2 | 28.5 | 180.4 | 151.8 | |||
| Services | 70.6 | 656.0 | 585.4 | 61.6 | 698.3 | 636.7 | 2.2 | 51.5 | 49.3 | 3.8 | 57.8 | 54.0 | |||
| Primary income | 46.1 | 613.9 | 567.8 | 50.6 | 584.5 | 533.9 | 10.1 | 46.6 | 36.6 | 5.7 | 49.8 | 44.1 | |||
| Secondary income | -143.5 | 89.7 | 233.2 | -142.9 | 94.7 | 237.6 | -23.6 | 8.0 | 31.6 | -13.2 | 8.4 | 21.5 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 27.3 | 44.1 | 16.8 | 19.0 | 34.7 | 15.7 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 3.8 | 1.9 | |||
| Net | Assets | Liabilities | Net | Assets | Liabilities | Net | Assets | Liabilities | Net | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 440.4 | 968.6 | 528.2 | 235.8 | 808.2 | 572.4 | 17.4 | 79.5 | 62.1 | -5.2 | -18.0 | -12.7 | |||
| Direct investment | 5.4 | 528.9 | 523.5 | -14.4 | 158.7 | 173.1 | 1.7 | 34.8 | 33.1 | -44.9 | -21.6 | 23.3 | |||
| Equity | 17.6 | 435.7 | 418.1 | -107.4 | 32.8 | 140.2 | 5.8 | 20.8 | 15.0 | -46.2 | -36.5 | 9.7 | |||
| Debt instruments | -12.2 | 93.2 | 105.4 | 93.0 | 125.9 | 32.9 | -4.0 | 14.0 | 18.1 | 1.3 | 14.8 | 13.5 | |||
| Portfolio investment | -66.0 | 229.3 | 295.2 | 134.5 | 438.7 | 304.2 | 7.7 | 44.7 | 37.0 | 2.7 | 18.0 | 15.3 | |||
| Equity | -49.4 | 125.4 | 174.8 | -218.6 | 78.8 | 297.4 | -30.6 | 1.6 | 32.2 | -39.4 | -25.1 | 14.3 | |||
| Debt securities | -16.5 | 103.9 | 120.4 | 353.1 | 359.9 | 6.8 | 38.3 | 43.1 | 4.8 | 42.1 | 43.1 | 1.0 | |||
| Short-term | 23.3 | 4.1 | -19.2 | 46.6 | 44.4 | -2.2 | 3.1 | 0.1 | -3.0 | -19.7 | 4.0 | 23.7 | |||
| Long-term | -39.8 | 99.8 | 139.6 | 306.5 | 315.5 | 8.9 | 35.2 | 43.0 | 7.8 | 61.8 | 39.1 | -22.7 | |||
| Memo: Direct and portfolio investment | -60.6 | 758.2 | 818.7 | 120.1 | 597.4 | 477.3 | 9.4 | 79.5 | 70.1 | -42.1 | -3.6 | 38.6 | |||
| Financial derivatives | 34.5 | 75.9 | 9.7 | 10.4 | |||||||||||
| Other investment | 459.3 | 168.8 | -290.5 | 32.8 | 127.9 | 95.1 | -5.8 | -13.8 | -8.0 | 26.1 | -25.2 | -51.3 | |||
| Eurosystem | 58.9 | -20.7 | -79.6 | 28.7 | 3.4 | -25.2 | 23.0 | 3.1 | -19.9 | 22.8 | 2.6 | -20.2 | |||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 312.1 | 64.3 | -247.8 | 34.5 | 109.2 | 74.7 | -42.1 | -32.0 | 10.1 | -16.5 | -62.2 | -45.7 | |||
| General government | -3.9 | -2.5 | 1.3 | 33.1 | 5.8 | -27.2 | -2.1 | -4.8 | -2.8 | 19.9 | 3.4 | -16.5 | |||
| Other sectors | 92.1 | 127.7 | 35.6 | -63.5 | 9.4 | 72.8 | 15.3 | 19.9 | 4.6 | -0.1 | 31.0 | 31.1 | |||
| Of which: currency and deposits | 427.7 | 109.7 | -318.1 | -38.5 | 44.2 | 82.7 | 10.7 | -4.2 | -14.9 | -4.2 | -61.0 | -56.8 | |||
| Reserve assets | 7.1 | 7.0 | 4.2 | 0.4 | |||||||||||
| Errors and omissions | 226.3 | -19.9 | 2.4 | -32.0 | |||||||||||