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 | December 2006 (revised) | January 2007 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2006 | January 2007 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | -13.0 | 2,059.7 | 2,072.7 | -13.9 | 2,338.5 | 2,352.4 | 4.5 | 212.0 | 207.5 | -6.0 | 192.7 | 198.7 | |||
| Goods | 40.0 | 1,234.4 | 1,194.4 | 30.1 | 1,396.5 | 1,366.3 | 3.3 | 117.0 | 113.7 | -3.7 | 114.0 | 117.7 | |||
| Services | 36.2 | 403.8 | 367.6 | 36.1 | 429.4 | 393.3 | 2.8 | 37.7 | 34.9 | -0.1 | 33.3 | 33.5 | |||
| Income | -20.6 | 344.2 | 364.9 | -9.2 | 427.9 | 437.2 | 3.0 | 47.2 | 44.2 | -1.0 | 36.0 | 37.0 | |||
| Current transfers | -68.5 | 77.3 | 145.9 | -70.9 | 84.7 | 155.6 | -4.5 | 10.1 | 14.7 | -1.2 | 9.4 | 10.6 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 13.6 | 23.9 | 10.3 | 12.4 | 24.4 | 12.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 1.0 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 23.0 | 163.2 | -37.3 | 53.2 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -190.0 | -280.7 | 90.7 | -148.0 | -308.4 | 160.4 | -28.3 | -36.8 | 8.6 | -5.0 | -17.1 | 12.1 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | -156.8 | -217.0 | 60.3 | -151.4 | -266.6 | 115.3 | -19.9 | -26.3 | 6.4 | -16.8 | -18.8 | 1.9 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -33.2 | -63.7 | 30.4 | 3.3 | -41.8 | 45.1 | -8.3 | -10.5 | 2.1 | 11.8 | 1.7 | 10.2 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 132.7 | -434.4 | 567.2 | 326.5 | -449.9 | 776.4 | 35.8 | -17.1 | 53.0 | 39.0 | -62.5 | 101.5 | |||
| Equity | 142.2 | -162.2 | 304.4 | 218.0 | -93.8 | 311.9 | 28.9 | -4.0 | 32.9 | 34.4 | -9.6 | 44.0 | |||
| Debt instruments | -9.5 | -272.2 | 262.7 | 108.5 | -356.0 | 464.5 | 7.0 | -13.1 | 20.1 | 4.6 | -52.9 | 57.5 | |||
| Bonds and notes | -28.9 | -264.7 | 235.8 | 164.8 | -295.2 | 460.0 | 46.6 | -8.4 | 55.0 | -4.1 | -42.7 | 38.6 | |||
| Money market instruments | 19.4 | -7.6 | 27.0 | -56.2 | -60.8 | 4.6 | -39.6 | -4.7 | -34.9 | 8.7 | -10.2 | 18.9 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | -57.3 | -715.1 | 657.9 | 178.5 | -758.3 | 936.8 | 7.6 | -53.9 | 61.5 | 34.0 | -79.6 | 113.6 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | -9.9 | -8.0 | -4.8 | -5.2 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | 72.8 | -620.3 | 693.1 | -2.9 | -810.1 | 807.2 | -35.6 | -30.1 | -5.5 | 27.4 | -142.1 | 169.5 | |||
| Eurosystem | 8.6 | -1.5 | 10.1 | 15.7 | -3.6 | 19.4 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 2.5 | 4.2 | -1.5 | 5.7 | |||
| General government | -0.8 | 6.7 | -7.4 | -2.3 | 0.5 | -2.8 | -1.9 | 0.7 | -2.6 | -4.1 | 1.0 | -5.0 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 1.1 | 1.1 | -3.8 | -3.8 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 1.3 | 1.3 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 73.7 | -434.2 | 508.0 | -42.3 | -567.7 | 525.4 | -71.1 | -34.8 | -36.3 | 53.0 | -91.7 | 144.7 | |||
| long-term | -39.0 | -80.3 | 41.3 | -123.0 | -184.6 | 61.7 | -42.9 | -28.7 | -14.2 | -17.7 | -27.1 | 9.4 | |||
| short-term | 112.8 | -353.9 | 466.7 | 80.7 | -383.0 | 463.7 | -28.2 | -6.0 | -22.2 | 70.7 | -64.6 | 135.3 | |||
| Other sectors | -8.7 | -191.2 | 182.5 | 25.9 | -239.3 | 265.2 | 34.8 | 3.8 | 30.9 | -25.7 | -49.8 | 24.1 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -4.4 | -4.4 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 13.8 | 13.8 | -30.8 | -30.8 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | 17.3 | 17.3 | -4.4 | -4.4 | -4.4 | -4.4 | -3.1 | -3.1 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | -23.6 | -161.7 | 28.7 | -49.7 | |||||||||||