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 | December 2013 (revised) | January 2014 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2013 | January 2014 | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | 128.7 | 3,190.3 | 3,061.6 | 223.5 | 3,203.8 | 2,980.3 | 28.2 | 275.2 | 247.0 | 6.4 | 253.9 | 247.6 | |||
| Goods | 97.8 | 1,928.0 | 1,830.2 | 174.0 | 1,937.9 | 1,763.8 | 13.2 | 154.0 | 140.7 | 1.0 | 152.3 | 151.3 | |||
| Services | 90.3 | 629.4 | 539.1 | 111.4 | 658.8 | 547.4 | 10.9 | 59.8 | 48.9 | 8.7 | 52.5 | 43.8 | |||
| Income | 50.6 | 533.4 | 482.8 | 61.6 | 510.3 | 448.7 | 9.5 | 45.8 | 36.3 | 6.7 | 38.6 | 31.9 | |||
| Current transfers | -110.1 | 99.5 | 209.6 | -123.5 | 96.9 | 220.4 | -5.4 | 15.7 | 21.1 | -10.0 | 10.5 | 20.5 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 14.4 | 29.6 | 15.2 | 19.0 | 29.8 | 10.8 | 2.4 | 4.1 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 0.7 | |||
| Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | Balance | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | -154.8 | -238.8 | -38.7 | -3.6 | |||||||||||
| DIRECTINVESTMENT2) | -29.1 | -323.2 | 294.1 | -99.6 | -186.0 | 86.4 | 14.6 | 0.6 | 14.0 | -4.7 | -18.9 | 14.2 | |||
| Equity capital and reinvested earnings | 33.5 | -189.7 | 223.5 | -61.0 | -114.9 | 54.5 | 3.3 | -4.4 | 7.8 | 0.4 | -13.0 | 13.3 | |||
| Other capital (mostly inter-company loans) | -63.1 | -133.5 | 70.5 | -39.0 | -71.1 | 31.9 | 11.2 | 5.0 | 6.2 | -5.0 | -5.9 | 0.9 | |||
| PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 153.5 | -182.4 | 336.0 | 138.8 | -210.4 | 349.3 | -4.2 | -12.7 | 8.4 | 16.9 | -17.3 | 34.1 | |||
| Equity | 83.7 | -71.7 | 155.4 | 127.4 | -125.4 | 252.7 | 34.8 | -7.0 | 41.8 | 4.4 | -6.8 | 11.2 | |||
| Debt instruments | 69.8 | -110.7 | 180.5 | 11.5 | -85.0 | 96.5 | -39.0 | -5.7 | -33.3 | 12.4 | -10.5 | 23.0 | |||
| Bonds and notes | 58.4 | -119.1 | 177.5 | 9.6 | -60.8 | 70.4 | 12.8 | 3.6 | 9.2 | -6.6 | -2.7 | -3.9 | |||
| Money market instruments | 11.4 | 8.4 | 3.0 | 1.9 | -24.2 | 26.1 | -51.8 | -9.3 | -42.5 | 19.1 | -7.8 | 26.9 | |||
| MEMO ITEM: COMBINED DIRECT AND PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT | 124.4 | -505.7 | 630.0 | 39.2 | -396.4 | 435.6 | 10.4 | -12.0 | 22.4 | 12.2 | -36.2 | 48.4 | |||
| FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES (NET) | 13.9 | 8.8 | 3.4 | -1.4 | |||||||||||
| OTHER INVESTMENT | -275.5 | -22.7 | -252.8 | -284.6 | 46.0 | -330.6 | -51.2 | 93.1 | -144.3 | -11.7 | -128.2 | 116.5 | |||
| Eurosystem | 37.0 | -1.3 | 38.3 | -45.0 | 21.9 | -66.9 | 0.4 | -1.0 | 1.4 | -3.2 | 3.3 | -6.5 | |||
| General government | -0.7 | 2.4 | -3.1 | -2.3 | 4.2 | -6.5 | -3.9 | 0.7 | -4.6 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 0.7 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | 7.8 | 7.8 | -4.1 | -4.1 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |||||||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | -239.2 | 70.6 | -309.8 | -261.1 | -11.6 | -249.6 | -53.9 | 96.7 | -150.7 | -21.6 | -134.0 | 112.4 | |||
| Long-term | -10.8 | 21.2 | -32.1 | 69.3 | 139.8 | -70.5 | 49.4 | 54.2 | -4.8 | 4.3 | 2.5 | 1.8 | |||
| Short-term | -228.4 | 49.3 | -277.7 | -330.4 | -151.4 | -179.0 | -103.4 | 42.5 | -145.9 | -25.9 | -136.6 | 110.6 | |||
| Other sectors | -72.6 | -94.4 | 21.8 | 23.8 | 31.4 | -7.6 | 6.2 | -3.3 | 9.5 | 10.1 | 0.3 | 9.9 | |||
| of which: currency and deposits | -47.9 | -47.9 | -13.3 | -13.3 | -9.8 | -9.8 | -6.8 | -6.8 | |||||||
| RESERVE ASSETS | -17.6 | -17.6 | -2.3 | -2.3 | -1.3 | -1.3 | -2.7 | -2.7 | |||||||
| Errors and omissions | 11.7 | -3.7 | 8.1 | -3.2 | |||||||||||