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 | January 2015 (revised) | February 2015 | |||||||||||||
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February 2014 | February 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 | 192.0 | 3,278.9 | 3,086.9 | 231.8 | 3,332.3 | 3,100.5 | 8.3 | 257.1 | 248.7 | 13.8 | 263.9 | 250.1 | |||
Goods | 219.8 | 1,927.1 | 1,707.3 | 255.2 | 1,953.2 | 1,698.0 | 10.9 | 148.4 | 137.5 | 25.2 | 157.7 | 132.5 | |||
Services | 67.8 | 650.1 | 582.3 | 67.0 | 694.4 | 627.4 | 2.8 | 54.5 | 51.7 | 1.8 | 51.3 | 49.4 | |||
Primary income | 46.9 | 611.7 | 564.8 | 50.0 | 589.3 | 539.3 | 9.4 | 46.4 | 37.0 | 10.3 | 46.9 | 36.6 | |||
Secondary income | -142.5 | 89.9 | 232.4 | -140.5 | 95.3 | 235.8 | -14.8 | 7.8 | 22.5 | -23.6 | 8.0 | 31.6 | |||
CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 26.1 | 43.9 | 17.8 | 18.9 | 34.1 | 15.3 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 1.3 | |||
Net | Assets | Liabilities | Net | Assets | Liabilities | Net | Assets | Liabilities | Net | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 412.4 | 926.9 | 514.6 | 309.4 | 848.8 | 539.5 | -20.3 | 244.8 | 265.1 | 16.9 | 72.6 | 55.8 | |||
Direct investment | 5.3 | 587.5 | 582.2 | 48.7 | 165.4 | 116.8 | 6.0 | 13.6 | 7.7 | 4.3 | 34.3 | 30.0 | |||
Equity | 4.8 | 479.7 | 475.0 | -37.2 | 67.6 | 104.8 | 7.9 | 18.1 | 10.2 | 6.9 | 19.2 | 12.2 | |||
Debt instruments | 0.5 | 107.8 | 107.3 | 85.9 | 97.9 | 12.0 | -1.9 | -4.4 | -2.5 | -2.6 | 15.1 | 17.8 | |||
Portfolio investment | -72.9 | 201.6 | 274.5 | 166.6 | 462.3 | 295.7 | -32.0 | 8.3 | 40.3 | 8.9 | 44.8 | 36.0 | |||
Equity | -33.4 | 133.9 | 167.2 | -188.9 | 112.1 | 301.0 | -47.6 | -5.9 | 41.7 | -32.6 | 0.4 | 33.0 | |||
Debt securities | -39.5 | 67.7 | 107.3 | 355.5 | 350.2 | -5.3 | 15.6 | 14.2 | -1.4 | 41.5 | 44.5 | 3.0 | |||
Short-term | -14.1 | -8.1 | 6.0 | 99.6 | 48.7 | -50.9 | -18.6 | -25.0 | -6.4 | 3.4 | 0.2 | -3.3 | |||
Long-term | -25.4 | 75.8 | 101.2 | 255.9 | 301.5 | 45.6 | 34.2 | 39.2 | 5.0 | 38.1 | 44.3 | 6.3 | |||
Memo: Direct and portfolio investment | -67.7 | 789.1 | 856.8 | 215.3 | 627.8 | 412.5 | -26.1 | 21.9 | 48.0 | 13.2 | 79.1 | 66.0 | |||
Financial derivatives | 35.8 | 59.1 | 5.2 | 6.4 | |||||||||||
Other investment | 439.6 | 97.4 | -342.2 | 28.3 | 155.3 | 127.0 | -0.7 | 216.5 | 217.1 | -6.9 | -17.1 | -10.2 | |||
Eurosystem | 55.3 | -24.5 | -79.8 | 19.8 | -2.3 | -22.1 | -47.3 | -6.5 | 40.9 | 23.0 | 3.1 | -19.9 | |||
MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 329.2 | 48.0 | -281.1 | 50.2 | 147.0 | 96.9 | 63.2 | 217.8 | 154.6 | -41.6 | -32.0 | 9.6 | |||
General government | -2.8 | -2.3 | 0.5 | 13.9 | 3.4 | -10.5 | 1.8 | 3.5 | 1.7 | -2.1 | -4.9 | -2.8 | |||
Other sectors | 58.0 | 76.2 | 18.2 | -55.5 | 7.2 | 62.7 | -18.4 | 1.6 | 20.0 | 13.8 | 16.6 | 2.9 | |||
Of which: currency and deposits | 399.3 | 29.7 | -369.6 | 15.7 | 114.3 | 98.5 | -55.4 | 155.5 | 210.8 | 7.6 | -7.2 | -14.9 | |||
Reserve assets | 4.6 | 6.7 | 1.2 | 4.2 | |||||||||||
Errors and omissions | 194.3 | 58.7 | -29.1 | 2.7 |