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 | March 2015 (revised) | April 2015 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2014 | April 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 | 187.8 | 3,282.7 | 3,094.9 | 244.9 | 3,370.5 | 3,125.7 | 24.4 | 299.2 | 274.8 | 20.4 | 282.0 | 261.6 | |||
| Goods | 212.3 | 1,920.7 | 1,708.4 | 279.7 | 1,991.1 | 1,711.4 | 28.9 | 183.0 | 154.2 | 31.0 | 172.4 | 141.4 | |||
| Services | 70.6 | 657.5 | 586.9 | 60.0 | 703.0 | 643.1 | 3.8 | 58.2 | 54.4 | 3.3 | 57.3 | 54.0 | |||
| Primary income | 48.9 | 615.4 | 566.5 | 48.9 | 580.4 | 531.5 | 5.0 | 49.7 | 44.7 | -2.6 | 44.1 | 46.6 | |||
| Secondary income | -143.9 | 89.1 | 233.0 | -143.8 | 95.9 | 239.7 | -13.3 | 8.2 | 21.5 | -11.3 | 8.2 | 19.6 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 26.6 | 43.3 | 16.6 | 18.9 | 35.1 | 16.2 | 1.9 | 3.9 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 2.4 | 1.3 | |||
| Net | Assets | Liabilities | Net | Assets | Liabilities | Net | Assets | Liabilities | Net | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 405.7 | 916.7 | 511.0 | 225.8 | 787.8 | 562.0 | -2.2 | -14.0 | -11.8 | -18.1 | 112.8 | 130.8 | |||
| Direct investment | 0.8 | 499.4 | 498.6 | -37.7 | 135.1 | 172.8 | -44.8 | -21.4 | 23.4 | -14.0 | 7.2 | 21.2 | |||
| Equity | 13.4 | 415.8 | 402.4 | -104.0 | 34.5 | 138.5 | -45.8 | -36.3 | 9.5 | -5.6 | 4.1 | 9.7 | |||
| Debt instruments | -12.6 | 83.6 | 96.2 | 66.4 | 100.7 | 34.3 | 1.0 | 14.8 | 13.8 | -8.4 | 3.1 | 11.5 | |||
| Portfolio investment | -51.3 | 239.0 | 290.3 | 160.2 | 428.2 | 268.0 | 5.2 | 21.4 | 16.1 | 51.5 | 34.1 | -17.4 | |||
| Equity | -57.8 | 138.0 | 195.7 | -215.7 | 70.7 | 286.3 | -40.6 | -25.0 | 15.6 | 13.6 | 19.6 | 6.0 | |||
| Debt securities | 6.4 | 101.0 | 94.6 | 375.8 | 357.5 | -18.3 | 45.8 | 46.4 | 0.6 | 37.9 | 14.5 | -23.4 | |||
| Short-term | 25.8 | 0.7 | -25.1 | 14.9 | 33.5 | 18.6 | -20.1 | 4.1 | 24.2 | -25.6 | -11.5 | 14.1 | |||
| Long-term | -19.4 | 100.3 | 119.7 | 360.9 | 324.0 | -36.9 | 65.9 | 42.3 | -23.6 | 63.5 | 26.0 | -37.5 | |||
| Memo: Direct and portfolio investment | -50.6 | 738.4 | 788.9 | 122.5 | 563.3 | 440.8 | -39.6 | -0.1 | 39.5 | 37.5 | 41.3 | 3.8 | |||
| Financial derivatives | 32.6 | 75.3 | 10.6 | 4.2 | |||||||||||
| Other investment | 416.2 | 138.2 | -278.0 | 26.3 | 147.5 | 121.2 | 26.3 | -25.0 | -51.3 | -54.9 | 72.2 | 127.1 | |||
| Eurosystem | 65.2 | -11.8 | -77.0 | 29.7 | -4.0 | -33.7 | 22.8 | 2.6 | -20.1 | 5.2 | -1.7 | -6.8 | |||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 269.0 | 55.4 | -213.6 | 7.7 | 122.7 | 115.0 | -16.6 | -62.2 | -45.6 | -65.2 | 63.3 | 128.4 | |||
| General government | -8.4 | -6.6 | 1.8 | 35.9 | 7.6 | -28.3 | 19.9 | 3.4 | -16.5 | -0.1 | -1.0 | -0.9 | |||
| Other sectors | 90.4 | 101.2 | 10.8 | -47.0 | 21.3 | 68.3 | 0.3 | 31.2 | 30.9 | 5.2 | 11.6 | 6.4 | |||
| Of which: currency and deposits | 409.5 | 109.1 | -300.4 | -55.3 | 69.2 | 124.5 | -3.9 | -60.9 | -57.1 | -63.8 | 64.7 | 128.5 | |||
| Reserve assets | 7.5 | 1.7 | 0.4 | -4.9 | |||||||||||
| Errors and omissions | 191.2 | -38.0 | -28.6 | -39.6 | |||||||||||