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 | November 2014 (revised) | December 2014 | |||||||||||||
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December 2013 | December 2014 | ||||||||||||||
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 | 214.0 | 3,244.0 | 3,030.0 | 235.5 | 3,301.9 | 3,066.4 | 26.5 | 269.7 | 243.2 | 29.2 | 287.7 | 258.5 | |||
Goods | 214.8 | 1,916.3 | 1,701.6 | 241.6 | 1,943.3 | 1,701.7 | 23.0 | 163.3 | 140.3 | 25.2 | 158.7 | 133.5 | |||
Services | 71.1 | 641.2 | 570.1 | 78.1 | 686.9 | 608.7 | 5.9 | 56.1 | 50.2 | 5.8 | 63.0 | 57.2 | |||
Primary income | 71.6 | 598.9 | 527.3 | 59.7 | 583.2 | 523.5 | 8.1 | 43.0 | 34.9 | 12.4 | 57.3 | 44.9 | |||
Secondary income | -143.4 | 87.6 | 231.0 | -143.9 | 88.6 | 232.5 | -10.5 | 7.2 | 17.7 | -14.2 | 8.8 | 22.9 | |||
CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 21.3 | 39.0 | 17.7 | 20.6 | 34.7 | 14.1 | 2.2 | 3.4 | 1.2 | 2.5 | 5.2 | 2.6 | |||
Net | Assets | Liabilities | Net | Assets | Liabilities | Net | Assets | Liabilities | Net | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 450.5 | 785.0 | 334.5 | 347.8 | 730.9 | 383.1 | 79.5 | 147.9 | 68.4 | 23.3 | -138.5 | -161.8 | |||
Direct investment | 27.4 | 508.9 | 481.6 | 68.6 | 50.8 | -17.8 | 28.5 | 17.0 | -11.5 | -8.4 | -29.8 | -21.4 | |||
Equity | 63.5 | 484.3 | 420.8 | -5.5 | -5.8 | -0.3 | 8.4 | 14.1 | 5.7 | -7.3 | -10.0 | -2.8 | |||
Debt instruments | -36.1 | 24.6 | 60.7 | 74.2 | 56.6 | -17.5 | 20.1 | 2.9 | -17.2 | -1.1 | -19.8 | -18.6 | |||
Portfolio investment | 15.2 | 271.4 | 256.2 | 115.2 | 441.3 | 326.2 | 11.4 | 45.9 | 34.5 | 75.6 | 34.7 | -40.9 | |||
Equity | 15.6 | 172.9 | 157.3 | -113.0 | 132.7 | 245.6 | 5.5 | 9.1 | 3.6 | 42.1 | 19.4 | -22.7 | |||
Debt securities | -0.4 | 98.5 | 98.9 | 228.1 | 308.7 | 80.5 | 5.8 | 36.8 | 30.9 | 33.6 | 15.3 | -18.2 | |||
Short-term | -6.4 | 6.6 | 13.0 | 40.8 | 73.0 | 32.2 | 5.6 | -0.9 | -6.6 | -8.1 | 13.2 | 21.3 | |||
Long-term | 6.0 | 91.9 | 85.9 | 187.3 | 235.6 | 48.3 | 0.2 | 37.7 | 37.5 | 41.7 | 2.2 | -39.5 | |||
Memo: Direct and portfolio investment | 42.6 | 780.4 | 737.8 | 183.8 | 492.1 | 308.3 | 39.9 | 62.9 | 23.0 | 67.2 | 4.9 | -62.3 | |||
Financial derivatives | 33.1 | 43.4 | 3.4 | 1.6 | |||||||||||
Other investment | 370.1 | -33.2 | -403.3 | 116.1 | 190.9 | 74.8 | 35.4 | 80.8 | 45.4 | -46.5 | -146.0 | -99.5 | |||
Eurosystem | 58.8 | -20.0 | -78.8 | 52.5 | -6.2 | -58.7 | -2.0 | -1.2 | 0.9 | -5.0 | 2.9 | 7.9 | |||
MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 254.2 | -69.4 | -323.7 | 100.1 | 130.3 | 30.3 | 32.8 | 69.0 | 36.2 | -44.1 | -141.1 | -97.0 | |||
General government | -9.2 | -9.6 | -0.4 | 10.3 | 2.2 | -8.1 | 2.3 | 6.0 | 3.6 | 13.1 | -0.7 | -13.8 | |||
Other sectors | 66.2 | 65.8 | -0.4 | -46.7 | 64.6 | 111.4 | 2.2 | 6.9 | 4.7 | -10.5 | -7.1 | 3.4 | |||
Of which: currency and deposits | - | - | - | 169.9 | 131.9 | -38.0 | 23.0 | 60.8 | 37.8 | -26.0 | -114.9 | -89.0 | |||
Reserve assets | 4.8 | 4.5 | 0.8 | 1.1 | |||||||||||
Errors and omissions | 215.2 | 91.7 | 50.8 | -8.4 |