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Euro area monthly balance of payments (December 2017)
In December 2017 the current account of the euro area recorded a surplus of €29.9 billion.[1] In the financial account, combined direct and portfolio investment recorded net disposals of assets of €24 billion and of liabilities of €23 billion. The current account of the euro area recorded a surplus of €29.9 billion in December 2017 (see Table 1). This reflected surpluses for goods (€30.9 billion), services (€7.3 billion) and primary income (€3.7 billion), which were partly offset by a deficit for secondary income (€12.0 billion). According to the preliminary results for 2017 as a whole, the current ... (full story)