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15/03/2010 Latest harmonised competitiveness indicators based on consumer prices for euro area countries The harmonised indicators of competitiveness provide meaningful and comparable measures of euro area countries' price and cost competitiveness that are also consistent with the real effective exchange rates (EERs) of the euro. more
10/03/2010 Latest harmonised long-term interest rate statistics (LTIR) The latest update of the LTIR used for assessing convergence, for the reference period February 2010, has been published on the "Long-term interest rate" web page. The monthly updates are released on that page in line with the predetermined release calendar. more
10/03/2010 Press release: Euro area securities issues statistics The annual growth rate of the outstanding amount of debt securities issued by euro area residents decreased from 8.1% in December 2009 to 7.7% in January 2010. For the outstanding amount of quoted shares issued by euro area residents, the annual growth rate was 3.0% in January 2010, unchanged from December 2009. more
09/03/2010 Latest national aggregated balance sheets of non-participating Member States' MFIs The latest updates to the national aggregated balance sheets of all non-participating Member States' MFIs (excluding NCBs) for the reference period January 2010 have been published. more
08/03/2010 Latest monthly outstanding amounts of STEP labelled debt securities The latest update of the monthly outstanding amounts of debt securities for programmes labelled as STEP compliant has been published. In February 2010, the outstanding amounts decreased by EUR 9.2 billion (-2.2%) to EUR 406.1 billion. more
03/03/2010 Euro area MFIs interest rate statistics In January 2010 the average MFI interest rates on new deposits and loans showed mixed developments. Almost all the average MFI interest rates on outstanding amounts of deposits and loans further decreased more
26/02/2010 Seasonally adjusted euro area HICP Following today's publication by Eurostat of the January 2010 figures of the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) for the euro area, the ECB has compiled the seasonally adjusted monthly rate of change of the euro area HICP, which is 0.2% for January 2010. The latest HICP data, including breakdowns of the main aggregates, can be accessed from the Statistical Data Warehouse. more
26/02/2010 International reserves and foreign currency liquidity The latest update of the outstanding amounts of the Eurosystem's and the ECB's international reserves and related assets and liabilities has been published. In January 2010, the official reserve assets of the Eurosystem increased by EUR 6.4 billion (1.4%) to EUR 468.7 billion. The contribution of the ECB increased by EUR 1.7 billion (3.5%) to EUR 49.5 billion. more
25/02/2010 Press release: Monetary developments in the euro area The annual rate of change of M3 increased to 0.1% in January 2010, from -0.3% in December 2009.1 The three-month average of the annual rates of change of M3 over the period November 2009 - January 2010 stood at -0.1%, unchanged from the previous period. more
25/02/2010 Latest euro area Credit Institutions sector balance sheet statistics The latest updates of the aggregated balance sheet statistics of the euro area Credit Institutions sector for the reference period December 2009 have been published today. more
22/02/2010 Press release: Euro area investment fund statistics In December 2009, the amount outstanding of shares/units issued by euro area investment funds other than money market funds was higher than one quarter earlier in September 2009. This increase was due both to net issues of shares/units and increases in share/unit prices. more
19/02/2010 Publication of latest statistics on quarterly negotiated wages in the euro area Average negotiated wage rates in the euro area grew by 2.1% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2009, down from 2.3% in the third quarter of 2009. more
19/02/2010 Press release: Euro area balance of payments In December 2009 the working day and seasonally adjusted current account of the euro area recorded a surplus of EUR 1.9 billion. In the financial account, combined direct and portfolio investment recorded net inflows of EUR 44 billion (non-seasonally adjusted).
In 2009 as a whole, the working day-adjusted deficit on the euro area current account amounted to EUR 59.0 billion (about 0.7% of GDP), compared with a deficit of EUR 140.6 billion in 2008. Combined direct and portfolio investment recorded net inflows of EUR 251 billion in 2009, compared with net inflows of EUR 162 billion in 2008, mainly as a result of higher net direct investment in the euro area by non-resident investors. more
18/02/2010 Euro banknotes in circulation: latest figures The circulation of euro banknotes has decreased in January this year from 806.4 to 783.5 billion EUR. This decrease is mainly due to the negative net issuance of 50 euro notes (-13.4 billion EUR), 20 euro notes (-4.3 billion EUR) and 100 euro notes (-2.9 billion EUR). more
11/02/2010 Monthly Bulletin more
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08/02/2010 Euro area international investment position - debt securities by currency of denomination at end-June 2009 At the end of June 2009, the total value of debt securities issued by non-euro area corporations and governments, and held by euro area residents was EUR 2.7 trillion, of which EUR 1.4 trillion was denominated in euro (52%) and EUR 0.7 trillion in US dollar (28%). Moreover, the total value of euro area debt securities held by non-euro area residents was EUR 4.0 trillion, of which EUR 2.7 trillion was denominated in euro (68%) and EUR 0.7 trillion in US dollar (16%). more
Some methodological information can be found in The international role of the euro published annually.
05/02/2010 List of financial vehicle corporations in the euro area and in non-participating Member States For the first time the list of financial vehicle corporations operating in the euro area (and in some of the non-participating Member States) has been published, referring to the end of 2009. In the future, this list, including some details on the type of the financial vehicle corporations concerned, will be updated quarterly. more
29/01/2010 Latest national aggregated balance sheets of euro area MFIs The balance sheets for the reference period December 2009 (excluding the Eurosystem) have been published. more
29/01/2010 Press release: Results of the January 2010 bank lending survey for the euro area The results reported in the January 2010 bank lending survey (BLS) relate to changes recorded during the fourth quarter of 2009 and to expectations for the first quarter of 2010. The survey was conducted between 7 December 2009 and 8 January 2010. 118 euro area banks participated, leading to a response rate of 100%. As in previous survey rounds, a number of ad hoc questions dealing specifically with the impact of the financial turmoil were included. For the first time since its introduction, the BLS questionnaire included two additional ad hoc questions with an extended forward-looking time horizon (i.e. over twelve months rather than the usual three-month horizon regularly covered in the main part of the questionnaire). more
28/01/2010 Euro area economic and financial developments by institutional sector: third quarter 2009 In the third quarter of 2009, the annual growth rate of net disposable income in the euro area equalled -3.2%, compared with -4.8% in the second quarter of 2009. Final consumption in the euro area continued to decrease in the third quarter (-0.2% annually, after -0.3% in the previous quarter). The annual growth rate of gross fixed capital formation was -12.0% in the third quarter of 2009, against -13.5% in the previous quarter. In the third quarter of 2009, the annual growth rate of net saving was -43.0%, up from -63.5% in the second quarter.
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20/01/2010 Press release: Euro area balance of payments (geographical breakdown for the third quarter of 2009) and international investment position (at the end of the third quarter of 2009) The current account of the euro area balance of payments recorded a deficit of EUR 2.7 billion in the third quarter of 2009. The largest bilateral deficits were with the group of “other countries” (i.e. countries outside the EU other than Canada, Japan, Switzerland and the United States), with the EU institutions and with Japan. By contrast, the largest surpluses were with the United Kingdom, the countries that joined the European Union in 2004 and 2007, and Switzerland. more
20/01/2010 MFI statistics 2010: number of financial institutions in the euro area and in the EU decreases On 1 January 2010, the total number of monetary financial institutions (MFIs) in the euro area stood at 8,076. This comes down to a net decrease of 274 units (3.3%) in comparison with the situation one year ago. The decline was spread across the whole euro area. On 1 January 2010, there were 10,192 MFIs in the European Union (EU), a net decrease of 284 units as compared with the year before. more
19/01/2010 ECB launches a euro area real-time statistical database This new database contains vintages of time series for several macroeconomic and financial variables for the euro area, at the time of publication (i.e. before any revisions carried out at a later stage). more
15/01/2010 Estimate of changes in euro area residential property prices The latest ECB estimates of residential property prices in the euro area countries indicate that house prices decreased, on average, by 2.4% in the first half of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. more
30/12/2009 International reserves and foreign currency liquidity The latest update of the outstanding amounts of the Eurosystem's and the ECB's international reserves and related assets and liabilities has been published. In November 2009, the official reserve assets of the Eurosystem increased by EUR 26.4 billion (6.0%) to EUR 464.2 billion. The contribution of the ECB increased by EUR 1.4 billion (3.1%) to EUR 47.3 billion. more
15/12/2009 Press release: Effective exchange rates of the euro and harmonised competitiveness indicators for euro area countries updated The trade weights used in the calculation of the effective exchange rates (EERs) of the euro and harmonised competitiveness indicators (HCIs) of the euro area countries have been updated to reflect recent developments in the pattern of international trade. As a consequence, the increase in the euro’s EER since 1999 has been somewhat less pronounced than suggested by previous figures. This is mainly due to the higher weight given to China and the lower weights assigned to the United Kingdom and Japan in the new calculation. more
30/11/2009 Release of additional STEP statistics The ECB is today publishing for the first time detailed amounts outstanding and new issues data of debt securities for programmes labelled as STEP compliant. Data will be published weekly with business frequency. more
04/11/2009 ESCB public commitment on European Statistics The European Central Bank is today publishing definitions of the principles followed by the ESCB in the development, collection, compilation and dissemination of European Statistics by means of the amendment of the "Public commitment on European Statistics by the ESCB". more
04/11/2009 List of investment funds in the euro area and in non-participating Member States For the first time the list of investment funds operating in the euro area and in the non-participating Member States (except Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom) has been published, referring to the end of the second quarter of 2009. In the future, this list, including some details on the type of the investment fund concerned, will be updated quarterly. more
02/11/2009 Euro area international investment position (annual developments, incl. a geographical breakdown) The international investment position of the euro area vis-à-vis the rest of the world recorded net liabilities of EUR 1.6 trillion (representing 18% of euro area GDP) at the end of 2008. Compared with the end of 2007, the net liability position increased by EUR 0.4 trillion. This higher net liability position was mainly the result of net financial transactions (EUR 164 billion), revaluation effects due to exchange rate changes (EUR 108 billion) and other adjustments (due to new data for one euro area country) (EUR 204 billion).
At the end of 2008, 23% of the euro area stock of direct investment abroad was in the United Kingdom and 20% in the United States, while almost two-thirds of the stock of foreign direct investment in the euro area originated from these two countries. The portfolio investment assets of euro area residents mainly reflected holdings of securities issued in the United States (33%) and in the United Kingdom (24%).
With this release of statistics, the ECB is introducing an improved compilation method for euro area balance of payments and international investment position statistics (see the “Data revisions” section). more
29/10/2009 Euro area economic and financial developments by institutional sector: second quarter 2009 In the second quarter of 2009, the annual growth rate of net disposable income in the euro area equalled -4.6%, compared with -4.4% in the first quarter of 2009. Final consumption in the euro area decreased by 0.4% annually in the second quarter, following an increase of 0.5% in the previous quarter. The annual growth rate of gross fixed capital formation decreased to -13.0% in the second quarter of 2009, from -10.9% in the previous quarter. In the second quarter of 2009, the annual growth rate of net saving increased to -58.2%, up from -64.9% in the previous quarter.
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09/10/2009 Update of the Indicators of financial integration in the euro area The latest update of the indicators of financial integration has been released, mostly referring to June 2009. These indicators allow an overall assessment of the degree of financial integration in the main financial market segments of the euro area, covering the money market, bond markets, equity markets and banking markets, and include indicators related to market infrastructures. more
25/09/2009 Press release: Monetary developments in the euro area The annual rate of growth of M3 decreased to 2.5% in August 2009, from 3.0% in July 2009.1 The three-month average of the annual growth rates of M3 over the period June 2009 - August 2009 decreased to 3.0%, from 3.4% in the period May 2009 - July 2009. more
24/09/2009 ECB publishes the Euro Money Market Survey 2009 Today the European Central Bank (ECB) is publishing a report entitled “Euro Money Market Survey 2009”, which illustrates the main developments in the euro money market in the second quarter of 2009, in comparison with the second quarter of 2008. more
21/09/2009 Survey on the access to finance of SMEs in the euro area According to the results of a survey on the access to finance, conducted by the ECB in cooperation with the European Commission, 77% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that had applied for bank loans in the first half of 2009 reported that they had received all or part of the amount requested, while 12% reported that their application had been rejected. more
15/09/2009 Update of the Consolidated Banking Data (reference period: end-2008) The Consolidated Banking Data (CBD) reporting information on the profitability, balance sheets, asset quality and solvency of EU banking systems have been updated. The CBD is based on annual, aggregated information provided by the member organisations of the Banking Supervision Committee (BSC) of the European System of Central Banks. more
11/09/2009 Statistics on payments and securities trading, clearing and settlement – data for 2008 In 2008, the total number of non-cash payments, using all types of instruments, increased by 5% to 78 billion in the EU. Card payments accounted for almost 40% of all transactions in 2008, while credit transfers and direct debits accounted equally for most of the remainder. more
18/08/2009 Euro banknotes in circulation: latest figures The circulation of euro banknotes has increased in July this year, moving from 763.7 to 772.7 billion EUR. This increase is mainly due to the net issuance of 50 euro notes (+4.5 billion EUR) and 100 euro notes (+1.8 billion EUR). more
30/07/2009 Euro area accounts Euro area accounts present a complete and consistent set of quarterly data for all resident institutional sectors. more
30/07/2009 Euro area economic and financial developments by institutional sector In the first quarter of 2009, the annual growth rate of net disposable income in the euro area equalled -5.2%, compared with -0.8% in the fourth quarter of 2008 (see Annex Table 1). The annual growth rate of consumption was 0.5% in the first quarter, following growth of 2.1% in the previous quarter. The annual growth rate of gross fixed capital formation decreased to -10.6% in the first quarter of 2009, from -3.3% in the previous quarter. In the first quarter of 2009 the annual growth rate of net saving declined to -68.2%, from -28.2% in the previous quarter. more
29/05/2009 International reserves and foreign currency liquidity The latest update of the outstanding amounts of the Eurosystem’s and the ECB's international reserves and related assets and liabilities has been published. In April 2009, the official reserve assets of the Eurosystem decreased by EUR 8.8 billion (2.2%) to EUR 387.0 billion. The contribution of the ECB decreased by EUR 1.2 billion (2.3%) to EUR 50.0 billion. more
19/05/2009 Euro banknotes in circulation: latest figures The circulation of Euro banknotes has increased in April this year, moving from 747 to 759 billion EUR. This increase is mainly due to the net issuance of 50 Euro notes (+6 billion EUR) and 20 Euro notes (+1.9 billion EUR). more
18/05/2009 Press release: Euro area securities issues statistics The annual growth rate of the outstanding amount of debt securities issued by euro area residents increased from 11.1% in February 2009 to 11.9% in March. For the outstanding amount of quoted shares issued by euro area residents, the annual growth rate increased from 1.1% in February 2009 to 1.5% in March. more
15/05/2009 Seasonally adjusted euro area HICP Following today's publication by Eurostat of the April 2009 figures of the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) for the euro area, the ECB has compiled the seasonally adjusted monthly rate of change of the euro area HICP, which is 0.1% for April 2009. The latest HICP data, including breakdowns of the main aggregates, can be accessed from the Statistical Data Warehouse more

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