Germany’s current account posted a surplus of €17.6 billion in July 2021, down €5.0 billion on the previous month’s level. Although the surplus in the goods account rose, the surplus in invisible current transactions, which comprise primary and secondary income as well as services, declined significantly.

In July, the surplus in the goods account increased by €1.1 billion on the month to €17.5 billion, with imports of goods contracting more sharply than exports.

Der EZB-Rat hat heute beschlossen, die drei Leitzinssätze der EZB um jeweils 75 Basispunkte anzuheben. Mit dieser dritten großen Leitzinserhöhung in Folge haben wir erhebliche Fortschritte bei der Rücknahme der geldpolitischen Akkommodierung erzielt. Wir haben den heutigen Beschluss gefasst – und gehen davon aus, dass wir die Zinsen weiter anheben werden –, um eine zeitnahe Rückkehr der Inflation auf das mittelfristige 2 %-Ziel zu gewährleisten. Wir werden den künftigen Leitzinspfad an der Entwicklung der Inflations- und Wirtschaftsaussichten ausrichten. Dabei folgen wir dem Ansatz, Zinsschritte von Sitzung zu Sitzung festzulegen.

At the end of the fourth quarter of 2016, households' financial assets amounted to €5,586 billion; this figure was up markedly by €98 billion (or 1.8%) from the third quarter of 2016. The increase owed partly to substantial valuation gains of just over €53 billion on financial assets, in particular on equities and investment fund shares.

Germany’s current account recorded a surplus of €13.1 billion in May 2021, down €7.9 billion on the previous month’s level. In addition to the declining surplus in the goods account, the main reason for this decrease was the balance in invisible current transactions, which comprise primary and secondary income as well as services, switching from a surplus to a deficit. 

Germany’s current account posted a surplus of €22.5 billion in June 2021, up €9.4 billion on the previous month’s level. This was attributable to an increase in the goods account balance and especially in the invisible current transactions balance comprising services as well as primary and secondary income.