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BSP halts easing cycle, keeps policy rate at 5.75%

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) on Thursday kept its key policy rate unchanged at 5.75 percent as inflation remains within its target range. The...

BSP’s Monetary Board trims number of policy meetings to six in 2025

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ Monetary Board (MB) said over the weekend it reduced the frequency of its monetary policy stance meetings to six...

Monetary Board likely to cut policy rates again in 2025

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ Monetary Board is expected to reduce key interest rates in its first policy meeting next year. “We would be open...

BSP clears $3.81-b foreign borrowings

The Monetary Board of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas approved $3.81 billion in public sector foreign borrowings in the third quarter of 2024, up...

Querubin takes oath as MB member

Former United Coconut Planters Bank president and chief executive Jose Querubin took his oath as a member of the Monetary Board, the policy-making body...

PH maintains net creditor position in IMF

The Philippines maintained its net creditor position in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after the central bank’s policy-making Monetary Board (MB) approved the country’s...

BSP rate cut seen to boost economy

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) Monetary Board on Thursday slashed its overnight borrowing rate by 25 basis points to 6.25 percent, signaling its...

BSP lifts moratorium on new digital banks

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said Thursday the Monetary Board, its policy-making body, approved the lifting of the moratorium on the grant of...

Monetary Board approved $3.90-b foreign loans in Q2

The Monetary Board of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas approved $3.9 billion in foreign borrowings by the Philippine government for the second quarter of 2024. The...

Recto: BSP rate cut ‘very much possible’ in August

Finance Secretary Ralph Recto said Monday he expects the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to reduce the key interest rates by August 2024. “That’s very...

BSP approves lower gov’t foreign borrowings in first quarter of 2024

The Monetary Board, the policy-making body of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), approved lower government borrowings from foreign lenders in the first quarter...

BSP keeps borrowing rate at 6.5% despite higher inflation forecast

The Monetary Board of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) on Monday kept the overnight borrowing rate steady at 6.5 percent for the fourth...

Recto expects BSP to keep interest rates steady in April

Finance Secretary Ralph Recto expects the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to keep the interest rates steady for its fourth consecutive policy meeting since...

The vanishing middle class

"The middle class have to fend for themselves against more and more difficult odds, their tribe vanishing ever more" The Monetary Board decided to keep...
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