Economy

Peso loses ground, PSEi tumbles to 7,200-level

MANILA -- Both the Philippine peso and the local bourse ended in the red on Thursday after news broke out of a higher-than-expected June inflation. The local unit ended the trading at 53.42...

June inflation accelerates to 5.2%

MANILA -- Actual inflation rate in June exceeded the government’s outlook as it stood at 5.2 percent, a record-high in more than five years. Data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Thursday...

DOF forecasts June inflation at 4.9%

MANILA -- The Department of Finance (DOF) sees inflation increasing even further to 4.9 percent in June, from the 4.6 percent figure posted in May. In the DOF economic bulletin released on Tuesday,...

DOF: Weakest currencies come from Asia’s fastest growing economies

MANILA -- The Department of Finance (DOF) sought to allay domestic and foreign investors' fears that the depreciating peso is dragging the national economy down with it. In its economic bulletin released on...

China says its trade practices benefit world

China defended its trade practices Thursday as being beneficial to the world as it tries to ease pressure from the United States and Europe to abandon what they consider to be...

3.50% interest rate ‘too low’ for PH GDP growth

MANILA -- BMI Research, Fitch Group's think tank, contends that the current policy interest rates of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) are still “too low” to propel the country’s gross domestic product...

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