By Joann Villanueva/PNA
MANILA -- An assurance from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) that the banking system remains strong despite Hanjin’s default soothed the fears in the local equities market but...
By Joann Villanueva/PNA
MANILA -- The Bureau of the Treasury’s (BTr) auction committee on Monday only partially awarded the benchmark 91-day Treasury bill (T-bill) but fully awarded the longer tenor papers after...
By Joann Villanueva/PNA
MANILA – Risk-on sentiment returned to the Philippines' financial and capital markets Wednesday, allowing both local stocks and the peso to walk away with gains.
The Philippine Stock Exchange index...
By Joann Villanueva/PNA
MANILA -- Investors swamped Tuesday’s auction of the Philippines’ 10-year Treasury bond (T-bond) but the paper’s interest rate slipped on expectations that domestic inflation rate will continue to decelerate.
Average...
By Kris Crismundo/PNA
MANILA -- Consumer group Laban Konsyumer, Inc. (LKI) expects this year’s inflation rate to surpass the government’s 2 percent to 4 percent inflation target.
In a statement Tuesday, LKI president...
By Joann Villanueva/PNA
MANILA -- Investors' expectations that the US-China trade talks this week will go a long way towards ending the trade war helped boost the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi)...
