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Monetary Board cuts key policy rates by 25 basis points anew

By Ian Laqui | 6 days ago

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ monetary board has decided to further cut key interest rates by 25 basis points on...

Business

Bangko Sentral greenlights $3.81 billion in Q3 foreign borrowings

By Ian Laqui | October 22, 2024 - 2:06pm

The Philippines’ central bank approved $3.81 billion in public sector foreign borrowings for the third quarter of 2024,...

Business

Philippines' foreign borrowings near $4 billion in Q2

By Jean Mangaluz | July 22, 2024 - 10:58am

The Philippines' central bank Monetary Board approved $3.90 billion in public sector foreign borrowings from April to June...

Business

EDITORIAL - Beyond resignation

July 5, 2024 - 12:00am

The resignations, accepted by Malacañang, took effect on July 1.

Opinion

‘It was up to them’

By Marianne V. Go | June 10, 2024 - 12:00am

In a meeting three weeks ago, Malacañang had made it clear to the two erring Monetary Board (MB) members that they would have to resign on their own to resolve the ghost employee controversy surrounding them,...

Business

Another Monetary Board member quits

By Keisha Ta-Asan | June 8, 2024 - 12:00am

Another member of the Monetary Board (MB), the highest policy-making arm of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, has resigned...

Headlines

BSP: Monetary Board functioned as ‘normal’ amid 'ghost employees' issue

By Ian Laqui | May 28, 2024 - 2:10pm

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said that its Monetary Board has not affected its operations amid reported "ghost employees,"...

Business

BSP’s monetary board retains policy rate at 6.5%

By Ian Laqui | May 16, 2024 - 6:16pm

This has been the fifth time the MB kept the interest rate since its off-cycle policy rate hike in October 2023 to mitigate...

Business

BSP keeps policy rate untouched at 6.5%

By Ian Laqui | November 17, 2023 - 11:53am

The monetary board held steady at a 6.50% benchmark interest rate, citing a recent dip in the country's inflation figures...

Business

Quick look at the week ahead

November 13, 2023 - 9:41am

The first half of the week is going to be dominated by analyst and press briefings from some of the PSE’s bluest of...

Stock Commentary