WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday emphasized that inflation has remained stubbornly high in recent months and said it doesn't plan to cut interest rates until it has "greater confidence" that price increases are slowing sustainably to its 2% target. The Fed issued its decision in...
Foreign portfolio investments, often referred to as “hot money”, yielded net inflows of $377 million in the first quarter this year, a turnaround from the $328 million net outflows transacted in the same period last year, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. For March alone, the ...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said the inflation rate for the month of April likely settled at a low of 3.5 percent or a high of 4.3 percent versus March’s 3.7 percent, amid elevated gasoline prices and a depreciating peso vis-à-vis the US dollar. Inflation is the increase in the...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has launched Paleng-QR Ph Plus in the Province of Ilocos Sur and the City of Vigan last April 23, bringing the number of local government units (LGUs) with digital payments in public markets, public utility vehicles, and business establishments to 68. BSP...
The value transactions of banks and non-banks via the PESONet and InstaPay reached P3.81 trillion in the first quarter 2024, up 33 percent from same time last year of P2.87 trillion, based on data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). The combined volume of both PESONet and InstaPay in the...
NEW YORK — The best week for U.S. stocks since November closed out with more gains thanks to Alphabet and Microsoft on Friday. The S&P 500 rallied 1% to finish its first winning week in the last four. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 153 points, or 0.4%, and the Nasdaq...
WASHINGTON — Regulators have closed Republic First Bank, a regional lender operating in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Friday it had seized the Philadelphia-based bank, which did business as Republic Bank and had roughly $6 billion in assets...
Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada has filed a bill that seeks to require employers nationwide to provide a free financial literacy program for all its employees. Estrada said Senate Bill No. 2630 or the proposed “Personal Finance Education in the Workplace Act” mandates employers to help...
DAVAO CITY – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas-Mindanao, in collaboration with the Philippine Information Agency-11, convened media practitioners in an information session to enhance industry awareness on financial consumer protection on March 21. THE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas-Mindanao conducted...
The Philippines’ current account deficit shrank by 38.6 percent to $11.2 billion last year (equivalent to -2.6 percent of the country’s gross domestic product) from P$18.3 billion in 2022 (equivalent to -4.5 percent of the country’s GDP) The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said “The lower...
The Philippines’ total external debt (EDT) rose by $14.1 billion or by 12.7 percent to $125.4 billion in 2023 from the end-2022 level of $111.3 billion, driven by net availments of $9.2 billion, bulk of which were net borrowings by the national government. The Bangko Sentral ng...
Remittances up 2.7% to $3.15 B in January Personal remittances from Overseas Filipinos (OFs) went up 2.7 percent to $3.15 billion in the first month of 2024 from the $3.07 billion registered in the same month last year. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said the increase in personal remittances in...
