Tag page - Monetary Board of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

Inflation would likely fall to a five-year low in 2025, providing policy space for more interest rate cuts supportive of economic growth, according to the think tank Capital Economics. "We expect GDP [gross domestic product] growth in the Philippines to remain relatively strong in 2025, helped by...

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) expects the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to cut key interest rates by an additional 100 basis points (bps) for the remainder of 2025 to arrest potentially slower economic growth as a result of the intensifying global trade war. "The BSP has room to...

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is expected to finally push through with its much-awaited reduction in key interest rates to protect the economy from the likelihood of a wider negative outlook gap, no thanks to United States (US) President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs. In an April 4...

Christmas to me is riding a bike around the CCP complex when it was quieter and most of the streets were off limits to motorists. I would bike as fast as I could, challenging gravity, while singing “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” faster and faster until I could go no faster on the bike, let alone...