Benchmark short-term interest rates rose on the back of higher inflation forecast of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and concerns surrounding Ukraine. At Monday's auction on Feb. 21, yields on short-term government debt papers, increased, with the returns on the 91-day Treasury bill up to...
An estimated P1.9 trillion-worth of non-financial government properties, such as roads, hospitals, power plants, and irrigation facilities, have so far been covered by the Bureau of the Treasury in its National Asset Registry System (NARS) as of last year. The Treasury said the new entries to the...
The Bureau of the Treasury has raised an initial P120.76 billion well above the P30-billion on offer from the government's new five-year retail Treasury Bond (RTB) that generated total tenders of P183.44 billion at the launch Tuesday, Feb. 15. The Treasury said small Filipino savers wanting to take...
Investors pressed anew for an increase in Philippine benchmark interest rates for short-term loans. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on Feb. 14, the bellwether 91-day T-bill rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, rose to 0.810 percent from 0.710 percent previously. The Bureau of the...
Lingering concerns over high inflation in the United States and Federal Reserve’s future action pushed up the interest rate for long-term Philippine debt papers. At a Bureau of the Treasury auction on Tuesday, Feb. 8, the yield for the reissued 10-year Treasury bond went up to 5.093 percent from...
Short-term rates move sideways Short-term benchmark interest rates moved sideways amid excess liquidity in the financial market. At a Bureau of the Treasury auction on Monday, Feb. 7, the bellwether 91-day Treasury bill rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, inched up to 0.710 percent from...
Philippine benchmark interest rates for short-term loans dipped amid expectations of slower inflation rate. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on Jan. 31, the bellwether 91-day T-bill rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, slightly fell to 0.691 percent from 0.693 percent previously. The...
The benchmark interest rate on debt falling due in August 2028 rose at Tuesday's auction of the government IOUs at the Bureau of the Treasury. Bureau of the Treasury office Investors were willing to buy as much as P55.623 billion of the reissued seven-year Treasury bonds, nearly double the...
Benchmark interest rates declined anew as investors await the US Federal Reserve's meeting. At Monday's auction Jan. 24, the yields on short-term government debt papers, which banks use in pricing their loans, went down, with the returns on the 91-day Treasury bill fell to 0.693 percent from 0.875...
The government rejected all bids for long-term debt papers as investors sought a higher yield. At the Bureau of the Treasury’s auction on Tuesday, Jan. 4, investors had sought a return of 4.814 percent for the reissued seven-year Treasury bonds, higher than the previous yield of 4.468 percent...
Short-term benchmark interest rates dipped as investors anticipated slower inflation following the implementation of fuel price rollbacks in December, the Bureau of the Treasury said on Monday, Jan. 3. The yield on three-month papers, which banks use in pricing their loans, eased to 1.075 percent...
The government rejected all bids for its long-term debt papers on Tuesday, Dec. 14, after investors sought higher yields. National Treasurer Rosalia V. De Leon said there is more room for yields to decline following deceleration in inflation last month and assurance from the central bank governor...
