Benchmark interest rates for short-term debt papers posted mixed results as investors await President Marcos’ first state of the nation address (SONA). At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on July 25, the bellwether 91-day Treasury bill rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, dropped to...
Lingering concerns over higher inflation and aggressive tightening by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) failed to push up the interest rate for long-term government debt papers. At the Bureau of the Treasury auction on Tuesday, July 19, the yield for the reissued 10-year Treasury bond, with a...
Philippine benchmark interest rates for short-term loans jacked up following the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) surprise off-cycle move last week, along with expectations that the central bank could deliver more aggressive tightening. At Monday's auction...
The national government borrowed lower than programmed after Philippine benchmark interest rates for short-term loans rose on looming aggressive tightening. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on July 11, the government sold only P13.16 billion worth of short-term IOUs, below the P15 billion...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said on Tuesday, July 5, that the unused Covid-19 funds that were flagged by the Commission on Audit (COA) were already turned over to the national treasury. “Aside from the contact tracers being given by the DILG out of our...
The national government borrowed less than expected after interest rate for long-term Philippine debt papers rose. At the Bureau of the Treasury auction on Tuesday, June 14, the yield for the seven-year Treasury bond with a remaining life of six-year and 11-months settled at 6.740 percent. The...
Philippine benchmark interest rates for short-term loans rose amid expectations of higher inflation. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on June 13, the bellwether 91-day T-bill rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, increased to 1.572 percent from 1.440 percent previously. The Bureau of...
Investors swarmed short-term government debt papers offer on Monday, June 6, as the Bureau of the Treasury partially awarded the one-year IOU at a higher interest rate. The yield on the 91-day Treasury bill, which banks use in pricing their loans, declined to 1.440 percent from 1.460 percent a week...
As the pandemic begins to slowdown and the economy further reopens, the national government’s borrowing requirement was significantly reduced in April mainly due to less financing coming from overseas lenders. Data from the Bureau of the Treasury on Sunday, June 5, showed that the government...
As the country’s debt stock continued to rise in April, Malacañang said Thursday that reducing the Philippine debt remains the government's priority. In fact, Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said, the Duterte administration’s economic team already “proposed a fiscal consolidation and...
The national government’s debt stock continued to rise in April this year, driven mainly by additional borrowings from both local and foreign creditors as well as the weakening peso against the US dollar, the Bureau of the Treasury reported. As of April 2022, the government’s total outstanding...
Philippine benchmark interest rates for short-term loans dipped with strong demand from domestic investors. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on May 30, the bellwether 91-day Treasury bill rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, fell to 1.460 percent from 1.675 percent last week. The...
