Rates of short-dated IOUs, or treasury bills, dropped across the board at yesterday auction as investors expect a slower inflation rate in the final month of last year. During the Bureau of the Treasury’s first auction for 2021, the rate of three-month papers fell to 0.987 percent from previous...
The Duterte administration has increased its domestic borrowing program for the first month of next year, data from the Bureau of the Treasury revealed. According to an online advisory, the Treasury indicated that the national government will sell P80 billion worth...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) 28-day securities was oversubscribed by 1.59 times during its Friday auction, its last for 2020. “The BSP offered and awarded in full P80 billion worth of 28-day bills in the last BSP Securities auction for the year amid increased demand for liquidity...
The national government has successfully sold P20-billion treasury bills today, the Bureau of the Treasury said. At an auction, interest rate of three-month debt papers slightly inched up from 1.015 percent last week to 1.022 percent, allowing the government to raise P5 billion as planned....
While renewable energy (RE) developers are brandishing that their technologies are already the cheapest in the market, the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB) ironically dropped the bomb that the programmed RE projects in the country will increase the power bills of Filipino consumers by P0.23...
The average rate of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) 28-day securities fell on Friday while bids remained oversubscribed. The auction of BSP bills attracted P117.10 billion tenders against an offer of P60 billion. The tenders were higher than the previous week’s P112.20 billion. The offer...
Customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will not need to be anxious on their December electricity bills, as initial forecast point to “flattish rate” or there could be very slight cost movement in the overall tariff. “Initial data suggests that generation costs for December will be...
The Philippines got the lowest coupon ever after raising $2.75 billion from the global bond market, according to Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin E. Diokno. “The Philippines set a record for lowest coupon levels,” said Diokno on Thursday. The ROPs sold have maturities of 10.5...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) auction of 28-day BSP bills were still oversubscribed and fetched a lower rate last Friday. “Market interest remained strong,” according to BSP Deputy Governor Francisco G. Dakila Jr. The BSP offered P60 billion, same as last November 20, and...
The central bank’s auction of 28-day securities fetched a lower rate this week but had a higher bid volume of P123.80 billion. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) one-month bills was still being offered at P60 billion on Friday, and it received oversubscribed tenders which was higher than...
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin E. Diokno said the improved external sector accounts in the third quarter compared to the second quarter suggests that the worst is indeed over as far as the country’s inflows are concerned. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin E....
The national government raised P22 billion through the sale of short-dated IOUs, higher by P2 billion against its P20 billion program for the week. Interest rates on three-month and six-month papers declined compared with the previous week, while one-year note yield was unchanged. The 91-day...
