Benchmark yields for short-term loans went up ahead of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas' (BSP) policy meeting. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on Nov. 14, the bellwether 91-day Treasury bill rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, rose to 4.464 percent from 4.350 percent last week. The...
The Department of Finance (DOF) will continue borrowing mostly from the domestic debt markets under the Marcos administration on the back of the growing appetite of Filipino retail investors in government securities. In a statement on Tuesday, Aug. 23, Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno said...
Benchmark yields for short-term loans went up after the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) delivered another large interest rate hike last week. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on Aug. 22, the bellwether 91-day Treasury bill rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, rose to 2.070 percent...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will sell his first retail Treasury bond (RTB) to small Filipino savers, the Bureau of the Treasury announced on Friday, Aug. 19. In a notice, the Treasury bureau said the national government will launch next week another RTB, offering a minimum principal amount of...
The benchmark interest rate on debt falling due in almost 10-years declined at an auction of the government IOUs at the Bureau of the Treasury on Tuesday, Aug. 16. The interest rate of the 10-year IOUs, with a remaining life of nine-years and 10 months, fetched 5.813 percent, lower than the...
Yields on short-term government borrowings increased as investors expect the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to raise key policy rates this week. At an auction of Treasury bills on Monday, Aug. 15, the bellwether 91-day rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, inched up to 1.874 percent from...
Debt payments down 41% in H1 Debt payments by the national government went down by 41 percent in the first semester of the year due to lower amortization, data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed. The national government's debt servicing reached P458.35 billion in January to June this year,...
Interest rates for long-term Philippine debt papers declined despite weaker economic growth performance in the second quarter. At a Bureau of the Treasury auction on Tuesday, Aug. 9, yield on the reissued 10-year bonds with a remaining life of six years and five months fetched at 5.791 percent,...
Yields on short-term government borrowings were mixed as investors watch for clues concerning future Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and US Federal Reserve’s decisions. At an auction of Treasury bills on Monday, Aug. 8, the bellwether 91-day rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, dropped to...
Former President Duterte borrowed P6.843 trillion in total during his six years in Malacañang, driven mainly by his administration’s borrowing spree at the height of the pandemic, data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed. From a government debt of P5.948 trillion when former President Duterte...
The national government borrowed more than expected after interest rate for long-term Philippine debt papers declined. At a Bureau of the Treasury auction on Tuesday, Aug. 2, the coupon rate for the 3.5-year Treasury bond fetched at 5.250 percent, below the secondary market rate of 5.489 percent....
Philippine benchmark interest rates for six-month and one-year loans rose, while the yield for three-month papers dropped. On Monday, Aug. 1, auction of bellwether 91-day Treasury bill rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, dropped to 2.090 percent from 2.273 percent previously. The Bureau...
