Benchmark yields moved sideways amid expectations of higher interest rates following the US Federal Reserve’s decision to begin its stimulus tapering. At Monday's auction, Nov. 29, the 91-day Treasury bill rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, slightly went down to 1.164 percent from...
Gov’t borrows P360 billion from small investors By Chino S. Leyco The Duterte government completed its borrowing from small investors through the sale of retail Treasury bonds (RTB), the Bureau of the Treasury announced. In a statement, Monday, Nov. 29, the Treasury said the government sold...
The Bureau of the Treasury has scaled down its domestic borrowing program for December due to strong demand for the ongoing retail bond offering and fewer working days. National Treasurer Rosalia V. de Leon said on Thursday, Nov. 25, that the national government plans to borrow only P70 billion...
Bert de Leon Seasoned director Bert de Leon has passed away. There are no details yet regarding the actual cause but he has endured several illnesses of late including a bout with COVID-19. Netizens wrote messages of condolences and sympathy on his Facebook today, Nov. 21. Noli de Castro daughter,...
Seen as one of today’s legends in the local entertainment industry, veteran television director Bert de Leon, sadly, passed away. Described by his colleagues as someone who was easy to work with, Bert was best known for being the former director of GMA’s long-running gag show “Bubble Gang,”...
Melissa shares her journey and inspires others with her spirituality Melissa de Leon-Joseph is known to many as a versatile actress and host of popular TV programs in the early 2000s. In 2005, her life took a dramatic turn. Melissa discovered a lump in her breast. Her doctor removed the lump, which...
Time flies fast, especially when you're a parent. Such is the case of new parents Mccoy de Leon and Elisse Joson who became parents recently to their baby girl Felize. Parents Elisse and Mccoy celebrate seven months of parenthood Now celebrating their seventh month as parents, they threw an...
Small Filipino savers can now take a piece of the government's latest Retail Treasury Bond (RTB) sale. Bureau of the Treasury office The Bureau of the Treasury has launched an offering of five-and-a-half-year RTBs that fetched a coupon rate of 4.625 percent. The offer period runs until Nov. 26,...
Mc Coy De Leon as teen Isko Domagoso “Yorme: The Isko Domagoso Story” with all the songs and music written, and the movie, by director Joven Tan is all set to bring to the silver screen, the aspirational and inspirational life of Francisco Domagoso, popularly known as Isko Moreno. Director...
Benchmark interest rates increase as investors expect the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will keep its key policy rates steady. At Monday's auction Nov. 15, the yields on short-term government debt papers, which banks use in pricing their loans, went up, with the returns on the 91-day Treasury...
Speculation about a possible policy rate adjustment and higher full-year inflation pushed up the yield for long-term Philippine debt papers. At a Bureau of the Treasury auction on Tuesday, Nov. 9, the interest rate for the 10-year Treasury bond went up to 5.130 percent from 4.468 percent last...
Banks pressed for an increase in Philippine benchmark interest rates for short-term loans as the government mulls borrowing from small investors before the end of the year through the sale of retail Treasury bonds (RTB). At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on Nov. 8, the bellwether 91-day T-bill...
