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Money sent home by overseas Filipinos (OFs) fell to $2.71 billion in May, dropping to its lowest level in a year and signaling that growth may be losing steam amid renewed deployment risks stemming from the Middle East conflict. The latest Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) data released on...

The central bank is grappling with an “unusual” inflation shock following the historic ₱85 daily minimum wage hike in Metro Manila, though a hyper-aggressive policy response is unlikely, according to Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Eli M. Remolona Jr. On the sidelines of a BSP book...

Consumer prices likely moderated in June on the back of lower food and fuel costs, though sticky underlying pressures are poised to keep the central bank on a hawkish path. Headline inflation may have cooled to as low as six percent last month, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said in a...

Companies scaled back borrowing from Philippine banks’ foreign currency funds in the first quarter, pulling total loans down to $15.44 billion as high global interest rates made dollar debt increasingly expensive. According to the latest data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP),...