Borrowings of the national government rose last October due to President Marcos’ maiden issuance of offshore commercial bonds, data from the Bureau of the Treasury revealed. Gross financing of the Marcos administration stood at P182.42 billion in October this year, higher by 25 percent compared...
Security Bank Corporation has been recognized by the Bureau of Treasury (BTr) again recognized as a Market Maker for 2023 under the enhanced Government Securities Eligible Dealers (GSED) program. In a statement, the bank said the recognition is given in line with the Bank’s continued efforts to...
Benchmark yields for short-term loans moved sideways, prompting the Bureau of the Treasury to partially borrow. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on Nov. 28, the bellwether 91-day Treasury bill rate dropped to 4.205 percent from 4.375 percent last week. This, however, is higher than the...
The national government’s budget deficit rose by more than half in October due to higher public spending that outpaced its strong revenue growth, the Bureau of the Treasury reported. The Treasury bureau said on Friday, Nov. 25, that the Marcos administration incurred a P99.1 billion fiscal...
Domestic borrowing program of the Marcos administration for December dropped due to fewer workweeks during holiday season. Based on the Treasury advisory on Thursday, Nov. 24, the December financing plan of the Bureau of the Treasury declined by 32 percent to P135 billion from P215 billion in the...
Benchmark yields for short-term loans moved sideways, prompting the Bureau of the Treasury to partially borrow. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on Nov. 21, the bellwether 91-day Treasury bill rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, dropped to 4.375 percent from 4.464 percent last week....
The benchmark interest rate on debt falling due in almost 12 years rose at an auction of the government IOUs at the Bureau of the Treasury on Tuesday, Nov. 15. The interest rate of the 25-year IOUs, with a remaining life of 11 years and nine months, fetched 8.168 percent, lower than the original...
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...
Seeking to find more ways for underprivileged Filipino students to afford college education, the House Committee on Higher and Technical Education on Monday, Nov. 14, approved a measure that would require the government to issue educational bonds to benefit underprivileged Filipino college...
The country's debt ratio climbed to a 17-year high in the third-quarter this year as new government loans continued to pile up, data from the Bureau of the Treasury revealed. As of September 2022, the outstanding obligations of the national government as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) hit...
Benchmark interest rates for short-term loans rose anew, forcing the national government reduced its borrowing ceiling. At Monday's auction of short-term IOUs, the Bureau of the Treasury awarded only P6.7 billion of debt papers, less than half of its P15 billion program for the week. National...
The Marcos administration is feeling the pinch of the strengthening US dollar as the Bureau of the Treasury blamed the weak peso as one of the culprits for the national government’s ballooning debts. On Thursday, Nov. 3, the Treasury bureau reported that as of September, the outstanding debt of...
