Philippine benchmark interest rates for short-term loans rose prompting the Bureau of the Treasury to only borrow partially. On Monday, Sept. 12, auction of Treasury bills, the government rejected all bids for three-month IOUs. Likewise, the Treasury bureau failed to borrow through the sale of...
Debt payments by the national government went up in July due to higher amortization, data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed. The national government's debt servicing reached P156.2 billion in July this year, jumping by 158 percent compared with P60.54 billion paid out in the same month last...
The Bureau of the Treasury has scaled down its domestic borrowing program for September. According to an online advisory released on Monday, Aug. 30, the Treasury said it plans to borrow P200 billion from local creditors next month, lower compared with the P215 billion program in August. The bureau...
The national government, during President Marcos’ first month in office, incurred a much lower budget deficit owing to strong tax collections and slower spending, data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed. The Treasury bureau reported on Friday, Aug. 26, that the Marcos administration’s...
The Bureau of the Treasury clarified that the principal debt payment earmarked by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) next year is not part of President Marcos’ proposed national budget. National Treasurer Rosalia V. De Leon said on Tuesday, Aug. 23, that budget for principal payment,...
Small Filipino savers wanting to take a piece of President Marcos’ first retail Treasury bond (RTB) sale would earn higher interest rates than prevailing market rates. The Bureau of the Treasury has launched on Tuesday, Aug. 23, the government’s new 5.5-year RTB, raising an initial P162.72...
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,...
