The Department of Finance (DOF) remained confident that the national government’s debt ratio would decline during the Marcos administration despite its recent uptick in the third-quarter. Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno said the government’s ability to pay its debts continues to improve...
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...
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,...
