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Inflation seen at 6.8 percent in September: Reuters Poll

Reuters
Updated as of Oct 03 11:53 AM

The consumer price index in September was seen to have risen by 6.8 percent, a Reuters poll of 12 economists showed, faster than the 6.4 percent increase reported in August, due to rising global oil prices and crop losses after the region was hit by a super typhoon. Read more »

Doomsayers begin to see cracks in healthy world economy

Douglas Gillison, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 30 08:47 PM

They point not to risky subprime mortgage lending, which sparked the last crisis 10 years ago, but instead to voracious borrowing by corporations and emerging market economies. Read more »

Indonesia hikes rates again to prop up slumping rupiah

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 27 08:28 PM

Indonesia hiked interest rates again Thursday in a bid to shield the slumping rupiah from an emerging market selloff with the unit at levels last seen during the late-nineties Asian financial crisis.   Read more »

US Fed raises rates, sees at least 3 more years of economic growth

Reuters
Posted at Sep 27 03:22 AM

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday, as expected, and forecast three more years of economic growth as the US central bank left its policy for steady rate rises in place. Read more »

Philippine central bank seen hiking key rate by another 50 bps on Thursday: poll

Enrico Dela Cruz, Reuters
Posted at Sep 25 01:30 PM

All but one of 15 analysts surveyed expect the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to raise the reverse repo rate to 4.50 percent Read more »

Expert sees adjusted PH growth forecast

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 24 04:32 PM

The country’s economy could grow 6.5 percent to 7 percent for 2018. Read more »

Peso may breach P54 vs $1 by year-end: HSBC

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 18 07:39 PM

HSBC revised its year-end peso forecast to P54.50 from P52. Read more »

Utang sa credit card, bangko, posibleng tumaas ang interes

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 22 12:25 AM

May basehan ang mga bangko ngayon upang magtaas din ng kanilang interes sa credit card at iba pang pautang. Read more »

Indonesia hikes rates again to reverse rupiah slump

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 30 06:23 PM

Indonesia's central bank hiked its key interest rate Wednesday for the second time this month to prop up the rupiah after it slumped to its lowest level in three years. Read more »

US stocks, dollar fall as Fed lifts interest rates

John Biers, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 22 06:49 AM

The dollar tumbled Wednesday while US stocks dipped after the Federal Reserve lifted interest rates but suggested it would not speed up the pace of additional hikes in 2018. Read more »

Interes sa pautang sa pabahay, ibinaba ng Pag-IBIG

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 01 08:17 PM

Ayon sa Pag-IBIG, ibinaba nila ang interes para lalo pang mahikayat ang mga Pilipino na kumuha ng sariling bahay sa pamamagitan ng pautang ng ahensiya. Read more »

Could the 'curve' be warning of a US recession?

Ali Bekhtaoui , Agence France Presse
Posted at Dec 24 03:08 PM

The US economy may be basking in the warm glow of solid growth, but economists are nervously eyeing a trend in the bond market that could spell stormy weather ahead. Read more »

Bangko Sentral keeps key rate unchanged at 3 pct

Reuters
Updated as of Nov 09 08:54 PM

The Philippine central bank maintained its benchmark interest rate at 3.0 percent on Thursday, as expected. Read more »

Fed's 'Great Unwinding' lifts dollar, yields and bank stocks

Marc Jones, Reuters
Posted at Sep 21 06:48 PM

Signals the Federal Reserve will hike U.S. interest rates again this year and begin the 'Great Unwinding' of a decade of aggressive stimulus, drove the dollar to a two-month high versus the yen on Thursday and sent bonds and commodities lower. Read more »

European Central Bank keeps key interest rates unchanged

Agence France Presse
Posted at Sep 07 08:53 PM

The European Central Bank kept key interest rates and its mass bond-buying program unchanged Thursday, as markets braced for chief Mario Draghi to signal an exit from the era of cheap money. Read more »

Bangko Sentral keeps rates steady, as expected

Reuters
Updated as of Aug 10 06:24 PM

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas left its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Thursday, as expected, with inflation not a concern even as the economy expands at a solid pace this year. Read more »

Alok ng Pag-IBIG: Interes sa perang ihuhulog

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 03 08:17 PM

Sa ilalim ng Modified Pag-ibig 2 Program, puwedeng mag-impok ang miyembro ng minimum na P500 kada buwan sa loob ng limang taon, at hindi bababa sa 5% kada taon ang interes na kikitain nito.  Read more »

Bangko Sentral leaves rates unchanged

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 22 08:52 PM

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas kept interest rates unchanged as expected saying inflation remains well within the cental bank's target range.   Read more »

Bank of England stifles UK rate hike talk

David Milliken, Reuters
Posted at Jun 20 09:16 PM

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney doused speculation that he might soon back higher interest rates, telling bankers on Tuesday that he first wanted to see how the economy coped with Brexit talks in coming months. Read more »

Fed ignoring signs of weakness in US economy: analyst

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 15 03:31 PM

The US Federal Reserve is ignoring signs of weakness in the American econonomy, according to an economist who used to work at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  Read more »