Asean Observer

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Benjamin E. Diokno announced today that as of end-September 2019, outstanding loans granted by Foreign Currency Deposit Units (FCDU) of banks stood at US$17.8 billion, higher by US$338 million (or by 1.9 percent) fr…

The country’s international investment position (IIP) registers a lower net liability position of US$33.9 billion as of end-September 2019 from US$39.3 billion in end-June 2019. The 13.7 percent decline in net external liability position resulted from …

Residential real estate prices for various types of housing units, as measured by the Residential Real Estate Price Index (RREPI), rose by 10.4 percent year-on-year (y-o-y) in Q3 2019, higher than the 0.4 percent growth on Q2 2019 and 4.5 percent a yea…

The BSP Department of Economic Research projects December 2019 inflation to settle within the 1.8 � 2.6 percent range. Higher electricity rates and oil prices together with the impact of weather-related disturbances on selected food items are the prima…