* End-Oct forex reserves at record $43.18 bln * Forex reserves can cover 8.0 months worth of imports * Equal to 9.1 times short-term foreign debt MANILA, Nov 6 - The Philippine central bank released...
MANILA, Nov 5 - The Philippines has the option to buy another 62,500 tonnes of rice over the next six months at prices offered during Wednesday's state tender for 250,000 tonnes, a government official said...
MANILA, Nov 5 - The Philippine central bank is likely to keep interest rates unchanged at a meeting on Thursday despite a spike in inflation to a five-month high in October, analysts said. Central bank...
* Annual inflation at 1.6 pct in Oct vs 0.7 pct in Sept * Data in line with market, upper end of c. bank range MANILA, Nov 5 - The Philippine statistics office released the...
MANILA, Nov 4 - The Philippines may exceed its budget deficit goal this year of 250 billion pesos ($5.2 billion) due to spending related to typhoon reconstruction and despite successful sales of assets, the finance...
MANILA, Nov 2 - The Philippines looks certain to blow past its budget deficit target this year after the gap swelled to 95 percent of the total in the first nine months. Still, the Finance...
MANILA, Oct 26 - The Philippines, the world's biggest rice buyer, is currently in talks to purchase 200,000 tonnes rice from Thailand under a government-to-government (G-to-G) deal, a senior state official said on Monday. "The...
MANILA, Oct 26 - A group of Philippine feedmillers bought a total 133,000 tonnes of feedwheat, mostly from Ukraine, at $210 per tonne, cost and freight, an industry official said on Monday. The first shipment...
* Thailand wants better tariff deal from the Philippines * Rice tariffs due to be halved by January under ASEAN pact * Manila insists rice is on sensitive list, offers quota HUA HIN, Thailand, Oct...
MANILA, Oct 23 - The Philippines can postpone a planned sale of Samurai bonds to next year despite earlier plans to issue the Japanese government-backed bonds before the end of 2009, Finance Secretary Margarito Teves...