THE INCREASE in prices of widely used goods likely picked up further last month to the fastest pace in over two years on the back of higher oil prices and a fresh hike in “sin” taxes, economists said in a BusinessWorld poll, even as they agreed that this development was unlikely to prod the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to adjust policy rates this week. Read the full story.

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