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INFLATION could settle below the official full-year target this quarter as food and oil prices ease, BSP Governor Benjamin E. Diokno told reporters on Tuesday, citing “base effects” due to multi-year-high rates last year.

THE BANGKO SENTRAL ng Pilipinas (BSP) said inflation settled at the midpoint of its target band in the second quarter, driven by improved domestic food supply conditions.

INFLATION eased in June to post its slowest reading in almost two years, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Friday, giving more room for the central bank to continue loosening monetary policy.

HEADLINE INFLATION this month — to be reported on July 5 — likely slowed from a year ago and from May amid lower rice prices, an electricity rate reduction and a stronger peso that made imports cheaper, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Department of Economic Research said in an e-mail on Friday.

Consumer spending has traditionally been the driving force behind the growth of the Philippine economy in recent years, with households contributing majority of aggregate...

THE FURTHER EASING in domestic inflation buoyed investor sentiment for much of the first quarter this year even as upside risks — mostly from the external front — remain.

BANK ECONOMISTS expect inflation to remain broadly within target this year and until 2021 amid downward pressures to the outlook, according to results of a recent central bank survey.

INFLATION RISKS are seen “evenly balanced” this year, even with the rise in prices expected to settle firmly within the government’s target, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said.

INFLATION further eased for the fifth straight month in March, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported, lending support to the central bank’s view that price increases will ease this year even as officials signaled caution against swift plans to cut policy rates.

THE OVERALL INCREASE in prices of widely used goods likely eased further this month as lower prices of rice and other produce offset increases of fuel and electricity costs, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Department of Economic Research announced on Friday.

FEDERAL RESERVE officials say they’re willing to tolerate an overshoot of their inflation goal. If the opposite happens, the plan is less clear.

The increase in the prices of widely used goods continued to ease in February, the government reported this morning. Preliminary data from the Philippine Statistics...

STATE ECONOMIC MANAGERS are keeping their 2-4% inflation target until 2022, as the overall increase in prices of widely used goods is expected to moderate further.

INFLATION, as experienced by low-income households, was lower in January as prices of food and utilities eased further, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Friday.

INFLATION continued to decelerate in January, the government reported this morning.

AT A TIME when inflation targets have eluded the central banks of major emerging markets like Turkey and Argentina, Jamaica has turned to an unorthodox method of communicating its consumer price policy: reggae.

LOWER INFLATION will trigger a similar decline in bond yields this year, analysts at First Metro Investment Corp. (FMIC) said, together with expected rate cuts from the central bank.

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THE OVERALL year-on-year increase in prices of widely used goods eased for the second straight month in December by its slowest pace in seven months, the Philippine Statistics Authority reported on Friday, giving the central bank room to consider the impact of its next monetary policy moves on economic growth.

INFLATION likely eased further in December, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said, with the rate possibly settling at the five percent level given lower fuel and rice prices.

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THE CENTRAL BANK may now proceed with planned cuts in bank reserves next year as inflation is sure to go down, bank analysts said.

INFLATION will likely remain above target in 2019, a global bank said, which will prompt further rate hikes from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to keep local yields competitive.

INFLATION, as experienced by low income households, stood at 9.5% in October, driven by sharp price upticks in food and utilities, the government reported on Friday.

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INFLATIONARY PRESSURES from election-related spending in 2019 will likely be muted, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said.

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BANK ECONOMISTS expect inflation to remain elevated during the last three months of 2018, with some noting that prices may surge faster by yearend.

INFLATION could “revert more quickly” to below four percent next year given non-monetary interventions to boost food supply coupled with sound policy actions from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), a senior official said.

INFLATION surged anew in September to a fresh nine-year high as the strong typhoon which hit last month worsened supply issues for rice and other crops, spurring calls for further interest rate hikes from the central bank.

THE BANGKO Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) expects inflation to have further accelerated in September, due to higher oil and food prices, it said in a statement on Friday.

THE National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) backed the declaration of a state of calamity in regions affected by typhoon Ompong, as it would allow authorities to impose price ceilings on basic goods to help soften inflation in hard-hit areas.

ECONOMIC managers said current inflationary conditions do not amount to a “major” crisis and added that they are confident that an Executive Order expected in the next few weeks will stabilize prices by next month.

FILIPINOS queuing for hours to buy cheap rice from the government. Families eating fewer meals a day to save money. Locals venting their anger against President Rodrigo R. Duterte on social media.

THE business lobby said inflation can be kept in check with changes to agricultural policy, particularly with long-term reforms to address systemic production shortfalls in the sugar, rice and fishing industries.

INFLATION in health care costs will remain in the double digits in 2018, driven by non-communicable diseases, an international employee benefits firm said.

INFLATION is seen to remain above 6% until October, bolstering expectations of more rate hikes from the central bank, economists from Nomura said.

PHILIPPINE stocks and the peso led declines in Asia after Wednesday’s jump in inflation coincided with an intensifying emerging-market (EM) sell-off, and Jefferies Hong Kong Ltd. downgraded the nation’s equities.

SENATORS on Thursday called on the government to implement measures to counter inflation, which rose to 6.4% in August.

Financial services firm Credit Suisse said the local central bank needs to hike its interest rates by 50 basis points (bp) to dampen inflation...

HEADLINE INFLATION in August caught state economic managers and financial markets by surprise, shooting up to its fastest clip in almost a decade, according to official data the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released on Wednesday.

The peso weakened against the dollar to its fresh 12-year low on Wednesday, Sept. 5, following the faster-than-expected August inflation print. The local currency ended...

Inflation in August shot up to its fastest pace in almost a decade, according to the government's latest data released this morning. Data from the...