Strong domestic demand and economic resilience are expected to bolster growth in several Asia countries such as the ...

Inflation rate in the Philippines could exceed 5 percent if global oil benchmarks, particularly Dubai crude, reach $100 per ...

The rate cut was in line with market expectations, as benign domestic inflation and headwinds from tariffs and global ...

Bohol Governor Erico Aristotle Aumentado, the chairperson of the Regional Development Council (RDC) in Central Visayas, ...

Inflation cooled to 2.1 percent in February 2025, from 2.9 percent in January 2025 and 3.4 percent in February 2024. It is also the lowest recorded inflation rate since September 2024’s 1.9 percent.

The cost of the Philippines’ main staple, rice, continued its deceleration streak for the second straight month in February 2025 amid the continuous effects of declining global prices, reduction in ...

At a press briefing, National Statistician and PSA chief Claire Dennis Mapa said inflation —which measures the rate of increase in the prices of goods and services—quickened to 3.7% in March 2024 from ...

US inflation rose 3.2% in February ... The Fed has hiked the benchmark federal funds rate 11 times in 2022 and 2023, landing on its current 22-year high, between 5.25% and 5.5%, ...

MANILA: Philippine inflation slowed to its weakest in nearly two years in December but full-year readings remained outside the central bank's target zone, diminishing chances of near-term rate cuts.

This is the slowest inflation print for 2023 and also the lowest since February 2022 when it clocked in at 3%. December's inflation print fell within the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas' (BSP) forecast ...

MANILA :The Philippine economy is on track to expand this year, but probably at a slower clip, as stubbornly high inflation may warrant a "higher-for-longer policy rate path," the International ...

As a result, in February 2023 the inflation rate on food items was still very high at 10.8 percent and 8.6 percent on electricity and fuel. These have started to come down in recent months, with ...