Not Your Typical Unemployment-Inflation Tradeoff
Inflation rising (Feb: 3.9%YoY) in concert with the jobless rate edging down to 5.3% (Jan labor survey) depicted an active inflation-unemployment...
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New CPI Series Sustains Inflation Upside in Feb but Less than 4%
Out with the old; in with the new CPIFeb inflation based on the new CPI (2012 base year) downplayed looming risk of an imminent policy rate hike...
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2017 Budget Deficit of 2.2% of GDP Vs 3% Target: Missing a Strong Fiscal Stimulus
Despite strong assurances of fiscal expenditures, where’s the fiscal impulse? The 2017 national government’s budget deficit stood at Php350.6bn or...
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Corporate Earnings in Sync With Services GDP?
Market watchers will once again attempt to mine 4Q17 corporate earnings that’s currently unraveling, for the financial ‘uppers and downers’ while...
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Rate Corridor Intact Despite Inflation's Surge
Making sense of it allAfter keeping its interest rate corridor intact with the overnight RRP, deposit and lending rates unchanged in the recent...
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