MANILA: The Philippine central bank raised its key interest rate for the first time since 2018 to combat South-East Asia’s second-fastest inflation.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) increased the benchmark rate by 25 basis points to 2.25%, it said in a statement yesterday, as forecast by 14 of 21 economists in a Bloomberg survey. The rest forecast no change.
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