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  • Dollar reserves slip to $104.7 billion in June

    THE PHILIPPINES’ gross international reserves (GIR) dipped by 0.3% month on month in June, which the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) governor partly attributed to its intervention in the foreign exchange market amid the peso’s continued depreciation against the US dollar. Preliminary data from the BSP showed gross dollar reserves…

  • EU auditors say lobbyists can easily slip under bloc’s radar

    BRUSSELS – Lobbyists can easily bypass EU transparency rules to influence policy, the 27-nation bloc’s auditors said on Wednesday. The European Court of Auditors’ (ECA) report comes as European Union institutions discuss a new Ethics Body to guide the conduct of officials and ahead of a planned review of the bloc’s transparency register of lobbyists. That…