Philippines Loading date... Loading time...

Tag: widens

  • Trade-in-goods deficit widens to $4.3B in June

    Trade-in-goods deficit widens to $4.3B in June

    THE PHILIPPINES’ trade-in-goods deficit ballooned to $4.3 billion in June as imports and exports contracted, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday.

  • NG budget gap widens in May

    NG budget gap widens in May

    THE NATIONAL Government’s (NG) budget deficit widened in May as spending growth outpaced revenues, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) said. The NG’s budget gap ballooned by 43.1% to P174.9 billion in May from P122.2 billion in the same month a year ago. Month on month, this was a reversal…

  • Philippines’ BoP deficit widens

    Philippines’ BoP deficit widens

    THE COUNTRY’S balance of payments (BoP) deficit widened in April as the government paid back foreign debt and the trade balance remained in a deficit, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said. Data from the central bank showed the BoP position widened to a $639-million deficit in April from the…