<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title><![CDATA[Karl Lester M Yap - Team Leader]]></title><description><![CDATA[Karl Lester M Yap - Team Leader]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AOmKV58n2H8/karl-lester-m-yap</link><image><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/feeds/static/images/bloomberg_logo_black.png</url><title>Karl Lester M Yap - Team Leader</title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AOmKV58n2H8/karl-lester-m-yap</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 21:13:40 GMT</lastBuildDate><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright 2025 BLOOMBERG L.P. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><atom:link href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AOmKV58n2H8/karl-lester-m-yap.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Korean Won Up on Report US Wants Currency Appreciation in Talks]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-30/korean-won-up-on-report-us-wants-currency-appreciation-in-talks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-30/korean-won-up-on-report-us-wants-currency-appreciation-in-talks</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karl Lester M Yap]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:29:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vietnamese Dong Drops to Record Low as Asian Currencies Weaken]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-19/vnd-usd-vietnamese-dong-drops-to-record-low-as-asian-currencies-weakens</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-19/vnd-usd-vietnamese-dong-drops-to-record-low-as-asian-currencies-weakens</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karl Lester M Yap]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 03:14:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philippines Signals It Won’t Intervene to Cap Peso Strength]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-07/philippines-signals-it-won-t-intervene-to-cap-peso-strength</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-07/philippines-signals-it-won-t-intervene-to-cap-peso-strength</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Manolo Serapio Jr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 01:11:45 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i.urEugkLKHQ/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i.urEugkLKHQ/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The portraits of former Philippines&apos; Acting President José Abad Santos, from left, and former Philippines&apos; Presidents Corazon Aquino, Manuel A. 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The Philippine peso weakened a fifth straight week, prompting the central bank to have reactivated a hedging program first introduced during the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to support the peso.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vietnam Dong Falls to Record Low on Trump Tariff Concerns]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-11/vietnam-dong-declines-to-record-low-against-us-dollar</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-11/vietnam-dong-declines-to-record-low-against-us-dollar</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karl Lester M Yap]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:18:37 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iUo6I5vLeBDY/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iUo6I5vLeBDY/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A vendor counts Vietnamese dong banknotes at Con Market in Da Nang, Vietnam. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philippine Peso Weakens Toward Record Low on Rate Cut Bets]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-18/usd-php-philippine-peso-weakens-toward-record-low-as-bsp-set-to-cut-rates</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-18/usd-php-philippine-peso-weakens-toward-record-low-as-bsp-set-to-cut-rates</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karl Lester M Yap]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 03:01:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moody’s Places Sri Lanka on Review for Credit Rating Upgrade]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-28/moody-s-places-sri-lanka-on-review-for-credit-rating-upgrade</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-28/moody-s-places-sri-lanka-on-review-for-credit-rating-upgrade</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karl Lester M Yap]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 04:27:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sri Lanka Kicks Off $12.6 Billion Distressed Debt Exchange]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-26/sri-lanka-to-swap-defaulted-dollar-debt-for-new-bonds</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-26/sri-lanka-to-swap-defaulted-dollar-debt-for-new-bonds</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karl Lester M Yap]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 05:16:55 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i1ImPzrnw8xQ/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i1ImPzrnw8xQ/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Vehicles travel along a road in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Sri Lanka is scheduled to announce its consumer price index figures on April 28.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philippine Peso Declines to Record Low as Rate Outlook in Focus]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-21/php-usd-philippine-peso-close-to-breaching-record-low</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-21/php-usd-philippine-peso-close-to-breaching-record-low</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karl Lester M Yap]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 04:08:35 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iHOxmxFAyqpY/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iHOxmxFAyqpY/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description/></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philippines on Alert as Storm Toraji Intensifies in 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Typhoon]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-29/storm-krathon-heads-for-philippines-with-chance-of-super-typhoon</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-29/storm-krathon-heads-for-philippines-with-chance-of-super-typhoon</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karl Lester M Yap]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 01:52:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emerging-Market Currencies Under Threat as Trump Odds Rise]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-15/emerging-market-currencies-under-threat-as-trump-odds-rise</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-15/emerging-market-currencies-under-threat-as-trump-odds-rise</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karl Lester M Yap]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2024 08:19:10 GMT</pubDate><media:content 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Level]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-21/philippine-peso-declines-past-key-58-level-against-dollar</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-21/philippine-peso-declines-past-key-58-level-against-dollar</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karl Lester M Yap]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 01:51:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marcos Says Philippines Probing China’s Alleged Phone Call Tape]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-19/marcos-says-philippines-probing-china-s-alleged-phone-call-tape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-19/marcos-says-philippines-probing-china-s-alleged-phone-call-tape</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karl Lester M Yap]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 01:53:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philippines to Buy Five Patrol Boats From Japan Amid Sea 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Both China and the Philippines lay claims over the shoal while at least three other neighbors also claim the larger Spratly Islands chain it nestles in.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philippine Peso Drops Most in Asia as Calls for Rate Cut Build]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-13/philippine-peso-drops-most-in-asia-as-calls-for-rate-cut-build</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-13/philippine-peso-drops-most-in-asia-as-calls-for-rate-cut-build</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karl Lester M Yap]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 05:44:38 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ii1QRDwEK6MU/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ii1QRDwEK6MU/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A customer hands over a one thousand Philippine peso banknote at the Mandaue City Public Market in Cebu. 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