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            <title><![CDATA[Philippines Slows Rate-Hike Pace as Tightening Nears End]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2023 07:01:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Philippines to Shift to Smaller Hike as It Echoes Fed Price Woes]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2023 01:53:41 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Philippine Finance Chief Sees Quarter-Point Rate Hike or Halt]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 03:37:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Philippines’ Core Gauge at 1999-High Shows Stubborn Prices]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 01:01:49 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Philippine Inflation May Stay at a 14-Year High in February]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2023 08:26:53 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Philippine Central Bank Head Sees Space for Slower Rate Hike]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:23:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Marcos Aims to Cool Tensions With China Over Laser Incident]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2023 07:06:32 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>TOKYO, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 09: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. speaks during a joint press conference with Japan&apos;s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, not pictured, following their meeting at the prime minister&apos;s official residence in Tokyo, Japan on February 9, 2023. Marcos, who was inaugurated as the 17th President of the Republic of the Philippines on June 30, 2022, is in Japan for a five-day visit. (Photo by Kimimasa Mayama - Pool/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Philippines Signals More Rate Increases as Indonesia Pauses]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 07:02:06 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Philippine Army Chief Says Military Drills With US Likely Bigger]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 02:42:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Indonesia, Philippine Policy Rate Paths Seen Diverging]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Residential and commercial buildings in Central Jakarta, Indonesia, on Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Indonesia is expected to continue bucking the trend of monetary policy tightening although signs that the government may boost fuel prices could convince the central bank to signal a readiness to act to tame inflation.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stubborn Philippine Inflation Fuels Higher for Longer Rate Bets]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2023 05:10:39 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Risks Mount After Philippines’ Best Growth in Half a Century]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Pedestrians pass a street vendor in Mandaluyong, the Philippines, on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. Philippines inflation rate rose 6.3% from a year earlier in August, the Philippine Statistics Authority said in a statement on its website.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Philippine Central Bank Chief Sees Rate Peaking This Quarter]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2023 07:03:19 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Central Bank Rates Seen Peaking Soon in Southeast Asia]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2023 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Anglers along the Manila Bay waterfront in Manila, the Philippines, on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. The Philippine central bank isn’t likely to pause interest-rate increases at least in the next two meetings as inflation remains far above target, Governor Felipe Medalla said.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Philippines Has Room for Smaller Rate Hikes, Finance Chief Says]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:23:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Quicker Philippine Inflation Opens Door to Sustained Rate Action]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 01:23:34 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Philippine Central Bank Chief Rules Out Rate Pause for Now]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2022 02:13:49 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Philippines Signals More Rate Action After Half-Point Move]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Siegfrid Alegado]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2022 07:02:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[With Philippine Rate Hike a Given, 2023 Outlook Is in Focus]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2022 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Felipe Medalla, governor of the Bangkok Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the Bank of Thailand - Bank of International Settlements Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday, Dec. 2, 2022. The Philippine central bank will debate the size of an interest-rate hike this month with a 25 or 50-basis-point move in the cards, Medalla said.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Philippines Sees Wider Balance of Payments Gap, Lower Reserves]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2022 07:59:20 GMT</pubDate>
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