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Philippines to keep rates on hold this year

Today’s decision by the central bank in the Philippines (BSP) to keep its main policy rate on hold at 3.0% had been widely expected. But while the consensus among analysts is that the BSP will hike rates twice this year, we continue to think that rates will be left unchanged in 2017.

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