Philippines keeps rates steady but price risks require policy to remain tight

MANILA :The Philippine central bank kept its benchmark interest rate steady at 6.50 per cent for a second straight meeting on Thursday as price pressures have started to ease, but said policy would have to stay "sufficiently tight" to bring inflation back to target. All but one of the 24 economists in a Dec.

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