The central bank on Thursday said it was phasing out liquidity-enhancing measures as part of a continuing move to tighten monetary policy to control money in the financial system amid the recovering economy.
The policy-making Monetary Board cut its budget for short-term loans to banks under its rediscount facility by a third to P40 billion, [...]

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