Philippine January-November fiscal deficit exceeds 200 bln pesos

Xinhua News Agency;  December 20, 2002 ;     222 words ......past 11 months was 506.6 billion pesos (9. 56 billion dollars), and expenditures was 707.2 billion...was back down to just 13 billion pesos (245 million dollars) from 21.1 billion pesos (398 million dollars) in October. Revenue collections...

Philippines likely to borrow 20 bln pesos for 2003

Xinhua News Agency;  October 8, 2002 ;     227 words ......deficit of 142.1 billion pesos (2.69 billion dollars) for 2003. Currently, the...government is issuing 9-billion-pesos (170 million dollars) worth of T-bills every...debt reached 2.657 trillion pesos (50.3 billion dollars), of which, domestic debt...

Arroyo agrees to increase 2003 budget to 804 billion pesos

Xinhua News Agency;  August 13, 2002 ;     321 words ......national budget is 23.2 billion pesos (446 million dollars) more than that for that...budget of 800. 7 billion pesos (15.4 billion dollars). With the increase in next...from proposed 138 billion pesos (2.65 billion dollars) to 142.1 billion pesos...

Philippine mobile telecom giant earns 3.1 bln pesos in 1st half

Xinhua News Agency;  August 7, 2002 ;     265 words ......review reached 11.2 billion pesos (2. 15 billion dollars), with an EBITDA margin improving...spent a total of 11.1 billion pesos (2.13 billion dollars) in capital expenditures for...equity stood at 47.3 billion pesos (909 million dollars).

Philippine Airlines Posts 16.2M Pesos Profit in May

Xinhua English Newswire;  July 21, 1999 ;     194 words ......amounted to 2.24 billion pesos (56 million dollars) in May, while total expenses amounted to 1.74 billion pesos (43.5 million dollars). As a result, PAL's income...for May of 503.8 million pesos (12.6 million dollars) was the highest ever achieved...

Philippine Deficit Soars to 83 Mln Pesos in January-April

Xinhua News Agency;  June 6, 2002 ;     202 words ......half was only 78.26 billion pesos (1.63 billion dollars). The total expenditure...added up to 263.9 billion pesos (5.28 billion dollars) was attributed to the practice...deficit ceiling of 130 billion pesos (2.6 billion dollars) for the year, stressing...

Argentines indignant over government talk of switching dollar savings into...

AP Worldstream;  January 21, 2002 ;     552 words ......complain. I deposited dollars _ dlrs 40,000 worth...giving me devalued pesos. This is a complete...lose billions of dollars as a result of the...dollar deposits to pesos could significantly...switching his hard-earned dollars to pesos and blamed politicans...

Microsoft invests Pesos$50mil.

South American Business Information;  August 15, 2002 ;     272 words ......its average turnover in dollars, although in Pesos turnover will increase...a 66% drop in sales in dollars, while in Pesos it will register a 25...in relation to sales in Pesos in 2001, although in dollars the drop will be 25%. Copyright...

Philippines' Debts Surge to 1.5 Trillion Pesos

Xinhua English Newswire;  December 26, 1997 ;     161 words ......year from 1.203 trillion pesos (30 billion dollars) a month earlier, an increase of 300 billion pesos (7.5 billion dollars) just in a month due to the...government to shell out more pesos to buy dollars needed to service the loans...

Philippine full year deficit likely to be below 202 bln pesos

Xinhua News Agency;  June 9, 2003 ;     190 words ......the year added up to 255.3 billion pesos (4.79 billion dollars), about 14.1 percent above the target...amounted to between 71.46 billion pesos (1.34 billion dollars) and 71.96 billion pesos (1.35 billion dollars). Observing such a trend, the DBCC...

Philippine Budget Deficit Swells to 760 Mln Pesos

Xinhua News Agency;  May 8, 2001 ;     131 words ......pesos (20 million U.S. dollars) to 38 billion pesos (760 million dollars) for the first four...year was 37 billion pesos (740 million dollars), the ABS-CBN news...deficit of 136 billion pesos (2.72 billion dollars) from the two-year...

Philippines budget deficit hits 41.5 bln pesos in 10 months

Xinhua News Agency;  November 20, 2007 ;     124 words ......reached 41.58 billion pesos (966.97 million U.S. dollars) in the first ten months...deficit of 63 billion pesos (1.47 billion U.S. dollars), before it moves to...deficit of only 1.5 billion pesos (34.9 million U.S. dollars), down from the projected...

Dollars Stretch Further in Mexico, As Long as You're Paying in Pesos

Chicago Sun-Times;  February 12, 1995 ;     430 words ......something you pay for locally in pesos, the price is at least 35...dollar could be traded for 3.6 pesos. Now it brings about 5.3 pesos, despite international efforts...Prices there are set in dollars at the beginning of the season...Some hotels demand payment in dollars even when purchasing ...

Arroyo sets 2.5 bln pesos for automation in election

Xinhua News Agency;  January 25, 2003 ;     223 words ......release of 2.5 billion pesos (46.64 million US dollars) for implementation of...already released 1.8 billion pesos (33.58 million dollars) for the automation of...balance of 700 million pesos (13. 06 million dollars) to complete the fund...

Appeals court says forced conversion of Argentina's dollar bank accounts...

AP Worldstream;  October 28, 2002 ;     173 words ......accounts in Argentina from dollars to pesos. The ruling was the latest...employers to a severance pay in dollars. She initiated the court case after being paid in pesos following the January devaluation...accounts converted back into dollars as courts have repeatedly...deposits be converted ...