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HSBC cuts Philippine growth forecast to 3.6pc this year

The Philippine economy is forecast to grow by just 3.6 percent this year, from an earlier outlook of 4.2 percent, the eurozone continued to slip into a recession and the US economy remained stagnant, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. (HSBC) said in a report.

"The Philippine faces more limited spill-over risks and has some room to adjust policy, although the balance sheet ranking is not the best," HSBC said in its Asean-5 report released on Tuesday.

(Source: philstar.com)