{"id":50833,"date":"2015-05-30T14:50:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T06:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50833"},"modified":"2015-05-30T14:53:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T06:53:05","slug":"firms-optimistic-on-ph-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/30\/firms-optimistic-on-ph-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Firms optimistic on PH economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16115\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Makati-buildings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16115\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Makati-buildings.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas&#8217; Business Expectations survey showed that businesses were slightly more optimistic for the country&#8217;s second quarter economic prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the survey showed a slight improvement in local companies&#8217; confidence driven by strong consumer demand and optimism in the Aquino administration.<\/p>\n<p>Business confidence index increased to 49.2 percent from 45.2 percent recorded during the previous quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The said index was computed through the difference\u00a0between the percentage of respondents that were optimistic and pessimistic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore businesses are optimistic about the country\u2019s economic prospects for the second quarter of the year compared to that in the previous quarter,\u201d the BSP said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>According to Rosabel Guerrero, head of the BSP&#8217;s economic statistics group, the slight improvement is an indication of how sustained the country&#8217;s strong economy is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could say that growth could be sustained but we really can\u2019t say if it would be higher or lower,\u201d she said as quoted in a report for the Philippine Daily Inquirer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas&#8217; Business Expectations survey showed that businesses were slightly more optimistic for the country&#8217;s second &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":16115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}