Net foreign portfolio investments grew 120 percent year-on-year to $1.2 billion as of Jan. 25, 2013, data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed over the weekend.
For nearly the same period last year (Jan. 1 to 27, 2012), net foreign portfolio investments in the country amounted to $541.59 million.
The actual total amount for January is expected to be higher as the present numbers do not include the last four days of the month (Jan. 20 to 31).
Foreign portfolio investments are investments made by foreign investors in a country’s stock market, government securities and money market.
Inflows increased 119 percent to $2.369 billion, but total outflows also grew by 118 percent to $1.178 billion.
The January figure was also a 460-percent improvement from the previous month, with net foreign portfolio investments in December 2012 reaching only $212.65 million. Inflows grew 36 percent from $1.739 billion while outflows dropped by 23 percent from $1.527 billion.
Total registered investments amounted to $18.5 billion in 2012, 12 percent higher from the year before, as the Philippines’ macroeconomic fundamentals caused investor confidence to grow. Investors from the UK, the US, Singapore, Hong Kong and Luxembourg were the main source of foreign investment funds. — BM, GMA News
July 2025
Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines
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