THE Philippines incurred a deeper balance of payments (BoP) deficit of $678 million in July, the widest gap in eight months on account of foreign exchange operations of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and national government debt payments.

An analyst said the full-year payments balance could exceed the central bank forecast given the latest data.

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