Banks and financial markets suspended their operations or shortened their business hours on Monday as typhoon Ruby made its way across the central Philippines from the Eastern Samar coast toward Metro Manila, leaving 21 people dead.

The central bank earlier in the day said it has suspended its clearing operations in line with the government’s precautionary move.

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