Philippine companies plan to hire more workers in the last three months of the year while keeping a lid on expansions, results of the central bank’s Third Quarter Business Expectations Survey (BES) showed.

Data released by Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas on Friday said showed the confidence index of firms with expansion plans for the next quarter at 32.8 percent, down from 34.6 percent three months earlier.

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