Foreign portfolio investments to the Philippines, also known as “hot money,” recorded an inflow of $2.6 billion in the month of September because of the resurgence of investor confidence, data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed on Thursday.

The BSP attributed the higher investments inflow to the positive economic data from China, and the easing geopolitical tensions between the United States and Syria. The data showed that inflows in September more than doubled the $1-billion inflows in August.

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