The central bank is comfortable with the current peso-dollar exchange rate even though the local currency fell anew against the greenback on the last trading day of the week.

The Philippine currency slipped by 0.44 percent or 22 centavos to P49.78 to $1, hitting a new eight-year low since trading at P49.83:$1 on Nov. 24, 2008.

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