PHILIPPINE companies are less optimistic with regard to expansion and hiring for the first quarter of next year, data from a Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) survey showed.

Results of the recently released Business Expectation Survey (BES) put the confidence index (CI) of companies with expansion plans at 36 percent, marginally down from 36.1 percent in the previous quarter.

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