PHILIPPINE companies are more upbeat with regard to expansion and hiring plans for the fourth quarter, 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 36.1 percent, up from 34.2 percent in the previous quarter.

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