Monetary authorities will likely move to relax policy beginning May via interest rate cuts that will total 100 basis points this year, a banking giant said.

“We now expect Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to respond with policy rate cuts starting in May 2019, partially reversing last year’s hikes,” Standard Chartered Bank said in a report released late last week.

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