THE Philippines' return to a bond index can lead to higher foreign investment flows and a stronger peso, an analyst said.

"This is important because it could bring more foreign money into the Philippines," Metrobank chief economist Nicholas Antonio Mapa said, explaining that when a country is included in these indexes, investors who keep track of them tend to buy bonds from that country.

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