Stock market, bank shares drop on news of Subic shipbuilder’s bankruptcy

The Philippine financial system is strong enough to weather the bankruptcy of a Korean-owned shipbuilder, a senior Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) official said on Friday as bank shares and the stock market plunged on news of a looming multimillion-dollar default — prospectively the biggest in country’s corporate history.

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