BUSINESSES in the Philippines plan to hire fewer employees despite their stronger expansion plans for the third quarter of 2019, a Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) survey found.

Results of the recently released Business Expectation Survey (BES) put the confidence index (CI) of companies with expansion plans at 33.5 percent, up from 33.2 percent in the previous quarter.

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