MANILA -Companies are expecting even better prospects in the second quarter of 2023 as well as the next nine months as they see the benefits of a fully reopened economy ripening, the latest quarterly Business Expectations Survey (BES) of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) shows. The BES covered 1,554 firms—including 582 that are based in Metro Manila—drawn at random from the list of Top 7,000 Corporations ranked based on total assets in 2016-2017 from the Bureau van Dijk database. The survey was conducted from Jan.

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