MANILA, Nov. 20 -- U.S. dollar inflows to the Philippines improved, resulting in a USD706 million surplus in the country's balance of payments (BOP) in October 2025, up from USD82 million in the previous month.

Data released by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Wednesday night showed that the surplus in the BOP, which is the difference between a country's total external payments and total inflows in a given period, last October alone lowered the deficit in the first 10 months this year to USD4.6 billion.

BSP traced the improvement in the country's BOP position to the rise in gross international reserves (GIR) to USD110.2 billion as of last October, which, it said, is equivalent to 7.4 months' worth of imports of goods and payments o...