菲律宾总统费迪南德·马科斯表示，当局将竭尽所能捍卫比索，因为该货币本周跌至新的历史低位。
By Ditas B Lopez Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos said authorities will do all they can to defend the peso as the currency weakened to a new record low this week.
马科斯周三在马尼拉对记者说：“我们将继续竭尽所能，确保比索价值不会继续下跌。”前一天，他刚与央行和政府关键官员举行过会议。“人们可以从我们对比索的政策中得到安慰，那就是我们将尽最大可能继续捍卫比索。”“不要恐慌。这是油价上涨、进而导致燃油价格上涨及其对经济影响的结果，”他还说。他表示，该国拥有“健康”的外汇储备。周二，比索跌至每美元64.20比索的历史低位。
“We will continue to do all that we can to make sure that the value of the peso does not continue to go down,” Marcos told reporters in Manila on Wednesday, a day after meeting with central bank and key government officials. “People can take solace in the fact that our policy toward the peso is to continue to defend the peso as hard as we possibly can.”“Don’t panic. It is an effect of rising prices of oil and consequently the rising prices of fuel, and its effect on the economy,” he also said. The nation has “healthy” foreign exchange reserves, he said. The peso fell to a record low of 64.20 per dollar on Tuesday.