* 2020 Schedule of Monetary Policy Meetings was based on the preliminary 2020 FOMC meetings and preliminary release dates of the NSCB’s National Income Accounts, PSA’s inflation and DES data on M3 (Annex A).
1 Inflation Report press conference scheduled on the last Friday of January (31 January 2020) will be moved a week earlier (24 January 2020) due to a scheduled AC meeting on 31 January 2020 and MB meeting on 6 February 2020.
2 9 week-interval from the previous AC meeting (13 March 2020). Regular Holidays on 9 April 2020 (Araw ng Kagitingan and Maundy Thursday); 10 April 2020 (Good Friday); and 11 April 2020 (Black Saturday).
3 Inflation Report press conference scheduled on the last Friday of July (31 July 2020) will be moved a week earlier (24 July 2020) due to a scheduled AC meeting on 14 August 2020 and MB meeting on 20 August 2020, and 31 July 2020 (Eid al-Adha) may be declared a holiday.