WALTERMART Supermarket will open at least four stores in 2020 to reach more customers in the provinces.

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MONEY SUPPLY growth quickened in January following the central bank’s easing stance in the previous year.

HARD ROCK Cafe Manila has come home — sort of — as the second branch of the chain restaurant is back in Glorietta 3, Makati City. It now occupies a new space a floor below its longtime haunt on the third floor of the mall.

YIELDS ON THE central bank’s term deposit facility (TDF) continued to go down despite lower bids on hints of possible easing from the central bank to cushion the economy against risks from the continued spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

DISCOVERY Suites Ortigas, the first hotel of the Discovery Leisure Company, Inc. hospitality group, celebrated its 20^th anniversary last month, thus commemorating everything else that followed the hotel’s 2000 opening: the various properties located in Makati, Tagaytay, Boracay, and Palawan.

WASHINGTON — The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Tuesday in a bid to shield the world’s largest economy from the impact of the coronavirus, but the emergency move failed to comfort US financial markets roiled by worries about a deeper, lasting slowdown.

J.P. MORGAN expects the Monetary Board (MB) to cut rates by a further 50 basis points (bps) this year as part of a broader easing trend across Emerging Asia to shield their economies against the negative impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.

THE Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) said the Office of the Executive Secretary (OES) will lead a program to reduce process times for government approvals by more than half.

THE Department of Finance (DoF) has once more asked the Senate to prioritize the Corporate Income Tax and Incentives Reform Act (CITIRA) bill just before Congress goes on a seven-week break, to attract more companies seeking a landing spot after exiting China.

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