PHL banks to continue expanding in 2017, 2018
By Janine Marie D. Soliman,
Reporter
THE PHILIPPINE banking industry is expected to continue growing this year and next, driven by the sector’s low interest rates,...
EsDevCo, TRMH team up for mixed-use complex
DAVAO CITY — Homegrown real estate developer Escandor Development Corp. (EsDevCo) and sister firm The Royal Mandaya Hotel (TRMH) are developing an old inn...
Ambitious wine makers, climate change makes for good, cheap Pinot
GREAT Pinot Noirs, as a friend once put it, have a near-sexual allure. The first taste can turn you into a bottle stalker, which...
Typhoon batters Hong Kong; streets flooded, flights canceled
HONG KONG -- Typhoon Hato, a maximum category 10 storm, slammed into Hong Kong on Wednesday lashing the Asian financial hub with wind and...
DENR moving to identify more potential sources of water
THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said it will classify in the next five years 183 more bodies of water according to...
Peso continues to climb
THE PESO continued to strengthen against the dollar on Wednesday ahead of the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium amid the absence of catalysts offshore and at...
N. Korea’s Kim ‘starting to respect US’ — Trump
SEOUL -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is “starting to respect” the United States, President Donald J. Trump declared, even as Pyongyang revealed plans...
Smartphone shipments in PHL drop in second quarter — IDC
THE VOLUME of smartphones shipped to the Philippines declined in the second quarter as local vendors faced tougher competition from their Chinese counterparts, a...
Fisheries output decline narrows in Q2 — PSA
TOTAL FISHERIES production declined year on year in the second quarter, according to a report by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
According to PSA’s second...
Best to be Swiss if you’re eating steak in Zurich
SWISS meat prices are pretty hard to stomach at first glance.
At $49.68, Switzerland tops the ranking for a kilogram of beef leg round. Yet...
Donald Trump and Ninoy Aquino
By Philip Ella Juico
Republican Donald J. Trump blamed on Tuesday “both sides” for the violence that had occurred during a white supremacist rally on Aug. 12, in...
Shares end flat amid lack of market-moving news
By Arra B. Francia, Reporter
STOCKS traded sideways for lack of leads on Wednesday, causing the local barometer to fall below the 8,000 mark for the...