TERM DEPOSIT yields slipped on the first week of the year on the back of some holiday fever and the stronger performance of the peso in 2019.

BERLIN -- The trade union representing cabin crew at Lufthansa’s budget airline Germanwings decided on Wednesday not to continue their strike for the time being after three days of stoppages led to dozens of flights being canceled.

THE GOVERNMENT is planning to price its foreign bond issuances this year at “even tighter” spreads amid expectations of a credit rating upgrade in the medium term and policy easing from global central banks.

As we welcome the start of a new decade, it is heartening to know that the Philippines will remain among the fastest-growing economies in the world, based on a recent report from the UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) titled “The Next Decade.”

PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Duterte will review contracts for the Kaliwa Dam project in Quezon should any questionable provisions emerge, his spokesman said.

THE Department of Budget and Management (DBM) ordered agencies and local government units (LGUs) to operate with funds appropriated for 2019 for the time being as the 2020 budget is still awaiting President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s signature.

THE AVERAGE farmgate price of palay, or unmilled rice, declined 0.1% week-on-week to P15.55 per kilogram (kg) in the fifth week of November, breaking a two-week run of gains, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said.

PHILIPPINE STOCKS tanked on the first day of trading for 2020 as money flew to China following its central bank’s decision to reduce banks’ reserve requirement ratio (RRR) and as uncertainty continues to hover on water stocks and ABS-CBN Corp. due to a rift with the government.

THE PAST DECADE hasn’t done much to inspire optimism about the future of the planet.

In another demonstration of unpresidential pique, President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the Bureau of Immigration to stop United States Senators Richard Durbin and Patrick Leahy from entering the country. Messrs. Durbin and Leahy were the most instrumental in the decision to include in the 2020 US budget act, which Duterte phone pal Donald Trump has signed into law, a provision ordering the Secretary of State to deny entry into the US anyone in Philippine officialdom involved in the persecution, arrest and detention of opposition Senator Leila de Lima.

NOT ALL the food you ordered or got as gifts end up on the holiday table and fully consumed by your guests. Always, there is an embarrassment of calorific riches left untouched. The household is faced with limited refrigerated space and the need to decide what to keep and what to give away -- for here or to go?

PHILIPPINE basketball saw its share of ups and downs in the Year 2019, carrying with them lessons that should serve to steer the sport into the coming years.