THE financial gearing of Asia Pacific’s largest companies has risen for a second year following a period of deleveraging, but market participants don’t see cause for alarm.

THE INITIAL idea was to use the 40 banigs — mats which had been woven in Basey, Samar — as gifts and room decor. It was the plan when Philippine Ambassador to Portugal Celia Anna M. Feria arrived in Lisbon in May 2017 to assume her post.

THE BANGKO SENTRAL ng Pilipinas (BSP) will now require bigger lenders to report their intraday liquidity position as it looks to monitor its supervised institutions and their capacity to shoulder their day-to-day obligations with clients.

MERGING the past and present of Filipino culture through body movements is the focus of Filipino artist and 2019 Hugo Boss Asia Art awardee Eisa Jocson.

THE INSURANCE Commission (IC) said “majority” of nonlife insurance companies are still working to meet the higher minimum capital requirement that took effect at end-2019, while only “a couple” of life insurers have not yet reached the prerequisite, its top official said.

IF IN THE throes of this bull market’s earliest stages of recovery someone told you to forgo stocks, forget commodities, renounce fixed-income assets and buy an unknown digital token, the first of its kind, and watch it grow beyond your wildest dreams, you’d call them crazy, right?

HIGHER excise taxes on tobacco products helped reduce consumption, but the impact of increased prices on alcohol and petroleum products was minimal, state think tank said.

THE National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) released on Monday the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the National Transport Policy.

THE Senate Committee on Labor, Employment, and Human Resources Development has set as a priority an investigation on the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) industry when legislative session resumes, its Chairman said.

LOCAL SHARES are seen to move upwards on the first trading day and week of 2020 as investors expect the signing of the national budget for this year and positive developments in the US-China trade war.

Business leaders need to exercise more critical thinking to avoid and solve the problems businesses have caused in the last two decades. While business has created massive economic growth all over the world and lifted billions out of poverty, chronic management malpractices have also harmed consumers and worsened income inequality, environmental damage, and psychological and health issues for so many workers.

AS A PUBLIC relations professor, I know a few of my fellow professionals can be counted on to do things that keep my students’ jaws dropping in class each week -- and, like 2018, this year was no exception. Here are the five decisions that beat out stiff competition to rank as the worst corporate PR moves of 2019.