Philex shares slide on Padcal mill disruption
PHILEX MINING CORP. (Philex) shares fell last week after a structural failure at its Padcal Mine’s mill plant disrupted operations and weighed on investor sentiment, despite strong global gold prices.
Pineapple — chunks, rings, or clothes?
THE PINEAPPLE PLANT has been good to us: once a symbol of luxury, it has been made into a traditional textile for use in...
T-bill, bond rates may be mixed before GDP data
RATES of the Treasury bill (T-bills) and Treasury bonds (T-bonds) on offer this week could end mixed as players await the release of Philippine...
Paris Fashion Week: Hermès designer bows out with final menswear show; Giambattista Valli cancels...
PARIS — Hermès menswear designer Véronique Nichanian presented her final collection on Saturday in Paris after nearly four decades in the role, as the...
Farmland reclassification suspended until June
THE Department of Agriculture (DA) suspended the processing of all new agricultural and reclassification applications, citing the need to protect farmland from rapid conversion.
The...
Trump is a lot like Kaiser Wilhelm: Vanity itself
AN ADMIRAL writes of a world leader who is familiar to us: “He is vanity itself, sacrificing everything to his own moods and childish amusements, and nobody checks him in doing so. I ask myself how people with blood rather than water in their veins can bear to be around him.”
Peso may strengthen further before GDP
THE PESO could trade stronger this week and even return to the P58 level before the release of Philippine gross domestic product (GDP) growth...
Regulator issues safety warning for fertilizer, pesticide sold online
THE Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA) said the online sale of fertilizer and pesticide remains unauthorized and products distributed through such channels pose a...
High Expectations
By Pablo Salapantan
GWM is betting big on the Haval H9
GWM (OR GREAT WALL MOTORS) has always been on the quieter side of the country’s expanding motoring...
Sustaining our gains in tobacco taxation
By Pia Rodrigo
Last December, Economics for Health launched the fourth edition of its Cigarette Tax Scorecard, which studied cigarette tax policies in 171 countries, based on...
BSP bills’ rates drop as demand soars
THE BANGKO SENTRAL ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) short-term securities fetched a lower average rate on Friday as demand for the offering remained strong.
The 28-day BSP...
France probes link between baby deaths, milk formula
PARIS — French investigators are examining the deaths of two infants who had consumed baby formula products that were subject to a precautionary recall...