Robust growth continues
By Leo Jaymar G. Uy
Senior Researcher
GROWTH in assets of the country’s biggest banks continued to be robust last quarter, fuelled by these lenders’ aggressive...
Government keeps ‘very good’ satisfaction
By Rosemarie A. Zamora
THE PUBLIC’s satisfaction with the national government stayed “very good” last quarter under the administration of President Rodrigo R. Duterte, with...
Executive, legislative leaders to fine-tune list of priorities
By Ian Nicolas P. Cigaral
Reporter
THE LEGISLATIVE-EXECUTIVE Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) will convene today for the second time under the current government to agree on...
Business interest still ‘high’ but reality bites
By Melissa Luz T. Lopez
Senior Reporter
AN INITIAL SURGE of investor confidence in the current administration has started to ease more than a year after...
BSP unfazed by current account deficit
THE PHILIPPINES will maintain a modest current account deficit that is unlikely to hit alarming levels, with the component trade gap expected to “correct”...
Review of mine crackdown orders to begin end-September — official
AFTER NEARLY seven months since sanctions were imposed on mines deemed to have transgressed environment laws, the multi-agency Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC) is...
In Vietnam, education can lead to worse job prospects
HANOI -- Nguyen Van Duc graduated two years ago with a bachelor’s degree in economics from one of Vietnam’s best universities.
Today, he earns about...
Third-quarter business optimism weakest in three years
THE BATTLE to take back Marawi City from Islamic militants, martial law over all of Mindanao and damage from the Visayas quake added to...
BSP tightens risk management rules
THE CENTRAL BANK has issued fresh guidelines that require risk management protocols of banks and other financial firms, as well as their subsidiaries.
Bangko Sentral...
Duterte’s infrastructure dev’t drive impacts Philippine tycoons’ fortunes
By Krista A. M. Montealegre
National Correspondent
HENRY SY, Sr. of the SM Group has remained the country’s wealthiest man on the Forbes Philippines’ 50 Richest...
Australia test results show Pampanga bird flu strain can infect humans
THE BIRD FLU strain in San Luis, Pampanga has been identified as H5N6 which can infect humans, an Agriculture department official said yesterday, even...
Investors bullish on Asian currencies except Philippine peso
BENGALURU -- Investors positioned themselves for further gains in Asian currencies against the dollar on expectations the US currency will soften further in the...