Emerging market inflows lowest since Jan. — IIF
NEW YORK -- Foreign investors cut capital flows to emerging market debt and equities in August, reducing inflows to $15.8 billion as investor caution...
Food, oil, electricity spur Aug. inflation
HIGHER food, oil and electricity costs spurred prices of widely used goods and services in August at the fastest clip in three months, according...
Government in final stages of preparation for panda bond sale
THE GOVERNMENT plans to be ready for the sale of yuan-denominated bonds by November, said a senior official of the Treasury bureau which is...
Foreign business leaders press government on infrastructure agenda
FOREIGN INVESTORS want the government to pick up the pace on infrastructure development, fearing that President Rodrigo R. Duterte may run out of time...
Bangladesh central bank pushing recovery of more heist money
DHAKA -- Bangladesh’s central bank was to send a team of officials to the Philippines on Tuesday to push for the recovery of more...
Philippine PMI weakest so far in August
BUSINESS improved for factories in the country but at the weakest pace, so far, in August, according to a monthly survey IHS Markit conducts...
Big miners move to assure critics
By Janina C. Lim
Reporter
THE Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (CoMP) will investigate complaints against members and invited journalists to visit their sites, in...
Slowdown-hit Indian economy counts costs of stronger rupee
NEW DELHI -- India’s stronger currency has become a threat for its growth aspirations, piling pressure on the central bank to aggressively intervene in...
Poll: Aug. inflation could be 3-month top
By Melissa Luz T. Lopez
Senior Reporter
THE OVERALL HIKE in prices of widely used goods and services could have quickened in August to its fastest...
Farm chief says bout with bird flu ‘over’
THE DEPARTMENT of Agriculture (DA) has eased restrictions on the transport of poultry from bird flu-infected areas in Central Luzon, declaring the emergency “officially...
Customs told to collect P50 billion monthly until December
NEWLY SEATED Customs Commissioner Isidro S. Lapeña must raise at least P50.1 billion in monthly revenues for the last four months of the year...
Bulls see room to run after 8-month gain in emerging marts
SAO PAOLO -- You have to go back to 2004 for the last time emerging-market (EM) stocks racked up a longer series of monthly...