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...
What slowdown? Factories chug along as global demand holds
LONDON/HONG KONG -- Factories across Asia and Europe cranked up production last month as global demand remained strong, confounding expectations growth may have peaked....
Price hikes could have picked up in Aug.
HIGHER oil and electricity costs as well as rising rice prices likely drove inflation faster in August, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said...
Companies advised to give back more
BOSSES of some of the country’s conglomerates believe that businesses “can do more” to improve lives as they scour the fast-growing general economy for...
Fed likely to see little change in economy, policy course after the flood
WASHINGTON -- The economic fallout from Hurricane Harvey will make the Federal Reserve’s job more difficult when it meets in three weeks, but US...
