The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
The previous administration had not only gotten the real-estate investment trust (REIT) wrong, but also bungled it big time, virtually killing it as an investment vehicle that would have democratized massive revenues, brought heretofore unattainable investments in prime assets within the reach of investors, and provided the property sector substantial incremental capital to increase both asset sizes and value. Recently the REIT …
Points of View & Perspectives
July, 2016
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24 July
‘So do you write it in English?’
Still, Laurianne asked, even if we’ve known each other for sometime.
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24 July
Who kept Aquino in the dark and why?
More than three weeks after President Duterte assumed office, the media reported there have already been more than 300 killings related to illegal drugs.
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24 July
Oishi listing speculation hits stock market
As the stock market sizzled to hit another psychological milestone at 8,000 points, attention is now being focused on the next IPO (initial public offering) darling – Oishi snack and beverage producer Liwayway Marketing Corp.
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17 July
The two inaugurals
There should not have been two. Not in the manner of the pomp and public display that both had been featured, matching one against the other, differentiating and compelling comparisons where there should have been none. The protocol is for one complete with pomp and pageantry while the other, purposely private and placid.
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17 July
Two ways of seeing us
On a flight from Incheon to New York years ago, the stark side of how we mirror ourselves as Filipinos turned on me in the guise of a hefty elderly woman who had sequestered my armrest.
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17 July
De Lima should be investigated for dismally failing to stop illegal drugs
Neophyte Sen. Leila de Lima appears to be in an awkward spot.
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17 July
China backlash ignored as PSE index hits high
By Riza Lozada While foreign groups issued warnings of the possible backlash of the United Nations-backed arbitral tribunal award that favored the Philippines in its maritime dispute with China, the stock market largely ignored these negative views as the bourse index returned to record levels.
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10 July
The summer of our discontent
There is an intensifying insurgency. The planets are aligning and, at least timeline-wise, we may have been the first to start a popular uprising against unfeeling and alienated authorities, insensitive and callous bureaucrats and unresponsive and incompetent governments.
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10 July
Fancy meeting you at the opera
Rushing into the University of Columbia’s Chan Performing Arts Centre lobby for my first cultural evening a few years ago, I waded through wafts of perfume and brushed my arm against the silk sleeves of an opera crowd in frantic search of Jan, the friend who got for us tickets to Rusalka, Antonín Dvoák’s widely performed work.