The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
It is hard to deny it. No matter how much our current and prospective officials constantly boast of the resplendent gross domestic productivity (GDP) growth that they imagine leaves comparable economies in the region not only far behind us but eating the dust in the wake of our incredible economic advances, the relative size of our agricultural sector matched against …
Points of View & Perspectives
January, 2016
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24 January
The LT Group-Ayala Land tieup
The news about the marriage of Ayala Land Inc. and the Lucio Tan Group in a property development venture sets forth a new paradigm in investments in the country: business rivals can become business partners. And this initial partnership between the two erstwhile business competitors could translate to other bigger things.
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24 January
If PNoy did not trust Mar, why should we?
The Senate is reportedly set to reopen its probe of the massacre at Mamasapano where 44 brave Philippine National Police (PNP) Special Action Forces men perished.
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24 January
China test flights rattling the region
Manila—Tensions broke out anew in the South China Sea after Beijing announced early January that it had sent a civilian plane to test a three-kilometer runway it had built on Fiery Cross Reef, one of the sites of China’s island-building activities. A statement released by Xinhua on new flights carried out by China Southern Airlines and Hainan Airlines followed this.
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10 January
Perpetuating a platform of plunder
Benigno Aquino III’s chosen presidential candidate for 2016 is running on a platform of continuity, he being not simply part and parcel of the administration in the last five years but a significant principal, as originally envisioned when picked to run with Aquino in 2010, pulling levers and operating in front of and behind the throne. As Aquino’s anointed, he …
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10 January
Governor Tetangco’s legacy
In five months, Bangko Sentral Governor Amando “Say” Tetangco bows out from a sterling stewardship of the monetary body with numerous firsts for the country and to name a few: the paying off of the Philippines’s loan to the International Monetary Fund and its subsequent role as lender ($1 billion), the huge reserves of $80 billion equivalent to 10.5 months …
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10 January
Is Roxas wasting ad spending?
Last week, media discussions centered on who has spent the most on television advertising among the presidential aspirants in the 2016 elections.
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10 January
North Korea warns of war over South’s propaganda broadcasts
Seoul, South Korea— North Korea warned of war as South Korea on Saturday continued blasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda across the rivals’ tense border in retaliation for the North’s purported fourth nuclear test.
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3 January
The end of export subsidies 2
(Conclusion) Against the onslaught of globalization and the advance of juggernauts of the corporate world aggressively establishing beachheads in far and distant developing and underdeveloped economies, there not so much to spread investments but rather to achieve economies, widen margins, exploit the cheapest labor, the lowest tax regimes and the most vulnerable markets, in the light of the initiative to …
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3 January
Pork barrel embedded in budget?
Is there “pork” in the P3-trillion budget that President Aquino has just approved? This is what is uppermost in the minds of businessmen, given the assertion from former National Treasurer Leonor Magtolis Briones that there is plenty of that excess fat in the national appropriations, by far the biggest under the Aquino administration.
