The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
The campaign team of presidential candidate, former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, may have stumbled upon the elusive answer to the question “how do we put our candidate ahead in the race?”
Points of View & Perspectives
February, 2016
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14 February
Bangko Sentral action needed
There is a need for the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to have a watchful eye on certain activities of banks and investment houses due to their grave implications on the state of the economy. One of such activities is the unchecked collusion between some banks and investment houses and the companies that float bonds in the market for their …
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14 February
Stand up against large-scale mining, poll candidates urged
The next President of the Philippines must discontinue the Aquino administration’s mining liberalization policy that has resulted in destruction, poverty and armed attacks on mining-affected areas and done little for the economy, the local think tank IBON has said.
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7 February
The unsatisfied satisfied
If, indeed, the economy is on the upswing, the last five years under the self-described competent governance of Benigno Aquino III and his Cabinet, and with domestic-productivity numbers the highest ever, presumably founding the resplendent welfare Filipinos must now be enjoying, then why are voters condemning Aquino’s chosen to wallow in the darkest pits?
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7 February
8990 Holdings continues disruptive innovationtimistic
8990 Holdings, the country’s No. 1 mass-housing developer, continues to carve an enviable niche in the housing industry even as it forges ahead with its disruptive innovation that has opened the eyes of big property players to the fact that the affordable-housing segment provides a sizeable contribution to the bottom line.
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7 February
The dramatic Mar Roxas
Once again, the creative geniuses behind the string of television commercials of presidential aspirant and former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas appear to be experimenting.
January, 2016
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31 January
Mathematics of mismanaging pensions
It would otherwise be a brazen act of pillaging and plundering pensions and that would be criminal if, indeed, the first order of the day for those entrusted with our money had first and foremost their own monetary interests in mind.
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31 January
The Eucharistic meet and the emperor and empress
Two big events that transpired as the first month of the year ended had what could be described as a “January effect” of the stock market, so called to indicate the surge in the buying of stocks this month that followed the December selling off for market players to monetize their tax losses.
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31 January
When black propaganda fails
A painful lesson should be learned by parties involved in the apparent intense black-propaganda and reputation-demolition operations against two major political personalities running in this year’s national polls.