The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
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?
Points of View & Perspectives
February, 2016
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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.
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31 January
Greek winemakers join anti-austerity protests over taxation
Athens—For the first time in decades, Greek winemakers joined a wave of anti-austerity protests staged by trade unions.
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24 January
The forgotten economy
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 …
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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.