The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
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 …
Points of View & Perspectives
January, 2016
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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.
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3 January
Roxas’s woe: Binay’s ‘indestructibility’
There are several ways to spin the results of the last survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) for 2015, which was commissioned by a business newspaper.
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3 January
White House South Lawn becomes first lady’s grassy stage
Washington—Michelle Obama’s affection for the White House South Lawn has grown just like the sweet potatoes and carrots she plants there.
December, 2015
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27 December
The end of export subsidies
First of two parts From the perspective of global powers that insist on imposing on economies like ours the globalization paradigm as defined through the various World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summits, and even by the latest Western-initiated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, the objective of trade growth has consistently been central. In their detail, …
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27 December
Helping the poor in Pangasinan
IT entrepreneur Dr. Cezar T. Quiambao has emerged in the forefront of equipping the poorest of the poor in Bayambang, Pangasinan, with tools to better their lot and with their self-worth intact, their imagination fired up and their lives turning for the better.