The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
In the run-up to the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference later this month, the matter of trade and comparative industrialization again takes center stage and, for the latter, ours pales considerably. Allow us to review where our weaknesses lie, specifically focusing on the stages where industrialization should have taken root, but did not.
Points of View & Perspectives
November, 2015
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1 November
Would these nightmares matter in the afterlife?
Who wakes me some nights has been a beloved departed. Yes, I’ve been having nightmares, but not the usual kind—not from ghosts or ghouls that remain just phantoms for me.
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1 November
8990 Holdings continues to excite capital market
8990 Holdings, Inc., the country’s No.1 mass-housing developer, continues to excite the capital market with a deal-breaker of a deal regarding the P1-billion sale of its CTS or contract to sell receivables, to Ayala’s BPI Family Bank . The transaction has three interesting subtexts involving the mass-housing industry, the capital market, and access to long-term financing.
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1 November
BOJ holds off on more stimulus, despite stalling inflation
By Elaine Kurtenbach / The Associated Press Tokyo—Japan’s central bank kept its monetary policy unchanged Friday, but hinted it could expand its already expansive stimulus in the future to counter slowing exports and other threats to growth.
October, 2015
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25 October
Take the money and run
It’s been tried several times before and, perhaps, the frequency of its successes is one more than once too often. Had not we been bobotante, it would not have succeeded the first time. But that it’s a tried-and-tested business model a second, third and fourth time, and now, under the administration of Benigno Aquino III, has attained the stature of …
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25 October
Seeing in Trump’s Wall more than what’s intended
Walls to ward off anyone deemed undesirable or just about anyone who doesn’t belong has become a prominent idea these days in America, as posed by Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to solve the immigration problem.
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25 October
Duterte move favors Binay
Contrary to the view of a self-styled “political analyst,” the move by Davao City Mayor Digong Duterte to stay out of the 2016 presidential race primarily favors the bid of Vice President Jejomar Binay.
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25 October
Clinton seeks to close book on Benghazi
Washington—Hillary Rodham Clinton battled questions for hours from Republicans in a hearing that grew contentious but revealed little new about the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, as she defended her record while seeking to avoid any mishap that might damage her 2016 presidential campaign.
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18 October
Desperately exploitive taxes
In a discussion with one bureaucrat, of particular interest was the official’s unusual perspective on the mining industry.
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18 October
Fascinating how immigrant child finds right path in the end
He could have all the toys he ever wanted, trips to enchanted kingdoms or, yes, Disneyland itself. His future carved out of his parents’ dreams, though still lost to him in the flurry of packing away and his first flight, nevertheless, excites him.