The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

To kick-start the economy when the quarantine gets lifted, government plans to inject more than P30 billion in loans for companies affected by the business disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Global demand for fuel is expected to remain weak for the first half of 2020 and may recover in the second half as economies start to open up after COVID-19 pandemic, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

The Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) plans to borrow P170 billion from the domestic market by issuing government securities.

After ‘community quarantine’, the next buzz phrase is ‘new normal’. Many believe the new classification ‘general community quarantine’ will be the new normal for Filipinos. Apart from tourism, the next hardest hit by the pandemic is the travel sector including the aviation industry. All airlines around the world are affected – no one’s exempted, even Cebu Pacific. Hundreds of billions …

US President Donald Trump took a lot of beating after he withdrew support to the World Health Organization (WHO), accusing the Geneva-based agency – led by Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus – of propagating “false information” and charged that its reliance on Chinese data had “likely caused a 20-fold increase in cases worldwide.” The US contributed $400 million to the WHO …

he COVID-19 pandemic involves a different kind of war with medical professionals – doctors, nurses and other medical or health care workers – risking their lives to save others These medical frontliners are fighting an “unseen enemy” while coping desperately with scarcity of alcohol, face masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE). The country’s health care system has been inundated …

Today, people turn to music, playing instruments or singing as a way of coping during the global lockdown. Music seems to soothe us when the going gets tough.

Bea Alonzo remind people that aside from taking care of physical health, one must also look after their mental health in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.

Ethel Booba revealed the “true story” behind the controversial Twitter account that she disowned recently.

Australia’s consumer watchdog said it was investigating Qantas for alleged anti-competitive behavior, after its CEO appeared to call for rival Virgin Australia to be cut out of a massive government bailout.