The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

By DR. EDUARDO GONZALES Despite the mass quarantine, lockdowns, and social distancing rules that most governments have adopted in stemming the COVID-19 pandemic, don’t expect the disease to go away anytime soon. These extremely costly measures will hopefully slow down the spread of the disease to levels that our health care delivery systems can cope with and buy time for …

Telecommuting – today’s buzzword for studying or working from home – can benefit a lot of families: flexible work schedule, no strenuous daily commute, increased productivity and improved work-life balance. Technology and the internet has made telecommuting a lot easier with various apps and websites available.

Learning to play a musical instrument is very rewarding. Through music, kids and adults learn discipline and coordination, express creativity and find a healthy way to manage stress.

While billions are unable to leave their homes and conduct their normal routine during the extended lockdown, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that people are experiencing different levels of stress during the global pandemic.

To help in the fight against COVID-19, cement manufacturer Holcim Philippines, Inc. (HPI) is shifting its corporate citizenship budget to provide medical supplies to hospitals assigned to treat coronavirus patients and relief items to its affected communities. 

Manila Water has partnered with the Ayala Group and other companies in converting the World Trade Center (WTC) into a fully operational healthcare and quarantine facility for COVID-19 patients.

The country’s consumer outlook remained positive for the first quarter (Q1) of 2020, even as the overall confidence index (CI) remained positive although marginally lower at 1.26% from 1.31% for Q4 2019.

To help ease the condition of patients diagnosed with coronavirus-19 (COVID-19), Hanabishi partnered with the longest-running noontime variety show Eat Bulaga (EB) in donating electric fans to Pasig City Children’s Hospital (PCCH).

Traditional organizational archives today are slowly becoming extinct. Gone are the dusty, dim-lit storage rooms, floor to ceiling shelves full of paper and stacks of cardboard boxes bursting with files and folders.  Enterprises are learning to effectively manage the growing mass of documents they generate and use modern scanning technology to digitally archive vital documents fast and efficiently.

Researchers have recently manifested renewed interest in an old medical treatment for modern applications: convalescent plasma therapy.