The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

It’s noteworthy for a stage production to tour nationally, particularly in the Philippines, its theater work because it helps the regions and the grassroots to appreciate the literary meaning and significance of an artistic creation. It also promotes the performing art as a venue to express ideas in crystalizing values in the growth and development of the human condition.

I remember Ceasar Soriano when his first name wasn’t changed yet for, I guess, numerology. It was as simple as Cesar Soriano, his broadcast name at the time we were together in ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs Department. He was a field reporter covering beats like police, Senate, Congress etc for “TV Patrol” while I was doing “Star News,” the …

It all started with TV and radio broadcaster Arnold Clavio sending a blind item on air that one actress from a leading television network is moving out from her home studio and jumping on a neighboring giant broadcast media company.

J & S Productions’ “Noli Me Tangere, The Opera” is a mix of brilliant creative and technical elements.

China is more exciting than usual these days. The party congress has approved a range of new stimulus initiatives that should prevent the GDP growth from dropping too much. Really interesting is the VAT and tax relief for corporations, where the financial market initially expected a total relief of around 1,400 billion yuan, but will turn out to be as …

International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) reported its audited consolidated financial results for the year ended December 31, 2018. Consolidated volume higher by six percent to 9,736,621 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) (FY2017: 9,153,458 TEUs) Revenue from port operations increased 11 percent to US$1.4 billion (FY2017: US$2 billion) Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) grew 11 percent to US$642.2 …

It’s final.

One of the most anticipated film events in the Philippines is the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival which will be held in August at the various screening venues of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and some commercial movie houses like theaters in malls in the country.

Together with actress Anne Curtis, television broadcaster Daphne Oseña-Paez is an addition to the list of celebrities, foreign and local, who are advocates of the welfare of children with UNICEF (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund).

It has been an ongoing discussion since last August as to when the US economy will enter a recession, though it seems it will take something big to knockout the world’s largest economy.