The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol volunteers to undergo a lifestyle check to clear his name amid what he claims as “orchestrated” insinuations of his involvement in anomalous rice importation transactions.

By Jann Ryan P. Padua Leaving the country to work in a foreign land, driven by the need to provide for the needs of the family. It is always a difficult decision. Dubbed as “modern-day heroes”, Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) have their own adventures and struggles to deal with head on.

By Tracy Cabrera In addressing the problem of malnutrition in the country, the Department of Health (DoH) is proposing the establishment of malnutrition wards in target hospitals to combat the growing rate of malnutrition in government medical facilities.

Dominguez III said the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) is studying the “exact timing” of the issuance of the Marawi bonds in relation to the schedule of the delivery of the pledges raised by the government from the international community last week in Davao City.

The Duterte administration’s tax reform package that aims to lower the corporate income tax (CIT) and overhaul the country’s “convoluted” fiscal incentives system is projected to generate some 1.4 million jobs, mostly in small and medium enterprises (SMEs), over the next decade and create a business environment conducive to inclusive growth, according to Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III.

Last November 24, 2018, in Lisbon, Portugal, PHINMA President and CEO Ramon R. del Rosario, Jr. was presented with the inaugural Business as a Noble Vocation Award at the UNIAPAC World Congress 2018.

Manila Water was among the Top 50 Asean Publicly Listed Companies (PLCs) in the region named for achieving excellence in corporate governance best practices based on the rigorous assessment using the Asean Corporate Governance Scorecard (ACGS) in 2017.

Last week, media reported that a number of people died after imbibing that popular coconut-based alcoholic beverage called “lambanog”.

Teaser: The Italian central bank recently published a report that barely pleased the government of Rome, though it is worth the read.

The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has been exploring the possibility of tapping foreign expertise to help in the development of the country’s transport sector.