The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

As cars become more and more advanced with semi-autonomous driving features, it seems the driver has less and less to do in the car. Look at Cadillac’s Super Cruise feature.

The Philippine unit of the AirAsia Group said it would launch flights between Manila and Osaka, Japan in the second half of the year.

2018 will likely see a notable shift in the global auto industry. While vehicles inevitably move towards greater electrification, there might also be an even bigger revolution on the way, not in terms of what vehicles we buy, but how we buy them.

Canadian telecommunications software company BlackBerry and China’s web giant Baidu on Wednesday announced a partnership for autonomous and connected vehicles.

By Riza Lozada Traders expect the stock index to test the 9,400 level this year as a result of a positive economic outlook which will fuel corporate earnings, First Metro Investment Corp. (FMIC), the investment banking arm of the Metrobank Group, said.

Telecoms and digital services provider Philippine Long Distance Telecommunications (PLDT) and its mobile unit Smart Communications have signed a $28.5 million partnership with Chinese Huawei Technologies to improve the delivery of wireless services to its customers.

The Villar group of companies is allotting P175 billion in capital expenditures for the next three years, as it continues to grow its various businesses on the back of a strong economy.

Close to 100,000 Aklanons in three municipalities now have access to better health services as a result of a corporate citizenship initiative of the country’s largest bank.

By Riza Lozada The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) will speed up the streamlining of processes for the documentary requirements of micro, small and medium-scale enterprises (MSMEs) renewing business permits following the congressional approval and implementation of the first package of the tax reform law.

Regulator Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp (PDIC) earned P34.5 million from the sale of 18 corporate and closed banks’ properties during a recent public bidding at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) – Cebu Regional Office.