The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

By Hananeel C. Bordey The world’s largest cleft charity celebrated World Smile Day in honor of the people who contributed to their cause and helped change the lives of children born with untreated clefts in the Philippines last October 5 at I’M Hotel, Makati City.

By Allan Mediante While the President’s net satisfaction rating from June 2017 to September 2017 dropped in the Visayas, Luzon, and in Metro Manila, it remained steady here in Mindanao.

Lee Van Corteza became the first Filipino and first Asian winner of the World 14.1 Straight Pool Championship after beating German Thorsten Hohmann recently in New York City.

The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) will hold a national consultative meeting for collegiate sports on Oct. 17-18 at the Philsports Multi-Purpose Arena in Pasig City.

There is nothing wrong with PBA teams getting the services of highly-talented imports that have history of volatility, but it’s a gamble that they readily have to take owing to the risks involved in hiring one.

Reigning Asian Boxing Federation (ABF) light flyweight champion Merlito “Tiger” Sabillo will defend his crown against Crison “Cowboy’ Omayao of Valencia City, Bukidnon infront of his townmates in Bacolod City on October 20 at the Barangay Granada covered court.

Bannering the values of heart, effort, ambition, respect, and teamwork, the first Milo FC Barcelona (FCB) Philippine team has been officially revealed, chosen from a talented pool of almost 150 kids from all around the country who took part in the Milo FCB Road to Barcelona Training Camp last September 2 to 3.

By Riza Lozada The government is currently reviewing its Foreign Investment Negative List (FINL) as a way of increasing business projects that would be allowed full foreign participation or ownership prior to an eventual plan to amend the Constitution, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said during the economic officials’ mission to China.

The Philippines has the best availability of skilled and competitively priced labor and ease of recruiting labor in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) region, according to a recent survey of European businesses in Southeast Asia.

By Luis Leoncio The economy sustaining its strong growth path of above six percent would result in the poverty rate to decline to 22.9 percent in 2018, the World Bank (WB) said in its October 2017 edition of the East Asia and Pacific Economic Update.