The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Allianz PNB Life Insurance has recently inaugurated Life Track stations inside selected PNB and PNB Savings Bank branches located in the Makati and Ortigas business districts.

The National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) Regional Office IV-A (Calabarzon) and IV-B (Mimaropa) were conferred with the Golden Eagle by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for the fourth and third consecutive year respectively during its annual awarding ceremony on August 4.

Gains from its core business lifted Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co’s (Metrobank) net income in the first half by five percent to P9.5 billion.

Transportation stakeholders in the public land and water transport industry unveiled a lengthy laundry list of impediments to ease of doing business, presented during an initial public consultation on modernizing government regulations.

The present Metro Manila Skyway system from South Luzon Expressway will be accessible up to President Quirino Avenue in Manila by the second quarter of 2018.

The Department of Agriculture (DA) embarks on a road network project in Zamboanga del Sur to connect remote barangays to bigger markets to raise income, productivity and competitiveness in targeted areas and spur economic growth. Under DA’s Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP), longer road networks will be laid in the towns of Josefina, Mahayag, Molave, Ramon Magsaysay and Tukuran with …

Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) posted strong net earnings of P11.5 billion in the first half of the year as the company focused on developing projects across its 22 estates nationwide. Its income was 18% higher than the P9.7 billion it posted in the same period in 2016, driven by solid contributions from its property development and leasing businesses.

My sister came home once with the news of how her boss heard his daughter’s first laughter on his cell phone, and howgarakgak , an Iluko word, instantly came to her mind; but could she tell her boss how this actually describes the sound that thrilled him? How a baby’s laughter first cracks like a branch and screeches with heaves …

At the recent Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Ministerial Meeting, guests and delegates were treated to a live demonstration of making cacao de bola, which is chocolate in its purest form by tablea maker Racquel Choa, who is known as the “Queen of Chocolate”.

Civil society organizations and consumers from the Power for People Coalition (P4P) who petitioned against Meralco’s Power Supply Agreements launched “Nagmamahal, Meralco “, a campaign contesting the company’s sweetheart deals with companies powered by dirty and costly energy.