The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

House Speaker Pantaleon D. Alvarez asked concerned House committees to require the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) to submit the list of proposed projects of all government agencies to Congress prior to its approval since the annual national budget emanates from the House. 

The Duterte administration will exercise fiscal prudence and responsibility to ensure that its unmatched public investments in infrastructure would create a lot more jobs and business opportunities, which, in turn, would sustain the country’s growth momentum and accelerate poverty reduction. 

Motorists will soon have another option avoiding a congested Daang Maharlika in Bulacan, with the new 9.62-kilometer Pulilan-Baliuag Diversion Road that is now being paved by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). 

Senator Leila M. de Lima has expressed serious concerns over the $167-billion infrastructure project of the Duterte administration that would be financed through foreign loans, mostly coming from the Chinese government. 

Has the “contractor mentality” syndrome overcome certain quarters in the Administration? Has the syndrome driven government to ease out key private sector participants in infrastructure development? 

Fragile as falling feather to my mind, that is, I had once offered to help lift her cart when it sank into a mound of softened snow on a curb, but she declined graciously, telling me she had done this countless of times since her husband died two decades ago—a rueful smile lighting up her side-upturned face from the crook …

The Duterte administration’s goal of hitting 100 percent rice self-sufficiency level in two years, to push the Philippines to reclaim its status as rice exporter, is now a step closer to attainment. 

By Jesse C. Ong  It’s all’s well that ends well for local volleyball ace Alyssa Valdez and national coach Francis Vicente. 

Colegio de San Lorenzo-V Hotel found an unlikely hero in Argie Baldevia to subdue Wang’s Ballclub-Asia Tech, 74-69, for its third straight win in the 2017 MBL Open basketball tournament at the PNP Sports Center in Camp Crame. 

Veteran Amaya Paz-Cojuangco hurdled her Dutch opponent on Thursday in the women’s individual compound knockout round of the 2017 Hyundai World Cup in Shanghai, China.