The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Border-region Mexican and U.S. football teams will play a tournament to protest the wall U.S. President Donald Trump plans to build along the two countries’ shared border, local media reported on Tuesday. 

Life on the fast lane demands juggling multiple activities at the same time. Today’s millennials know this, and they’re aware of the importance to balance work with a bustling social life that’s full of parties, travel engagements, and social-media networking. They often take on many roles: photographers, party planners, gamers. 

By Alvin I. Dacanay In a career spanning more than 40 years, award-winning actress Elizabeth Oropesa has made a name for herself for playing strong and vivid women who are not afraid to speak their mind or assert themselves when a situation demands it. 

A week after 24-year-old Iris Mittenaere of France was crowned as the new Miss Universe at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City, pageant watchers and commentators still couldn’t get enough of the charming dental-surgery student from Lille who snuck up behind the contest’s frontrunners, including our very own Miss Philippines Maxine Medina, to clinch the title—the first time …

The PhilPop MusicFest Foundation is set to expand nationwide this year by holding the PhilPop Songwriting Boot Camp on certain dates and in key cities across the country, with the aim of inspiring and encouraging Filipino songwriters and helping them grow. 

Mega Global Corp., a leading distributor of canned goods and ready-to-eat viands, recently renewed its partnership with actress Liza Soberano as Mega Tuna’s celebrity endorser with the signing of a contract during the company’s sales conference at Prime Hotel in Quezon City. 

The Hong Kong Tourism Board launched last January 24 a new marketing campaign in Manila, called “Best of All, It’s in Hong Kong,” to highlight the diversity and quality of experiences the city has to offer to foreign visitors. 

The Yuchengco Museum is pleased to present Digital Dimensions, an exhibit that features the video-art projections of internationally renowned Japanese media artist Naoko Tosa, who was recently appointed as Japan Cultural Envoy 2016 by the Japanese government. 

By Abs A. Abando / Philippines News Agency Showcasing Filipino creativity in no less than the world’s fashion capital, Filipina haute couture designer Sari Lazaro closed the “Catwalk on Water” fashion show, produced by Vietnamese-born, Paris-based model Jessica Minh Anh, at the Seine river with her “Royal Secret Garden” collection on January 27.

By Luis Leoncio The Philippines had the most robust economy in Asia for 2016 when it posted a 6.8-percent full-year growth as gross domestic product (GDP) expansion moderated in the fourth quarter to 6.6 percent.