The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

“Nakakabingi!” Juliet had complained in equal loudness about the silence on New Year’s Day. Wet large flakes, which fell on New Year’s Eve, had dampened her spirits, or I bet like most Filipinos, especially new arrivals, used to an explosive Bagong Taon. We had huddled under a virgin-white mantle from evening to night, nibbling on leftover food from Christmas, made …

By Jesse C. Ong  AT the height of the recent squabble between Asi Taulava and NLEX concerning his diminished playing time, not too many people knew that his dream of ending a decorated Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) career in Ginebra uniform almost came close to reality.

A five-member team led by Marella Salamat will compete in the Asian Cycling Championships slated to be held on Feb. 24 to March 3 in Bahrain. 

The Philippine Taekwondo Association (PTA) will send athletes to various tournaments abroad to boost their chances of qualifying in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. 

This was announced by Association of Boxing Alliance in the Philippines (Abap) Executive Director Ed Picson after the ASBC Asian Boxing Confederation awarded the hosting to the Philippines during its executive committee meeting recently in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 

Ethiopian runners swept the top three spots in both the men’s and women’s divisions in the 2017 Xiamen International Marathon in Xiamen, China recently.

If you love working out to music and are looking for the perfect product for that, leading Apple retailer Power Mac Center is offering you JBL Reflect Aware earphones, touted as the world’s first sport earphones with noise-cancelation and adaptive noise-control features.

President Duterte will be the keynote speaker when the Philippine Sports Institute (PSI) is launched on Jan. 16 at the Philsports Multi-Purpose Arena in Pasig City.

Leading smartphone brand Lenovo is offering Filipino millennials an unmatched and affordable mobile experience with the release of the Lenovo Vibe A6600, a feature-packed budget smartphone that’s exclusively available through Globe Telecom, the Philippines’ leading mobile carrier.

If there’s a definite bright spot in what many people, including myself, consider an awful year for the Philippines and the world, it’s the fact that Filipino films earned unprecedented acclaim in film festivals here and overseas in 2016.