The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Jeron Teng will be the new king of the Titans after AMA Online Education made him the first overall selection in the 2016 PBA D-League Draft on Tuesday at PBA Cafe in Metrowalk, Pasig City.

The 7-Eleven cycling team will compete in the Herald Sun Tour, which will be held in Australia next year.

The Philippines won three bronze medals cour­tesy of Kristel Iso Macrohon recently in the 4th Qatar International Cup and 2016 Asian Cup at the Doha In­tercontinental Hotel in Doha City.

By Leslie D. Venzon / Philippines News Agency The Philippine real-estate sector is expected to remain strong until next year on the back of robust economic growth and the expanding business-process outsourcing (BPO) sector, re­al-estate advisory and services firm CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) Philippines Inc. said recently.

Online real-estate portal Dot Property Philippines (www.dot­property.com.ph) has struck a partnership with DMCI Homes that would allow the property company to become the first Filipino developer to join the International Property Show, to be held at ION Orchard in Singapore from February 20 to 26, 2017. This comes as foreign in­vestors continue to clamor for Philippine real estate, and Dot …

A modern landmark in Makati City’s central busi­ness district (CBD) is ex­pected to rise in the form of The Stratosphere, a 31-story mixed-use building that’s in­tended to house commercial spaces and 328 condomini­um units, with about 120 of these to become part of The Sphere Serviced Residences, to be managed by Hospitali­ty Innovators Inc. (HII).

In an unprecedented promotional move, the 42nd Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) execu­tive committee recently gave producers of the festival’s official entries the option to grant a 30-percent discount on tickets to students, senior citizens, and people with disabilities (PWDs).

Filipino homemakers show their love for their family by using only the best ingredi­ents to cook the most de­licious meals. And when it comes to chicken dishes, they use only the freshest, cleanest, and superior-quality poultry products, like Bounty Fresh Chicken.

A short film made by students from the Digital Filmmaking program of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde won four major awards at the second annual SineNanay Film Festival, held at the Philip­pine Women’s University (PWU) Concert Hall on Taft Avenue, Malate, Ma­nila, on December 16.

Five years after publishing his previous book, award-win­ning screenwriter and author Ricky Lee recently released his newest, Kung Alam N’yo Lang: Mga Kuwentong Pambata Para sa mga Hindi na Bata (If You Only Knew: Children’s Stories for Adults), a collec­tion of four stories told from the point of view of four children.