The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

HMR Trading Haus and Loro Sports will be supporting the Philippine Tot Baseball’s 22nd season of the Metro Schools League Baseball and Softball Tournament which opened yesterday at the Sto. Niño Baseball Field in Marikina City.

Sales of vehicles in the country grew to 31,132 units in October, up 8.6 percent from the 28,667 units registered in the same month last year, the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc. (Campi) and Truck Manufacturers Association (TMA) reported recently.

Suzuki Philippines, the pioneer manufacturer of compact vehicles in the country, officially launched last month its all-new Super Carry at the Megatent Events Venue in Quezon City.

Convenience, savings, and special perks await customers who gas up at the new Caltex service station within the premises of the newly opened Landers Superstore in Paco, Manila, which will cater exclusively to the superstore’s registered members.

by Alvin I. Dacanay The newest films of Nora Aunor and Eugene “Uge” Domingo, a major winner at a recent international film festival, and Star Cinema’s latest production are among the eight diverse movies selected from 27 full-length features and introduced last Friday as the official entries to the 42nd Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF).

More than a month after his latest film Ma’ Rosa was chosen as the Philippines’ official foreign-language film entry to the 89th Academy Awards, prize-winning director Brillante Ma. Mendoza on November 3 became the first beneficiary of the Film Development Council of the Philippines’ (FDCP) Golden Statue Assistance Program in an effort to boost promotion for the movie.

Filipinos are known all over the world for their musical abilities. Blessed with unbelievable vocal range, Filipinos are recognized to be great singers, no matter where they are. Not only that, their originality and ingenuity in creating beats, melodies and tempos are seen as unique.

If you think you know Bonifacio Global City (BGC) only as a leading financial and commercial district, then prepare to rethink that, because its managers are set to present it as a rising center for culture and the arts when it holds the fifth BGC Passionfest—and opens its newly built arts complex— from November 25 to 27.

For the fourth time in its 51-year history, the University of the Philippines (UP) Press was named Publisher of the Year by the National Book Development Board (NBDB) after winning in a third of the 26 categories in the 35th National Book Awards.

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) celebrates the birth month of National Artist for Visual Arts Carlos “Botong” Francisco with the exhibit Homebound: A Survey of Recent Developments in Angono Contemporary Art, which opened at the Bulwagang Carlos V. Francisco (Little Theater Lobby) on November 9 and will run until February 12, 2017.