The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

The Philippine Board of In­vestments (BOI) is implement­ing a number of initiatives to further stabilize and fast track the socio-economic rehabili­tation and re-development in the areas devastated by super typhoon Yolanda back in 2013.

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto has called for the item­ization of Yolanda reconstruc­tion projects in next year’s proposed P37.2 billion Ca­lamity Fund “in order to com­plete all rehabilitation work by end of 2017.”

When Rodrigo R. Duterte first flew off the han­dle with his un­mitigating tempestuous and temperamental tirades against the United States, these had all began in the public’s eye during the presidential cam­paign where he accused the Americans of undue interfer­ence in a sovereign political exercise, commenting as they did on a statement spawned in at least two rallies. Claim­ing entitlement …

For the record, we would like to say that we have much respect for Supreme Court As­sociate Justice Marvic Leonen. After all, he is one the young­est ever to be named to the High Court.

I fussed as we circled round to the visitor’s center, hop­ing I’d find it tucked some­where. Of course, it wasn’t, as I later learned because it’s in Hodgeville, Kentucky, where he was born, now a living farm. How then could Hild­ene’s “Gilded Age” opulence fit into what I knew of Lincoln’s beginnings? I later realized that the contradiction between what …

By Jesse C. Ong With no indication that the trou­ble will be over soon, the Senate decided to step in to investi­gate the turmoil surrounding the coming elections of the Philippine Olympic Commit­tee (POC).

CJ De Tomas successfully de­fended his URCC flyweight title after beating gritty challenger Alvin Ramirez in the main event of URCC 28 at the Marriott Grand Ballroom recently.

Tagum City will be home to 11,332 delegates for about a week when it hosts this year’s national finals of the Batang Pinoy.

The Philippine Sports Commis­sion (PSC) has allocated PHP50 million for the staging of this year’s National Batang Pinoy Games in Davao del Norte.

Filipino-American tennis player Treat Huey and Belarussian part­ner Max Mirnyi on Monday completed the doubles field in the ATP Tour Finale slated Nov. 13-20 in London.