The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Landbank of the Philip­pines’ (Landbank) Build­ers program was awarded the “Best SME Product” at The Asian Banker’s Phil­ippine Country Awards 2016.

Chinese currency renminbi (RMB) has been in­cluded among the country’s currency reserves in line with the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) inclusion of it in the basket of reserve notes, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) said.

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto blamed the past administration for the slow pace of Yolanda rehabilitation effort.

The Philippine Embassy in Baghdad expressed hope that more Fil- ipino companies would explore investment opportunities in Iraq following the recent inauguration by Manila-based International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) of its USD 130-million port development project Basra.

To minimize delay in project implementation, the Department of Public Works and Highways created a task force that will handle right-of-way acquisition. 

The Department of Public Works and Highways place the partial damaged to infrastructure by typhoon Lawin in Central and Northern Luzon at P870.222 million. 

For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost,” is the penultimate phrase of a short nursery rhyme and an old crusted idiomatic expression that illustrates the distorted trade-offs among choices that people make where they effectively surrender greater causes in pursuit of one lesser and more insignificant. The rhyme starts off with, “For want of a nail, a shoe is …

Or more like retrieving a limb or heart chamber we realize we’ve left behind, which soon metamorphoses into a bunch of regrets, long after we’ve settled into our seats on a flight to another country, where with bursts of Facebook happy-face emoticons, for millennial and youngish septuagenarians, that is, we would begin a new life. 

By Jesse C. Ong His heads-up plays and awesome rebounding might were such a revelation in Ginebra’s triumphant campaign in the recent PBA (Philippine Basketball Association) Governors’ Cup that not a few see great promise in rookie sensation Scottie Thompson early in his cage career. 

Eighty-nine years since legendary football superstar Paulinho Alcantara retired from FC Barcelona, homegrown Filipino booters will once again step on the popular Premiere League team’s pitch, but this time for an advanced training and schooling with some of the Spanish club’s most revered coaches and trainers.