The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

The Caltex brand of US oil giant Chevron has reformulated its signature additive package with the addition of a new Clean & Glide technology. 

A self-contained classroom, aptly named EGG, will be sent to remote areas through a partnership between the Department of Education (DepEd) and Microsoft Philippines.

New York City—It is something else to watch CNN International or Fox News in the comfort of a Filipino home across the vast Pacific, protected on our eastern flank by a great ocean, and on our western shores by several seas and continents, creating a physical barrier that allows our myopic infatuation with local politics to insulate us from world …

Like me, most people perceive billionaires as simply waving a hand for their whims to materialize; whatever they do hardly figures in thought. And because the senses, especially of sight, translate wealth by sheer magnitude or sheen, it finds equivalents in everyday things.

Is businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan gearing up for a head-on collision with the newly installed administration of President Rody Duterte?

Toward the end of its six years in office, the Aquino administration boasted of its “legacy of inclusive growth.” Indeed, for its neoliberal thrusts, the previous administration may have achieved certain economic outcomes.

By Riza Lozada Growth in local trade resulted in foreign- currency (forex) borrowings among local banks to grow 11.4 percent in the first quarter, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported over the weekend.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the change of name of insurance holding company Generali Pilipinas Holding Cp. Inc. (GPHC) to BDO Life Assurance Holdings Corp. (BDO Life Holdings), and its wholly-owned life insurance company, Generali Pilipinas Life Assurance Company Inc. (GPLAC), to BDO Life Assurance Company Inc. (BDO Life), BDO Unibank reported to the Philippine Stock Exchange.

Camarines Norte leads 74 provinces in the early completion of its road projects funded through the P6.5-billion Konkreto at Ayos na Lansangan at Daan Tungo sa Pangkalahatang Kaunlaran (Kalsada) Program, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has announced. 

The Japanese government and the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) recently discussed Japan’s offer of support for the institutionalization of urban infrastructure planning and formulation in Davao City with President Rodrigo R. Duterte.