The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

There’s that obvious lack of demonstrated empathy. As if he never even tried to care, choosing to ogle shiny cars over the nobler duty and responsibility to show sympathy and compassion amid profound grief caused by the stupidest exercise of patronage and partisanship that led to the death of the Mamasapano 44.

An apparent protest behind the “bride with veil” emoji, intimating as the only dream goal for girls, seems to have struck a profound chord with millions having clicked on the ‘Like’ button of the new video campaign “to empower girls” at #LikeAGirl, which Procter&Gamble’s Always brand launched last year. 

Barely two weeks before the general elections of 2016, senator and five-star hotel mutineer Antonio Trillanes IV is creating waves by exploding allegations against the frontrunner in the presidential race. 

Globe Telecom’s Binondo initiative reflects the company’s innovative focus on its business game, the reason it continues to be viewed with enthusiasm by market analysts. That Binondo initiative, whereby the Ayala-led company is leading off its nationwide fiber broadband technology roll-out in Binondo, the heart of Chinatown in the metropolis, shows a compelling business narrative about Globe’s future. 

By Riza Lozada and Jerry Maglunog The series of cases of breach in the security of bank accounts has alarmed banks and their depositors, prompting top lender Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co. (Metrobank) to issue an assurance and advisory to its clients and shareholders that the bank has “sufficient maker-checker controls in place.”

By Jerry Maglunog  The Philippines has only 7 million credit-card holders, almost a third of whom own cards issued by the Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co. (Metrobank).

Before leaving office in June, President Aquino can still generate more than P1 billion in private funds for improvement of water services to 20 million Filipinos with just a stroke of a pen, according to Sen. Ralph Recto. 

The national budget will fund P586 million of the total P4.9 billion cost for the construction of the pioneering Panguil Bay Bridge project in Northern Mindanao, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said during the ceremonial signing Friday of the loan agreement between the government and the Export-Import Bank of Korea-Economic Development Cooperation Fund (Kexim-EDCF). 

The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) announced that P16.7 billion will be allocated in the 2017 national budget to implement Bottom-up Budgeting (BuB) and the Konkreto at Ayos na Lansangan ang Daan Tungo sa Pangkalahatang Kaunlaran (Kalsada) program for cities nationwide. 

The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) continues to provide technical assistance to local governments, this time to provincial governments on local road management (LRM) in the implementation of Konkreto at Ayos na Lansangan, ang Daan tungo sa Pangkalahatang Kaunlaran (Kalsada).