The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

New York—Coco-Cola’s profit fell in the third quarter as the world’s biggest drink-maker booked charges related to its push to slash costs and reposition its business. The strong dollar also ate into its results. The maker of Sprite, Fanta and Dasani water said that global sales volume rose 3 percent in the period. That reflected a 6-percent increase in non-carbonated …

  Washington—United States Vice President Joe Biden said he won’t be a candidate in the 2016 White House campaign, solidifying Hillary Rodham Clinton’s status as the Democratic front-runner and the party’s likely heir to President Barack Obama’s legacy. 

Longmont, Colorado—In an anonymous office building in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, in a part of Colorado where cattle ranches fade into strip malls, a gravel-voiced man with a Brooklyn accent is moving through the streets of Pyongyang. 

Montreal, Canada—DeMarre Carroll scored 16 points and Kyle Lowry had 13 to lead the Toronto Raptors to a 92-82 win over the Washington Wizards last Friday (last Saturday in Manila) in the final preseason game for both. 

Newport, Rhode Island—Justine Henin and Marat Safin, who each won multiple Grand Slam titles and achieved a No. 1 ranking, were nominated last Friday (last Saturday in Manila) for the International Tennis Hall of Fame. 

Cebu province dominated the first leg of the Peugeot Philippines Tennis Open (PPTO) in Cagayan de Oro (CDO) City, thanks to siblings Bernardine and Sally Mae Siso, former varsity tennis players of the University of San Carlos, who won in the men’s and women’s division, respectively, earning them a ticket to play in the PPTO National Finals in February 2016. 

Let me begin this column by offering congratulations. First, to acclaimed actress Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino, who received a best actress nomination at the Ninth Annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) for her marvelous performance in writer-director Sigrid Andrea P. Bernardo’s offbeat comedy Lorna. Her nomination is the only one the Philippines got this year, and the country’s 10th since the Apsa …

By Yuri Kageyama / The Associated Press Tokyo—Celebrated Filipino director Brillante Ma. Mendoza, taking center stage at the Tokyo International Film Festival, is pursuing a collaboration with other Asian filmmakers—a cultural connection that might be as simple as rice. 

In 1979, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now premiered in Hollywood amid much controversy. Shot in a fishing village in Baler town, Aurora province, the Vietnam War film took way too long to shoot and went way over budget. When Coppola, his actors and his crew left the town in 1977, they had no idea their film would have such an …

Review by Ann Levin / The Associated Press Steve Knopper begins his superb biography of Michael Jackson with an anecdote about a protest against school integration in Jackson’s hometown of Gary, Indiana, in 1927, more than three decades before the singer was born.