The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Hong kong—The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) government welcomed a cap on trips to Hong Kong by residents of neighboring Shenzhen city and vowed to continue curbing cross-boarder parallel trading.

For far too long, more as a function of the latent external global perspective on debt and deleveraging as a result of an inordinately long recovery in the financial markets, key policy rates, those that determine such mundane matters as bank-savings rates, have been sorely dismal.

This has been written over and over again. Told many times before. Manny Pacquiao is too good to be true. He’s more of a pastor than a boxer. Did one ever saw a fighter like him? Even Jack Dempsey boasted a little, Joe Louis, too.

After a dismal seventh overall finish in the Myanmar Southeast Asian Games two years ago, the Philippines is determined to bounce back with at least a fifth place target in the 28th SEAGames slated on June 5-15 in Singapore.

India’s ministry of finance has decided against imposing safeguard duties on cold-rolled flat stainless-steel products imported from viet nam and some other countries, according to the viet nam competition authority.

The scorching summer heat has already set in, and that means more people are heading to the beach. Unfortunately, many Philippine beaches will most likely be filled with people by this time.

If asked, I would look up but unseeing the sky as I search within me for an answer. Maybe three weeks ago, I did but to browse for new items at the Gift Shop, use the washroom, check for new titles, and then cross the famed lobby of the Vancouver Central Library downtown to one of the cafes for a …

Barely six months before the filing of Certificates of Candidacy in October this year, Sen. Grace Poe is, without a doubt, the Liberal Party’s best bet in the presidential election of 2016. Senator Poe has seen her numbers jump by 10 percentage points to 31 percent in the latest Social Weather Stations survey. She is now tantalizingly within striking distance …

By Arvin T. Ello / Correspondent Two years after it wowed audiences as a one-act play staged at the ninth edition of the Virgin Labfest, graphic novelist Carlo Vergara’s Kung Paano Ako Naging Leading Lady is set to return next month as a full-length musical produced by Manila’s newest theater company Dalanghita Productions, in cooperation with the Philippine Educational Theater …

By Luis Leoncio The local banking system is healthy overall as a result of measures the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) had taken, including the imposition of a strict requirement to ensure that Philippine banks are on par with international standards. But BSP records show that not only small banks, but even those considered “too big to fail” have fallen below …