The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Geneva—Forget driverless cars, electric power or even green technology. There is no doubt what visitors are coming to see at the glamorous Geneva motor show: supercars.It is the high-end sports cars—impossibly expensive, but seductively powerful—that will get crowds gawking and cameras flashing.

Luis Leoncio A decision by the Department of Energy to send home 16 Chinese nationals working for the privately owned National Grid Corp of the Philippines (NGCP) threatens to exacerbate the tense diplomatic relations between China and the Philippines.

Riza Lozada The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will remain resilient, creative and innovative in its policies to keep the economy at a steady pace of growth.

Riza Lozada The Philippines suffers from a situation where the economy is among the fastest-growing in Asia but the jobless rate of between 6 and 7 percent is also among the region’s highest, according former Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno.

“Dangerously overbroad and fails to address the flaws of the Epira.” This was how Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago described Joint Resolution No. 12 that Malacañang certified as urgent in 2014 seeking emergency powers for President Aquino to resolve the looming energy crisis.

Oliver Teves / The Associated Press Seventy years have not dulled the memories of survivors of the month-long Battle of Manila. The mass killings by Japanese forces, the loved ones lost and the desperation are etched in their minds, as is the elation when American forces finally rescued them in the closing months of World War II.

Riza Lozada The Philippines does not plan to revise soon its existing rules on bank deposit secrecy, according to the Bangko Sentral Ng Pilipinas (BSP).

Riza Lozada The Mindanao grid is considered power deficient for the second straight month due to plant outages causing millions of pesos in business losses.

Dean dela Paz / The Next Page Within days, those massive and debilitating power outages energy officials warned us against which found the aggressive political offensive to grant Benigno Aquino III emergency powers that would, among other things, allow him to siphon off immeasurable funds to procure inordinate generating capacity, should be upon us.

Alegria A. Imperial / Peregrine Notes Wouldn’t you wish you could willfully hibernate, when before your eyes the tiles you have stacked up into an impregnable fort begin to tumble?