The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Mass-housing proponent 8990 Holdings Inc. booked a 74-percent increase in net income for the third quarter to P1.02 billion from P589 million a year ago on the back of a sustained 60-percent gross and a 45-percent net margin for the past three quarters. 8990 is traded in the PSE under the ticker name House.

Jonathan Fahey New York—At some point this will end, perhaps even soon. The price of gasoline will not fall to zero.

Dean dela Paz / The Next Page It was rather telling that in the midst of ostentatious and indecent plenty, under the glistening Palace chandeliers, the most luxurious coiffures, the reddest rouge and the stiffest starch set upon the most portly and powerful, the most influential, and in some, the wealthiest and fattest pork barrel-fed politicians, the Holy Father, iconic …

Alegria A.Imperial / Peregrine Notes Another gray sky blankets Vancouver. Through the blinds, a slivered world of bare trees, bland walls of glass divided in parts by empty alleys as if evacuated, belie a fresh day, which I suppose has just risen a vast ocean away; I imagine another gold-ish day swaths Manila, sustaining the serene haloed air. The hosts …

Ed Javier / Where I Stand For a brief while, the country focused on what really matters to the ordinary Filipino: food. Just before the papal visit, Sen. Grace Poe called on her colleagues in the Senate to address hunger woes besetting our countrymen, particularly our children.

Edmund Tayao / Mettle Works Why do we measure? Why do we need to determine whether one is big or small, tall or short? When do we say that it is substantial or insignificant? We measure for purposes of comparison? We compare for purposes of reference? We need reference to determine how to go about doing things? Certainly, measurement is …

Sebastian Santiago Not a few may have considered as ill-advised Wesley So’s decision to drop out of school and go full-time professional. But only a year after making that controversial choice, the Filipino chess prodigy has shown that it made sense after all.

A Kawhi Leonard play-alike gets to strut his wares tomorrow as the bigger, power playing reinforcements return to the local hardcourt at the start of the Philippine Basketball Association’s Commissioners Cup at the Mall of Asia Arena.

While Manny Pacquiao’s former strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza is painting a grim scenario of the ongoing Mayweather-Pacquiao talks, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum believes the contract will be signed this week.

The A7 uses sensors, radars and a front-facing camera as “eyes” and advanced computer technology to intelligently negotiate traffic. A self-driving Audi A7 traveled from Silicon Valley to the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, while Mercedes-Benz and Ford also made announcements about autonomous technology, reports Time.