The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

After Filipina tennis prodigy Alex Eala reached halfway through the rare feat of winning all four juniors Grand Slams, Alex is setting her sights at making waves at the Wimbledon Championships in London next month.

Filipino-Japanese karateka Junna Tsukii will not be going to the Olympics after failing to be included in the official list of complete participants that was recently released.

UP professor Solita Monsod presented empirical arguments in her recent Inquirer column why the Philippines is again the “sick man of Asia”.

The government should adopt a policy similar to the one being implemented by the United States on inbound visitors, who may opt to get vaccinated in American airports when they arrive, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said Wednesday.

The Philippines is launching its 7th and biggest satellite into space in 2023, according to the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA).

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is advising the public to be cautious of chain distribution plans or pyramid sales schemes circulating online as complaints involving such received by the agency have more than doubled as of end-April.

President Duterte’s chief economic manager justified the multi-trillion peso borrowings for the year, citing the national government needed to rely on financing to the bridge the widening gap between revenues and expenditures.

Local exporters are incurring higher costs and losses due to disruptions in the global container shipping industry.

There would be no new, or higher, taxes in the remainder of President Rodrigo Duterte’s term, which will end in 2022, the Department of Finance (DOF) announced on Tuesday (June 15).

The Department of Energy (DoE) on Monday reiterated its previous pronouncement that the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) should comply with its obligations and reduce its transmission fees if the latter is keen on helping consumers.