The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Fashion has been classified as nonessential during the pandemic, so fashion retailers face the spectre of closed store the past four months.

Singer and company owner Claire Dela Fuente had been sentenced to seven years in prison for tax evasion. 

Alessandra de Rossi and Paolo Contis’ film Through Night and Day has created a stir in the Netflix charts, a delayed blessing two years after the two made the movie.

Under the new normal after the pandemic, Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray named a few places she wants to visit.

The Hundred Islands National Park (HINP) has reopened since July 1, accepting up to 1,000 guests a day or 50% of its original capacity and only from residents from the first district of Pangasinan, according to Miguel Sison, city tourism officer.

The big-ticketed consortium that wants to rehabilitate and redevelop the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) has formally accepted the termination of the original proponent status (OPS) and other approvals earlier granted to them.

Dollar remittances by Filipinos dropped again in April, for the second consecutive month, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

A new consumer behavior has appeared during the lockdown – increase in demand for beer delivery in cities without liquor bans, according to data from AB Heineken, through its partner e-Commerce platform Drinkies.ph.

Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez clarified that barter transactions on the internet are lawful as long as these are done personally and not performed as part of a business.

The pandemic has severely crippled the global economy – with conspiracy theorists blaming China intentionally released the virus to subdue its arch enemy the US by conquering it not my military might but through an invisible weapon – with nations attempting to restart businesses by any means possible.