The price of road use

By Marvin Tort
Over the years it has been called many things: motor vehicle registration fee, motor vehicle user’s charge, and by 2024, motor vehicle road user’s...

Term deposit yields slip before inflation report

TERM DEPOSIT YIELDS slipped on Wednesday amid expectations of slower December headline inflation, which could lead to monetary policy easing this year. The term deposit...

Dining In/Out (01/04/24)

The Peninsula celebrates the Feast of the Three Kings THE PENINSULA Manila brings the holiday season to a close with the Celebration of the Feast...

Angel investor community to help foster Philippine startups’ growth

PRIVATE-PUBLIC startup platform QBO Innovation Hub wants to build a community of angel investors to help foster growth for the Philippines’ startup industry. The company...

Top 10 trends in global public debt in 2023

By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
Continuing this column’s “Top 10” series for 2023, we look at government debt indicators. Below are the 20 countries with the largest public debt...

Gov’t fully awards fresh 3-year bonds

THE GOVERNMENT made a full award of the new three-year bonds it offered on Wednesday even as the coupon was higher than secondary market...

PhilPaSS Plus transactions climb to P129 trillion in Q3

TRANSACTIONS done through the Philippine Payment and Settlement System (PhilPaSS) Plus reached P129 trillion in the third quarter of 2023 amid the increase in...

Transforming PHL banking through data democratization

By Praveen Kumar
DATA democratization is like providing all team members in a basketball game with the same coach’s playbook. Limiting access to only select players hinders...

Local stocks decline on PMI data, profit taking

STOCKS dropped on Wednesday amid data showing slower Philippine manufacturing activity growth, profit taking after Tuesday’s rally and amid a trading halt that was...

‘Improved planning’ needed after Panay outages — NGCP

THE National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) has called for improved energy resource planning following the outages on Tuesday at multiple power plants...

Market for AS power enters pilot operations

THE pilot stage of the market for reserve power has been launched, with full commercial operations targeted for later in the month, the Independent...

Exportable agri commodities focus of new DA dev’t plan

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said it is seeking to expand agricultural and fisheries exports and has set into motion the drafting of the...