THE local economy’s sources of growth during the first six months would have again propelled it to a minimum 5.5-percent expansion for the third quarter, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Romulo L.

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MULTILATERAL development banks (MDBs) said they are bracing for economic spillovers from the escalating Middle East conflict ...

THE Middle East crisis is expected to squeeze jobs and incomes across Asia and the Pacific, including the Philippines, with ...

MORE than a dozen major American companies are signaling interest in joining the Pax Silica initiative and the broader Luzon ...

THE Philippine economy is staring at another year of underperformance, with economists from De La Salle University (DLSU) ...

NO new Senate leadership shakeup took place on Monday, contrary to weekend speculations in social media, but 23 senators ...

WITH the government losing a total of P141 billion from illicit cigarettes and vape products over the past two years, ...

THE Visayas grid was again placed under yellow alert on Monday due to thin supply as 12 power plants are still on forced outage, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) reported. This, ...

President Lai Ching-te said Taiwan would set up a sovereign wealth fund to help its companies expand globally—a move that ...

A slate of incoming power projects across the Visayas grid—including a new plant in Toledo City, Cebu and additional ...

HIGHER United States Treasury yields on prospects of rate hikes and the increase in global oil prices fueled the strength of ...