Big miners move to assure critics
By Janina C. Lim
Reporter
THE Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (CoMP) will investigate complaints against members and invited journalists to visit their sites, in...
Slowdown-hit Indian economy counts costs of stronger rupee
NEW DELHI -- India鈥檚 stronger currency has become a threat for its growth aspirations, piling pressure on the central bank to aggressively intervene in...
Poll: Aug. inflation could be 3-month top
By Melissa Luz T. Lopez
Senior Reporter
THE OVERALL HIKE in prices of widely used goods and services could have quickened in August to its fastest...
Farm chief says bout with bird flu 鈥榦ver鈥
THE DEPARTMENT of Agriculture (DA) has eased restrictions on the transport of poultry from bird flu-infected areas in Central Luzon, declaring the emergency 鈥渙fficially...
Customs told to collect P50 billion monthly until December
NEWLY SEATED Customs Commissioner Isidro S. Lape帽a must raise at least P50.1 billion in monthly revenues for the last four months of the year...
Bulls see room to run after 8-month gain in emerging marts
SAO PAOLO -- You have to go back to 2004 for the last time emerging-market (EM) stocks racked up a longer series of monthly...
What slowdown? Factories chug along as global demand holds
LONDON/HONG KONG -- Factories across Asia and Europe cranked up production last month as global demand remained strong, confounding expectations growth may have peaked....
Price hikes could have picked up in Aug.
HIGHER oil and electricity costs as well as rising rice prices likely drove inflation faster in August, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said...
Companies advised to give back more
BOSSES of some of the country鈥檚 conglomerates believe that businesses 鈥渃an do more鈥 to improve lives as they scour the fast-growing general economy for...
Fed likely to see little change in economy, policy course after the flood
WASHINGTON -- The economic fallout from Hurricane Harvey will make the Federal Reserve鈥檚 job more difficult when it meets in three weeks, but US...
China factory growth unexpectedly speeds up in further global boost
BEIJING -- Growth in China鈥檚 manufacturing sector unexpectedly accelerated in August, suggesting the world鈥檚 second-largest economy is still expanding at a healthy clip despite...
Palace, Congress agree on target bills
MALACA脩ANG and Congress last Monday agreed on 28 legislative priorities for the term of President Rodrigo R. Duterte that ends in mid-2022, the National...