PHILIPPINE STAR/KRIZ JOHN ROSALESPHILIPPINE SHARES closed higher on the penultimate trading day of 2024 amid hopes for another interest cut to start 2025 and as investors picked up bargains.The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) inched up by 0.06% or 4.11 points to close at
REUTERSTHE PESO surged against the dollar on Thursday to return to the P57 level for the first time in nearly three weeks, supported by remittance inflows amid the holidays.The local unit closed at P57.97 per dollar on Thursday, jumping by 48 centavos from its P58.45
PCOPRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. and his Cabinet officials were ensuring that the Congress-approved budget for 2025 is in line with the Constitution, Malacañang said on Thursday, adding that prudence is highly observed amid the country’s limited fiscal space.Executive Secretary Lucas P. Bersamin made the
Men are at work on a segment of Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City, July 13, 2024. — PHILIPPINE STAR/MIGUEL DE GUZMANBy John Victor D. Ordoñez, ReporterTHE PHILIPPINE government must ensure that the P1.11-trillion budget for the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will not
PIXABAYBy Chloe Mari A. Hufana, ReporterA FORMER congressman criticized the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) plan to procure the United States’ Typhon missile system, warning that such a move risks further entangling the Philippines in dangerous military alliances that threaten national security.“We denounce the
SENATORIAL aspirants endorsed by Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. emerged as the most preferred candidates of Filipinos for the 2025 midterm elections, dominating ten out of 12 spots in the Social Weather Station’s (SWS) December survey.In the SWS poll, conducted in partnership with think
IAN SCHNEIDER-UNSPLASHFIRECRACKER-RELATED injuries in the Philippines have risen to nearly 70 in less than a week, the Department of Health (DoH) said on Thursday.Data from 62 sentinel sites, under DoH monitoring, showed that 26 injuries were registered today, bringing the total number of cases to
BCDA.GOV.PHAN ETHNOBOTANICAL learning facility is expected to rise in New Clark City to help capacitate Aeta communities in Pampanga and Tarlac, the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) said.In a statement on Thursday, the BCDA said it signed memoranda of agreement with the Department of
FREEPIKBAGUIO CITY — Hedcor Group (Hedcor), the renewable energy asset manager of AboitizPower, and Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. said it has invested over P1.4 million to improve healthcare in its host communities in the highland Cordillera. Through medical and dental missions, as well as essential medicines
PHILSTAR FILE PHOTOCOTABATO CITY — Policemen and local officials seized P3.4 million worth of crystal meth (shabu) from a dealer entrapped in Barangay Kabuntalan in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte on Wednesday afternoon.Brig. Gen. Romeo J. Macapaz, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region
Navigating an election year with the subsequent budget announcement, a later Black Friday and Christmas than usual, a recession, a cost-of-living crisis, and a multitude of internal issues that require consideration from a business owner. Navigation brings failure, but it also brings learning.So, what have
Britons are expected to shell out a total of £4.6 billion in the Boxing Day sales this year, with the average shopper forecast to spend £236, new research from Barclays shows. Although that figure is marginally lower than in 2023, when £4.7 billion was spent, it