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Shares of Nike Inc. surged 15 percent on Friday, as investors embraced the company's upbeat outlook and strategic “Win Now” plan, despite a steep drop in both quarterly and full-year earnings for the period ending May 31.

Confidence among Filipino businesses and consumers softened in the second quarter of 2025, according to twin surveys released by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), signaling a more cautious outlook for the economy amid lingering global and domestic headwinds.

St. Luke’s Medical Center, in collaboration with St. Luke’s Foundation, GCash, and Roche, has officially launched "Piso Para sa Kanser: Tuloy ang Laban, Piso ang Pag-asa!"—a nationwide micro-donation campaign to support Filipino cancer patients.

DoubleDragon Corp. founders Tony Tan Caktiong and Edgar “Injap” Sia II led Hotel101 Global executives in ringing the Nasdaq opening bell in New York, marking a major step toward the Filipino company’s anticipated public listing. This follows the U.S. SEC’s June 2 approval of the registration statement for Hotel101 Global’s planned merger with Nasdaq-listed JVSPAC Acquisition Corp., a Hong Kong-based SPAC formed in 2021. The move signals the global ambitions of the Hotel101 brand, known for its standardized hotel concept. “This moment is for every Filipino who dares to dream big,” said Hotel101 Global CEO Hannah Yulo-Luccini at the ceremony.

As the working day drew to a close Friday in Manila, Alex Eala was still hard at work halfway across the world in Eastbourne,...