Barbie wasn’t in the mood to celebrate — even if Ken showed up with Hot Wheels and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Investors weren’t feeling festive either.
Business, not beach selfies, took the spotlight as the ASEAN Tourism Forum Travel Exchange 2026 closed in Cebu with P1.44 billion in partial sales leads, signaling brisk commercial momentum for Philippine and regional tourism.
Valentine’s Day is not just a celebration of romance. It is a full-scale logistics marathon, complete with ticking clocks, soaring demand, and very little room for error.
State-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (PSALM) Corp. reduced its financial obligations to P260.6 billion as of end-December 2025, down 4.9 percent or P13.4 billion from P274 billion in 2024.
Just hours after the US Supreme Court struck down his global tariff regime, President Donald Trump did what markets have come to expect and went bigger.
East West Banking Corp., the country’s 11th largest lender by assets, capped 2025 with a 21 percent jump in net income to P9.2 billion, powered by robust core revenues, double-digit fee growth and tighter cost discipline, underscoring the bank’s expanding earnings engine in a competitive market.
Rafael Fernandez de Mesa likes to open with a joke. In another life, he says, he might have been the first Rafa people talked about. Instead, that distinction belongs to Rafael Nadal. Fernandez de Mesa found his arena elsewhere, trading baseline rallies for balance sheets.
Gilbert had barely settled into his seat on a Friday evening flight bound for Manila, pleased to be heading home after several days of meetings in Mindanao. An hour later, the single-aisle jet remained parked on the tarmac at Francisco Bangoy International Airport, engines silent, cabin restless.