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    Barbie’s holiday hangover hits Mattel

    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.

    Dinner has gone rogue, IKEA survey finds

    The humble dining table is facing an existential crisis.

    Cebu Travel Mart nets P1.4B in deals

    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.

    Roses, chocolates, and record-breaking rushes

    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.

    PSALM cuts debt to P260.6B, boosts support for energy sector

    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.

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    Trump sidesteps court, raises global tariff to 15%

    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.

    EastWest profit surges on strong momentum

    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: The other Rafa who built his own court

    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.

    When safety grounds flights, bills soar

    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.
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