Banco De Oro Universal Bank (BDO Unibank) on Friday bared a new policy against financing the construction of new coal-fired power plants as a matter of course going forward.
Inflation, or the rate of change in prices, is projected to range around the 4 percent mark in the second quarter this year, according to experts such as those from the analytics arm of the credit watcher Moody's Investors Service.
The rate at which prices change across the Philippines pushed past expert projections in February, averaging higher to 3.4 percent for the month from only 2.8 percent in January, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Friday.
The country's insurance penetration rate, defined as premium written as percent of local output growth or the gross domestic product (GDP), diminished further in 2023 to only 1.68 percent from 1.81 percent in 2023.
The Philippines ranks among the weakest across the Asia-Pacific region in the important metric of transparency, which measures whether governments and their officials are forthright and accountable, according to Moody’s Analytics.
Damage to agriculture from the combined effects of Typhoons Crising, Dante, and Emong, along with the southwest monsoon (habagat), has reached ₱3 billion, according to a 31 July advisory from the Department of Agriculture (DA).
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is calling for urgent amendments to the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL), warning that the current structure threatens the survival of the local rice industry even with positive production forecasts for the year.
The Philippine Airlines (PAL) reported a 48 percent year-on-year increase in net income to $60 million in the second quarter of 2025, marking its 15th consecutive profitable quarter. The growth was driven primarily by a 9 percent rise in passenger volume to 4.4 million, despite pressures from softening international yields.
The Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC) on Thursday reported attracting ₱1.19 billion (US$56.71 million) in new investments in the first six months this year following its strategic rebranding as an aviation-focused development agency.