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.
Higher US tariffs and stubbornly high production costs are tightening the vise on Philippine garment exporters, even as shipments are estimated to have topped USD1 billion in 2025.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will hold a public scoping on January 27, 2026, for the proposed expansion of the Sangilo gold and silver mines in Itogon, Benguet.