Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, chairman of the diversified Ayala Corp., said the group is prioritizing resilience and disciplined capital deployment as global volatility and softening demand reshape operating conditions.
Capital discipline and strategic investments drove Ayala Corp.’s performance last year, with the listed conglomerate spending P92.9 billion on expansions across residential, leasing, hospitality, and estate development. The outlay underscores the group’s confidence in long-term growth even amid market volatility.
For a country where typhoons feel like subscription services and earthquakes show up uninvited, connectivity is not a luxury. It is survival. This year, help is not coming by truck or chopper. It is coming straight from the sky.
Globe Telecom closed 2025 with solid earnings despite heavier depreciation and financing costs, underscoring how scale, data-led growth and digital finance continue to anchor profitability even as margins faced pressure.
Globe Telecom Inc. has completed its joint venture with Singapore-based technology services firm NCS Pte. Ltd., strengthening its push to scale advanced ICT capabilities across the Asia-Pacific region.
ASEAN trade ministers have signed a landmark Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA), establishing common rules for online commerce, digital payments and cross-border data flows in a bid to double Southeast Asia’s digital economy to USD2 trillion by 2030.
The Philippines and Canada have concluded negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), setting the stage for expanded market access, greater investment flows and new opportunities for exporters, service providers and small businesses.
Southeast Asia needs an estimated USD7.1 trillion in infrastructure investment through 2040, but a shortage of commercially viable projects is preventing governments from mobilizing enough private capital to meet the region’s growing needs, Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masato Kanda said Saturday.
If the past week's tea leaves had a message, it was this: ay, naku. The economy served up a one-two punch of sluggish growth and runaway prices, then appeared to ask whether we wanted seconds. Monday brought third-quarter GDP growth of 2.1 percent, down from 2.4 percent in the previous quarter and below the 2.8 percent consensus forecast. That marked five consecutive quarters of slowing growth and the weakest performance since the pandemic. October inflation, meanwhile, averaged 7.8 percent. Some wanted the monetary authorities to wield a bigger stick through a jumbo rate hike. Tame prices without choking an already parched economy? Sige, good luck. With stocks around 5,600 and the peso near P64 to the dollar, even sharply cheaper gasoline felt less like salvation than a promo expiring next week.