The Philippines is adjudged to have emerged from the pandemic on strong economic footing based on the preliminary assessment of a four-man visiting team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
House leaders have set aside a portion of the P1.23 billion intelligence fund under next year's proposed budget into programs that help defeat inflation.
Foreign direct investments (FDI), the kind that stays for the long haul, proved weaker in the January-to-July period this year to $4.7 billion from $5.5 billion last year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said on Tuesday.
Headline inflation getting away from the central bank's 2 percent to 4 percent target range this year heightens the likelihood of a change in the monetary policy structure in the Philippines, the analytics unit of the sovereign credit watcher Moody's Investors Service said on Monday.
GCash, the mobile wallet of Globe Telecom Inc. trends on X, formerly Twitter, after its users complained of inability make transactions, whether sending or receiving, since the early morning hours of Monday.
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) on Saturday warned retailers against hoarding essential goods and engaging in profiteering, saying such illegal practices will not be tolerated as global tensions threaten to drive up oil prices and logistics costs.
The Department of Agriculture (DA) launched a major regional development initiative on Thursday, with Secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel Jr. personally overseeing the distribution of over P65 million in agricultural interventions to local farmers and fisherfolk in this town widely recognized as the “rice granary of Albay.”
The Department of Agriculture has imposed a temporary ban on the importation of domestic and wild birds—and their products—from Indiana following confirmed outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza strain.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has received the 2026 “Reserve Manager” award from Central Banking, recognizing the Philippine central bank’s improvements in handling the country’s foreign currency reserves.