Global growth this year, seen as slow and uneven, is forecast to remain well below the 20-year average of 3.8 percent, according to International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva.
The Philippine labor market in August showed significant improvement from July, with the resumption of farm activity and the start of the new school year helping generate more employment for Filipinos, the statistics authority said Friday.
Oil and rice price shocks sending the September inflation rate sharply higher to 6.1 percent are seen dissipating in October when more data is captured reflecting the macroeconomic lay of the land, officials said on Thursday.
Headline inflation accelerated to the upper limit of official forecast and hit 6.1 percent in September and well above market consensus of only 5.3 percent, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Thursday.
The chairman of the House of Representatives’ ways and means committee expects a new bill providing incentives to San Miguel Corp.’s Bulacan Airport City...
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.