The Philippine Competition Commission has given the green light for Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc. to proceed with the acquisition of beverage maker Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines Inc.
Above-target inflation averaging 6 percent in 2023 is forecast in January this year to have averaged no more than 3.6 percent, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said on Wednesday.
Economic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan said Wednesday the political bickering sparked by efforts to revise the 1987 Constitution could undermine the economy, whose growth prospects this year are already under threat from El Nino and global geopolitical risks.
The country's continued economic expansion in 2023, measured as the gross domestic product (GDP), eased sharply to only 5.6 percent in the final quarter and came even lower than the revised output expansion of 6 percent in the third quarter.
The Philippines Statistics Authority on Tuesday announced an upward revision in the third quarter economic growth data, lifting gross domestic production expansion to 6.0 percent in the July-September quarter from an earlier estimate of 5.9 percent.
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.