|
|
|
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
|
|
|
DBS: Peso to further
drop
on stock market weakness
|
|
By Chino S. Leyco Reporter
THE local currency will further
test its limits in the coming days as the
weakness in Philippine stocks market threatens to pull it down, the
Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) said Tuesday.
In a note, DBS said the peso is
no longer ignoring the weakness in the local bourse after the index,
jittery over rising inflation, fell past its 18-month low at 2773.17
Monday.
|
|
 Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
NG interest
payments on loans up in 1st quarter
|
|
LOAN interest payments of the national government
increased year on year in January to March despite the significant
appreciation of the peso against the greenback.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
Metrobank board
approves Tier 2 capital issuance
|
|
METROBANK Bank and Trust Corp. (Metrobank), the
Philippines’ largest bank, will borrow money by issuing bonds to
institutional investors in order to enhance its capital adequacy and
partly finance maturity payments.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
Tourism industry
told to heed signs of global warming
|
|
BANGKOK: Nobel Peace Prize recipient Rajendra
Pachauri Tuesday warned tourism industry chiefs they need to reduce
their impact on climate change as consumers become more
environmentally aware.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
USTR: Quiapo
notorious peddler of fake goods
|
|
STREET stalls in Quiapo are among the most notorious
markets for
fake and pirated goods in the world, according to this year’s
Special 301 Report of the Office of the United States Trade
Representative.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
LandBank sets no
limit for agri support
|
|
STATE-RUN LandBank of the Philippines said Tuesday
that it will not set a limit on financing for agriculture sector
amid rice crisis this year.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
First RP project
to cut carbon emissons launchedas
|
|
Renewable energy firm Pangea Green Energy is set to
inaugurate today in Quezon City the Philippines’ first Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM) project,...
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
Transparency in
petroleum sector urged
|
|
A CONSUMER advocate group wants the government to
show data on oil companies’ actual inventories to ascertain the
legality of increasing pump prices.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
March preneed
sales surge year on year led by life plans
|
|
Preneed sales for the month of March experienced
double-digit
growth from last year as life plans more than doubled its sales
during the period, the Securities and Exchange Commission said on
Tuesday
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
Shang Properties
profits jump more than half
|
|
Profits of Shang Properties Inc. surged by more than
half last year when it adopted new accounting standards and posted
higher rental income, the real estate developer disclosed to the
Philippine Stock Exchange.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
BOC Davao faces
lawsuit arising fromproperty buyers’complaint
|
|
The Bank of Commerce branch in Davao faces complaints
from property owners who claim the bank sold their piece of real
estate to another buyer.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
Eight Philippine
mango exporters
granted permit to ship fruit to China
|
|
THE General Administration of Quality Supervision,
Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) of the People’s Republic of
China has approved eight Philippine mango companies to export fresh
mangoes to China.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
Oil prices ease
as Scottish refinery strike nears end
|
|
SINGAPORE: World oil prices eased slightly on Tuesday
as Scottish refinery workers prepared to end a two-day strike which
helped send prices to record highs.
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
VIEWS
FROM
A BRIT
By Mike Wootton
|
|
Why there is so
much traffic . . .
|
|
People keep saying to me that I should write about
the traffic in Metro Manila, but I’ve written about that already
and in any event there are volumes of comment on the Metro Manila
traffic situation,...
|
|
Full
Story>>
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
