WASHINGTON—The Senate has passed about $9 billion in federal spending cuts requested by President Donald Trump, including ...

FURTHER taxing online gambling could contribute at least P20 billion more in annual revenues, as the Marcos Jr.

THE Bank of the Philippine Islands reported last Thursday that its net income for the first half of the year through June ...

WITH his issuance of Proclamation No. 973, series of 2025, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has officially declared the country’s population has reached 112.73 million nationwide. Under the two-page ...

To prevent the possible paralysis of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) due to lack of quorum, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has named Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines ...

WITH two weeks left to negotiate with Washington, Philippine industries are not waving the white flag yet even after the country’s Asean counterparts Indonesia and Vietnam, its toughest competitors on ...

THE Department of Finance (DOF) made clear that interest income from bank deposits—not the savings—will be taxed at a uniform rate of 20 percent to “correct an unfair system” that favors the rich. In ...

RESOURCES held by the Philippine financial system reached the P34-trillion mark as of May 2025, preliminary data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed. Total funds and assets of the ...

The recent agreement between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and China on a Single Draft Code of Conduct (COC) Negotiating Text marks a significant milestone in a complex and ...

AS the P50 daily wage increase in Metro Manila took effect on July 16, labor groups warned that unorganized workers may end up excluded from the full benefit of the adjustment if employers fail to ...

I first encountered the term “Pareto Principle” in my MBA class many summers ago. Named after the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, the principle is also known as the “80/20 Rule,” a concept that ...

THE United Coconut Association of the Philippines (Ucap) remains hopeful that President Marcos Jr.’s visit to the United States will yield positive results. This, after the US administration reduced ...