SHARES continued to rally on Thursday, tracking Wall Street’s performance, even as other markets in the region closed lower amid the crisis faced by China’s Evergrande. The 30-member Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) Read More

THE PESO slipped against the dollar ahead of the release of the government’s September cash operations report. — BW FILE PHOTO THE PESO moved sideways versus the greenback on Thursday, with market participants awaiting the Read More

HIGHER fuel prices are not going to show up immediately in grocery prices, the Philippine Amalgamated Supermarkets Association (Pagasa) said. Steven T. Cua, Pagasa president, said in a television interview Thursday that price hikes for Read More

PHILSTAR THE PRESIDENT’S spokesman said Thursday that turning away unvaccinated workers is not authorized by law, contradicting remarks made by the head of the government’s pandemic containment effort. Palace Spokesman Herminio L. Roque, Read More

PEXELS-ICONCOM THE BUREAU of Customs collected P14.3 billion worth of tariffs from 2.18 million metric tons of rice imports as of early October, exceeding the year-earlier performance and adding to the excess funding available to the Read More

DPWH PRESIDENT RODRIGO R. Duterte led the inauguration Thursday of the 7.42-kilometer Sariaya Bypass Road in Lucena City. The road, which is expected to serve around 15,000 motorists and commuters daily traveling within the Calabarzon region, Read More

Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi ENERGY SECRETARY Alfonso G. Cusi reiterated his push for nuclear power, saying it will reduce dependence on imported fuel. “We are pushing for nuclear because that will reduce our imports of Read More

THE ENERGY Regulatory Commission (ERC) has ordered the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) to pay a fine of P980,000 after a unit of the Malaya Thermal Power Plant (MTPP) exceeded its allowable Read More

BW FILE PHOTO THE National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) said it will charge defaulting customers an interest rate of 11.5% for the three months to December. In the grid operator’s Oct. 7 customer bulletin Read More

PHILIPPINE STAR FILE PHOTO PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Duterte would have to decide whether to publish the results of a Justice department investigation of at least 300 more drug-related deaths, the agency said on Thursday. “We submitted Read More