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MANILA, Philippines — The Sy family’s SM Investments Corp., the parent company of the SM Group, is pushing for regional growth mainly through its
Jose Concepcion Jr. (Joecon), a true icon, should continue to inspire us to action. At his funeral mass last March 11, the presiding priest said Joeco
BEIJING — New bank lending in China fell more than expected in February from a record high the previous month, even as the central bank seeks to spu
HELSINKI — The European Central Bank council last week began a discussion on when to reduce interest rates, council member Olli Rehn said on Frida
TOKYO — McDonald’s said on Friday it had halted operations at many of its stores in Japan due to a system disruption and was facing technical ou
BENGALURU — Indian small- and mid-cap share indexes have lost about $70 billion in combined market value this week, after the country’s markets re
Swisscom said on Friday it will buy Vodafone Italia for 8 billion euros ($8.7 billion) and merge the business with its Italian subsidiary Fastweb. The
Oil prices edged lower on Friday but were on track to gain nearly 4 percent for the week, boosted by the International Energy Agency revising its 2024
TOKYO — Nissan Motor is considering seeking a business partnership with Honda Motor on key components for electric vehicles to cut production cost
TOKYO — Japan’s annual labor talks with major firms ended up with pay raises of 5.28 percent, the highest in 33 years , the country’s largest un
TOKYO — The Bank of Japan is close to ending eight years of negative interest rate policy, with expected historical wage hikes heightening the pro
MANILA, Philippines — The government’s fiscal position snapped eight straight months of deficit to post a budget surplus of P88 billion in Janua
MANILA, Philippines — Reorganizing the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) and elevating its status into a department could ensure th
SYDNEY — New Zealand will report “significantly slower” economic growth for the next few years when it releases a pre-Budget update in two wee
TOKYO — Asian stocks slumped on Friday, tracking tech-led declines on Wall Street overnight after hotter-than-forecast U.S. inflation knocked back b
SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE — China’s central bank on Friday left a key policy rate unchanged as expected when rolling over maturing medium-term loans. T
Oil prices edged lower on Friday but were on track to gain nearly 4 percent for the week as sharp declines in U.S. crude and fuel inventories, drone s
WASHINGTON — JPMorgan Chase & Co has been fined $348.2 million by a pair of U.S. bank regulators over its inadequate program to monitor firm and c
MANILA, Philippines — Aboitiz InfraCapital is optimistic that its unsolicited proposal to operate and maintain the Laguindingan International Airpor
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday said she expects the cost of rental housing – the single largest contributor to inflation – to m
