Category: Stock Analysis
Primaries that affect the world
ISABELLA FISCHER-UNSPLASH The Republican party is off to a hot start in its search for its standard bearer for the US presidency in the general…
Mighty dollar can fight off the digital upstarts
PROPONENTS of de-dollarization might resent America’s exorbitant privilege all they want. But what can they do about it? Analysts usually trace the US currency’s hegemony…
NGCP, low power generation, and the Maharlika Fund
Last week, the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) was a hot item. See for instance these reports in BusinessWorld, “Senate probe sought on…
Not a deadly sin?
PRO-CHURCH MEDIA-UNSPLASH CAN one of the seven deadly sins — not gluttony or sloth — be turned into a motivational tool? Envy can be transformed…
Understanding the US debt crisis
CHRISTINE ROY-UNSPLASH (Part 1) The timing was perfect. As I was dumbfounded, as most economists were, about the ongoing US debt crisis, I received a…
Proactive defense and its implications for the country’s cybersecurity strategy
GUERRILLABUZZ-UNSPLASH The recent hacking incidents affecting the country’s law enforcement agencies and one of its online payment providers should serve as a reminder that in…
Don’t dismiss the fury over Fukushima’s water
MORE THAN 12 years after the disaster that closed Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the country will soon dispose of one of the most…
BSP Circular No. 1171 amends foreign exchange regulations
PHILIPPINE STAR/ MIGUEL DE GUZMAN Over the past few years, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has undertaken various liberalization measures to ease foreign exchange…
New directions for a rebounding economy
PHILIPPINE STAR/ EDD GUMBAN As the Philippine economy rebounds from the deepest COVID-induced recession among our neighbors, we now see GDP growth that so far…
Don’t pitch jets against pets
IF you’re going to try and defend your industry’s carbon emissions, you’d do well not to aim at people’s beloved pets. But that’s exactly what…
The digital future, rising productivity and economic growth
Technology modernization, like the transformation of farm tilling from animals to crude hand tractors to modern fast tractors, always leads to lower cultivation time, less…
Age of AI
ANDREA DE SANTIS-UNSPLASH FOR DECADES, the idea of computers seemingly becoming sentient and engaging with humans was incorporated in comics, books, television, and movies. These…
The US-Philippine Economic Partnership
PAT WHELEN-UNSPLASH President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. has made his administration’s pivot to the United States a major plank of his presidency. He has offered…
World No Tobacco Day and smuggling
SHAUN MEINTJES-UNSPLASH May 31 is World No Tobacco Day. This year, the theme of the celebration is “We need food, not tobacco.” The 2023 global…
Crypto murder case from Seoul’s Beverly Hills spurs tighter digital-asset regulation
By Sangmi Cha and Hooyeon Kim JUST before midnight on March 29 an assailant dragged a screaming woman away from an apartment block in an…
Preventing cervical cancer
FREEPIK Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among women in the Philippines. The Department of Health (DoH) estimates that almost 7,300…
Do we know these? Beware of speed bumps!
BW FILE PHOTO Nikkei Asia, on March 14, acknowledged that as it stood, Philippine Senate Bill (SB) No. 1670 reflected House Bill (HB) No. 6608…
The role of AFAB in powering the blockchain culture in the Philippines
OMAR FLORES-UNSPLASH/BW FILE PHOTO When it comes to the blockchain landscape in our own country, there is a rising star that demands our attention —…
Vatican centralizes investigations on claims of Virgin Mary apparitions — but local Catholics have always had a say
TARIK HAIGA-UNSPLASH THE VATICAN recently announced its plan to set up an “observatory” at one of its several academic institutions, the Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis,…
How our educational system damages marriage and the family
RUT MIIT-UNSPLASH There is such a thing as staying too long in school. And it’s not because of intelligence (although a recent World Population Review…