Category: Stock Analysis
Valuing sustainability without financializing: Evidence of best practice
OUR TEAM-FREEPIK How can economic actors, who care about increasing shareholder value, truly engage in sustainable practices without oversimplifying it into numbers? In this article,…
Interrupting life, again
PHILIPPINE STAR/ MIGUEL DE GUZMAN With the National Capital Region experiencing another surge in COVID-19 cases, probably due to the more contagious Delta variant, it…
Hidilyn answered the question… emphatically
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/HIDILYNWEIGHTLIFTER With a new Olympic record lift, three-time Olympian Hidilyn Diaz won the country’s first gold medal since its Olympics debut in 1924 at the…
The need to explain
GOONERUA-FREEPIK FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, especially of publicly listed companies, are required to explain certain entries that may be vague or out of the ordinary. Such items…
Understanding the four industrial revolutions
PIKISUPERSTAR-FREEPIK Part 2 From what we have written so far, it is clear that the first Industrial Revolution (IR 1.0) would not have occurred were…
Duterte’s SONA Finale
President Rodrigo Duterte has delivered his last State of the Nation Address (SONA). Lasting for almost three hours, the national chief executive presented his administration’s…
Body-worn cameras in the execution of warrants
Almost four years after the death of Kian delos Santos, a 17-year-old student who allegedly fought back yet was shown in a CCTV footage to…
How Xi’s Four Pillars of Regulation will reshape China’s Big Tech
WIKIPEDIA.ORG FROM THE US to the European Union, governments are clearly uneasy with the pervasive power of Big Tech: The influence of their social media…
Hidilyn wins page one
Screenshots via Issuu, PressReader, and Magzter Newspaper editors can be an edgy lot. Especially when something big happens when they’ve already put their papers “to…
Where to, workforce?
VECTOR JUICE-FREEPIK If we were still of that age, when droves of students write up their CVs and send out resumes, we would be very…
The world’s cascade of disasters is not a coincidence
MACROVECTOR-FREEPIK “IT NEVER RAINS, but what it pours,” sang Judy Garland to Mickey Rooney in 1938, memorably describing what happens “if Lady Luck should happen…
SONA on business over the last five years
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (PRRD) will deliver his sixth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA) 2021 hours after I submit this paper to…
Where is the back-to-school roadmap?
ROUGHLY TWO MONTHS before the filing of candidacies for the 2022 polls start, we’ve seen presidential and vice-presidential tandems and senatorial lineups fielded. Politicians have…
Back on the grey list
BW FILE PHOTO I am pleased to share with readers a June 29 note to subscribers of GlobalSource Partners (globalsourcepartners.com), a New York-based network of…
Implementing CREATE
JCOMP-FREEPIK The Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) Law is now ready to be implemented. On June 21, Department of Trade and Industry…
The Department of Finance: Looking beyond 2022
“At the start of this pandemic, I warned that the battle could be long. Considering this, it was important to maintain fiscal responsibility. We must…
More cracks at DepEd revealed
WIKIPEDIA.ORG I wrote two columns in the last two months about the state of Philippine education under the leadership of Education Secretary Leonor Briones. It…
The Delta factor
FREEPIK Delta is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. In general, it stands for change. In chemistry, delta is the change in energy levels….
Disconnect
PCH.VECTOR-FREEPIK A survey by the polling firm Social Weather Stations (SWS), the results of which were released on July 12, found that hunger incidence among…
A major ivermectin study has been withdrawn, so what now for the controversial drug?
Ivermectin, an existing drug against parasites including head lice, has had a checkered history when it comes to treating COVID-19. The bulk of studies so…