SHARES inched higher on Tuesday to end a five-day decline on bargain hunting ahead of the monetary policy meetings of the US Federal Reserve and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), where markets expect further tightening.The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) edged up by

PHILIPPINE STAR/ MIGUEL DE GUZMANTHE HOUSE of Representatives on Tuesday approved on third and final reading a bill that seeks to postpone village and youth elections to next year. Voting 264-6, with 3 abstentions, the chamber approved House Bill 4673, which calls for the elections to

DOJ.GOV.PHSEVERAL senators on Tuesday backed a higher budget for the Department of Justice (DoJ) and its attached agencies, citing the need for more government prosecutors and better facilities. “I am in support of a higher budget for the Department of Justice since the agency serves an

PHOTO COURTESY OF DOLETHE COMMISSION on Appointments (CA) on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of the county’s Labor secretary. “With the country’s current employment rate at 94.8% in July 2022, I trust that Secretary Bienvenido E. Laguesma as Labor secretary endeavors to further improve this number so

SEVERAL lawmakers on Tuesday filed a resolution asking the Commission on Human Rights to condemn the state’s terrorist-financing charges against members of a religious group. House Resolution 393 called on the agency to issue a condemnation against the Department of Justice’s (DoJ) indictment of nuns and

FedEx (NYSE:FDX) dropped to a two-year low last week after missing estimates for the preliminary Q1 results. The giant air freight and logistics company employs over 440k people and has business operations all over the world. For many years during Alan Greenspan being the head of

PHILIPPINE STAR/ EDD GUMBANTHE government’s water security plans for 2030 are expected to require investment of P1 trillion, too large for the Treasury to undertake by itself, Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno said, inviting the participation of the private sector as well as local governments

Cargo and other vehicles are pictured on a roll-on, roll-off ferry as it leaves Dalahican port in Lucena City, March 10, 2016. — REUTERS/ ERIK DE CASTROLOCAL government units (LGUs) are now on the hook for the construction of 36 new ports and docks in

THE Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) said it is hoping to make its economic zone offering more attractive to locators by offering seamless trade facilitation and upgraded logistics.Tereso O. Panga, PEZA officer-in-charge and deputy director general for policy and planning, said he met with Customs

THE House Committee on Energy heard proposals to incentivize distribution utilities (DUs) and electric cooperatives (ECs) to invest in renewable energy (RE) as a means of bringing down electricity prices.  “There are several distribution utilities and cooperatives whose power service agreements are expiring this year