
Slick with oil profit
When your increase is nearly twice that of your peers, the market is no longer merely reacting — it is extracting. Cha-ching!
DT · · 3 min read
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When your increase is nearly twice that of your peers, the market is no longer merely reacting — it is extracting. Cha-ching!
DT · · 3 min read

‘A jeepney driver’s additional daily expense increased by P1,300 due to fuel. That P5,000 only covers about three days of increased cost.’
DT · · 3 min read

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s week was marked by a series of engagements aimed at reinforcing economic stability amid uncertainties triggered by the Middle…
Raffy Ayeng · · 4 min read

Notable local and global canned sardine brand, Mega Prime Foods Inc., is seeking government intervention as the company said it can no longer cope with the…
Raffy Ayeng · · 4 min read

Drivers whose names were missing from the primary lists were referred back to their local tricycle operators and drivers’ associations, which are responsible…
ENM · · 2 min read

The National Tobacco Administration (NTA) is urging local government units to intensify efforts against cigarette smuggling, which costs the country billions…
Mico Virata · · 1 min read

The higher your income, the more exposed you actually are. You just do not feel it the same way.
Chinkee Tan · · 3 min read

The Covid-19 pandemic was supposed to have made us want to change our ways, but this war shows we haven’t, not really.
Dinah S. Ventura · · 2 min read

Officials from Zimbabwe visited tobacco farms in the Ilocos region from 7 to 15 March, signaling growing interest in the Philippines’ approach to tobacco…
Mico Virata · · 1 min read

Despite this, Laurel said retail prices of P60 to P65 per kilo seen in some markets is ‘bordering on profiteering.
Maria Bernadette Romero · · 1 min read

Each jeepney driver, for instance, assuming that they operate 300 days a year, shells out P135,000 in fuel taxes.
DT · · 3 min read
Exporters are urging the government to reduce the value-added tax on fuel and electricity as rising global oil prices linked to tensions in the Middle East…
Mico Virata · · 2 min read

MUMBAI, India (AFP) — Nepal has started selling half-filled cooking gas cylinders to curb hoarding and panic buying, officials said Friday, following import…
Agence France-Presse · · 1 min read

The group supports reviewing excessive penalties imposed under the Joint Administrative Order governing traffic violations.
Jing Villamente · · 1 min read

The ongoing tension in the Middle East is fueling fear and volatility in the local fuel market. The Philippines, which imports nearly all of its diesel and…
Maria Bernadette Romero · · 3 min read
‘The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has resulted in the disruption of liquefied natural gas shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.’
Agence France-Presse · · 1 min read

Military operations in the West Philippine Sea will continue despite record fuel price hikes driven by conflict in the Middle East, Armed Forces of the…
Lisa Marie Apacible · · 1 min read

The Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is mobilizing all resources to protect customers from potential electricity price spikes amid escalating tensions in the…
Maria Bernadette Romero · · 1 min read
