
Unemployment steady at 4.4% in December — PSA
The unemployment rate in December 2025 remained essentially unchanged from November’s 4.4 percent estimate, translating to 2.26 million individuals.
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The unemployment rate in December 2025 remained essentially unchanged from November’s 4.4 percent estimate, translating to 2.26 million individuals.
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Banking stocks led gainers, Ayala Corp. topped performers among index constituents, while the peso continued its upward climb, strengthening further to P58.58…
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Headline inflation increased by 0.2 percentage points from December’s 1.8 percent, even as economists say another rate cut is increasingly likely amid…
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Headline inflation rose to 2.0 percent at the start of 2026, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
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The House of Representatives’ “Young Guns” bloc has fully backed the proposal of House Majority Leader Ferdinand Alexander Sandro Marcos of Ilocos Norte for a…
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The Philippine Stock Exchange Index (PSEi) rebounded on Tuesday, climbing 1.67 percent to 6,401.96, as investor sentiment improved on expectations that the…
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Volatility in generation costs can change rapidly, but consumer incomes do not adjust as quickly.
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The Philippine Stock Exchange Index (PSEi) opened the week lower, closing Monday at 6,297.08, down 0.50 percent, as concerns over the economy’s momentum…
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The central bank’s reassessment came after the Philippine Statistics Authority reported that full-year GDP growth for 2025 settled at 4.4 percent,…
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DUMAGUETE CITY — The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is withholding judgment on a potential economic rebound in the second half of 2026 following the release…
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‘China is welcome to come in and buy oil.’
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‘The program has not delivered the results we hoped for.’
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‘After various consultative meetings with sugar industry stakeholders initiated by the DA and the SRA, the issue of artificial sweeteners has brought the sugar…
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‘The monthly uptick was mainly driven by higher fish and rice prices, alongside elevated global oil prices and LPG rate hikes.’
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‘The EPR Law is alive, operational and reshaping how we manage waste in this country.’
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Consumer groups’ fears that other generating companies would follow the lead of San Miguel Corp.’s unit, San Miguel Global Power (SMGP), in invoking the broad…
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‘One of the things we are thinking of doing — but this is not yet approved — is putting down on the drawing table the idea of allowing high-occupancy vehicles.’
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Trading was robust with net value turnover reaching P13.51 billion even as the peso, driven by broad US dollar softness, strengthened to P58.56 per dollar,…
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