The local stock market surged past the 7,000 level as investors celebrated positive reports on breakthrough in COVID-19 vaccines. The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) leaped 349.63 points, or 5.23 percent ,to close at 7,035.48 as share prices rose across the board with the Holding Firms...
WORD ALIVE FR. BEL SAN LUIS, SVD Sometime ago, a news item in the US relates about how burglars broke into a New York firm. This wouldn’t have raised eyebrows at all since the incident took place in notorious New York. What made it amusing was that it happened to a company that manufactured...
The local stock market surged at the start of the US elections as investors look forward to an end in the guessing game over who will lead the world’s most influential economy in the next four years. The PSEi rose 128.49 points or 2.03 percent to close at 6,464.05 as share prices rose...
WORD ALIVE FR. BEL SAN LUIS, SVD Somebody quipped, “At his funeral, an atheist (non-believer in God) is all dressed up but with with nowhere to go.” Part of the feast of the Commemoration of the Saints and of Souls is to remind us Christians where to go after death. * * * For us believers and...
The local stock market managed to rise a few points after opening weaker as the listing of Converge ICT failed to inject excitement among investors. PSE file photo (Photo credit: https://www.pse.com.ph) The main index gained 7.13 points or 0.11 percent to close at 6,491.19 withe sectoral indices...
WORD ALIVE Fr. Bel R. San Luis, SVD The heart-rending case of the detained activist Reina Mae Nacino and her three-month-old baby River went viral over the deplorable way she was treated. The poor child after she was born on July 1 was separated from her mother and left to the care of the...
The local stock market ended flat yesterday as investors remain cautious amid lack of fresh news. The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) eked out a gain of 2.07 points, or 0.03 percent, to settle at 5,925.30 with only the Holding Firms and Services counters in the red. Volume improved to 2.79...
A labor-employer-government meeting agreed in principle to ask government to extend a loan facility to micro enterprises to pay for the mandatory 13th month pay of their employees which is estimated between P500 million to P1 billion. Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) President...
Pag-IBIG Fund assured the leaders of the country’s largest business organizations to work for the Board approval of its requires to postpone the agency’s January 2021 implementation of the increase of its mandatory monthly contributions. In a statement, business groups said Pag-IBIG Fund Chief...
WORLD ALIVE FR. BEL SAN LUIS, SVD A young couple had invited many guests to their daughter’s birthday dinner. At the table, the hostess turned to her six-year-old daughter and asked, “Would you like to say the prayer?” * * * “I don’t know what to say,” the girl...
WORD ALIVE FR. BEL SAN LUIS, SVD A priest who suffered an extremely strained relationship with his parishioners was finally appointed chaplain at the city prison. In the farewell party, the people came in great numbers to hear him. The priest chose as his text: "I go and prepare a place for you;...
As much as he wants to face Naoya Inoue in a title unification bout, WBO bantamweight champion John Riel Casimero knows that playing the waiting game also has its limits. That is why Casimero, coming off a dominating win over Duke Micah last Sunday in the United States, already has plans of moving...
