Local businesses will have to implement more belt tightening measures, appeal to their employees to help save on unnecessary costs, and think of more ways to sustain productivity. Steven Yu, Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI)…
FOR VOLKSWAGEN Philippines, great things come in threes. After making available its first three groundbreaking new models last May — the Santana Multi-Point Injection manual transmission Trendline, the Lavida 230 Turbo-charged Stratified Injection Direct Shift Gear…
Amid reports that the market price of siling labuyo skyrocketed to as much as P1000 per kilo, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol urged consumers to counter rising prices by learning to plant red chili pepper in flower pots.…
CONSUMERS still reeling from the soaring prices of basic commodities need to tighten their belts even more after the Department of Agriculture (DA-7) found out in a price monitoring operation that the prices of several poultry products…
CEMVEDCO PREXY’S VIEWS The government should provide programs that will support the agriculture industry in the long term as a way to stabilize the prices of rice and by imposing a cap on rice prices. Erwin Goc-ong,…
The government should focus on bringing down the prices of rice in order to help the poor especially with the continued increase in the country’s inflation rate. Antonio Chiu, Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) president,…
LOS ANGELES — Bargain basement bud is on the menu in California, but you need to act fast to cash in on the cheap weed. Regulations being phased in six months after the state broadly legalized marijuana…
In response to rising inflation rate, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) raised its overnight reverse repurchase rate from 3.25 percent to 3.50 percent during its meeting last Wednesday. A similar increase was done only 6 weeks…
Question: Stock prices are falling. What should be my target buy price? Asked at “Ask a Friend, Ask Efren” free service through www.personalfinance.ph, Facebook, and SMS. Answer: As of the time of this writing, stock prices in…
Anecdotal evidence, including letters to the editor, tells a too-familiar story of scenes at drug store counters. After handing the sales person a doctor’s prescription and hearing the amount involved, the customer blanches at the total cited.…
MANOLITA Enerlan feels like being hit by multiple whammy. Enerlan, who runs a small eatery along Gorordo Avenue in Cebu City could barely cope with the rising prices of meat and vegetables. Now, she had to face…
DTI asks a supermarket to explain why it hiked prices when goods displayed were old stocks The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI-7) has warned malls and supermarkets not to take advantage of the rapid increase of…
