Many companies in the country are planning to hire more workers in the coming quarter in anticipation of a heightened demand for their goods and services, results of a survey by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas showed.
A survey shows China’s manufacturing contracted this month, adding to signs a fragile recovery in the world’s No. 2 economy is slowing.
Citizens of Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) members generally don’t know much about or are uninterested in the regional grouping even as the 2015 threshold for building an integrated economic bloc approaches.
Only one out of four Filipino households has savings, indicating the vulnerability of the majority to risks emanating from emergency situations that require spending.
Corporate Philippines is riding on a “sky-high” confidence level this year, topping business sentiment elsewhere in Southeast Asia on the back of good local economic prospects, British bank Standard Chartered said.
Filipino consumers have improved their financial quotient (Fin-Q), or financial well-being, as more and more citizens now understand the value of budgeting, retirement planning and saving, a new Citibank research showed.
An estimated 80 percent of Net-savvy Filipino consumers would buy new products from familiar brands rather than switch to a new brand, according to a study recently released by market research firm Nielsen.
Malacañang blamed local government units for the two-notch drop in the country’s global ranking in the ease of doing business, but doubted this would deter investors.
Consumer spending on basic grocery items are likely to remain stable in the next six months in greater Metro Manila, but there may be budget cutbacks on discretionary items like alcoholic beverage, snack foods, new cell phone units, a recent consumer study by Citigroup suggested.
Filipino business leaders turned more upbeat in the second quarter and even ranked second highest globally in having the proportion of optimists among their peers, based on the latest quarterly survey of Grant Thornton International Business Report.
All of a sudden, the raucous critics of the Aquino (Part II) administration are rather quiet, even with the surprising dip in the “satisfaction rating” of our leader Benigno Simeon, aka BS.
Is Juan Tamad (term for the lazy Filipino) still around? A little more than half of the 2.8 million unemployed Filipinos in the country last year were not looking for work at the time the survey was made, according to the Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics (BLES).
