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Suspension of oil excise tax hike to push through: Diokno

By Joann Villanueva/PNA MANILA -- Budget and Management Secretary Benjamin Diokno on Wednesday said the implementation of an additional PHP2 per liter increase in oil excise taxes scheduled for 2019 is definitely suspended. In...

Banana exporters set plans to secure markets, find new ones

By PR (PNA) MANILA -- The banana industry has taken the initiative to secure its share in traditional overseas markets and explore new ones for the country’s top fruit export. Key exporters are set...

Local shares recover, Peso stays still

By Joann Villanueva (PNA) MANILA -- The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) on Wednesday ended its three-day slide, lifted by encouraging earnings in the local bourse, while the peso was almost unchanged against the...

DICT did not favor Mislatel: Rio

By Aerol John Pateña/PNA MANILA -- The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) stressed that it did not give undue favor to Mislatel Consortium in its decision to provisionally award it the...

Rise in TDF rates sustained

By Joann Villanueva/PNA MANILA -- The rates of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) Term Deposit Facility (TDF) continued to rise even while apprehensions generated by recent developments in the economic front, particularly overseas,...

NFA-Eastern Visayas sets ultimatum for rice SRP compliance

By Sarwell Meniano (PNA) TACLOBAN CITY -- Rice traders in Eastern Visayas are given until next week to fully comply with the suggested retail prices (SRP) for the staple, an official of the National...
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