Reversal of Fortunes in Debt Market
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:53:12 -0800

By natasha brereton-FUKUI From Brazil to Indonesia to the Philippines , emerging-market countries are pouring into the bond market, taking advantage of soaring investor demand to sell debt at record-low interest rates. Governments and government-linked ...

Philippines - Market factors to watch - Jan 4
Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:00:53 -0800

DIARIES & DATA: IPO diary & data Asia earnings diary US earnings diary European diary Wall Street Week Ahead Eurostocks Week Ahead World forecasts top news: For top Asian company news, double click on: US company news European company news Forex news ...

Milan Melindo Turning Heads, Gains Top Rank Interest
Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:28:24 -0800

He is ranked in the top 10 amongst flyweight boxers in the world by all of the legitimate boxing sanctioning bodies. ALA fighters that have been promoted by Top Rank in recent years include Z Gorres and Mark Melligen, and other Filipino boxers like ...

P111-million fund to be launched to support brilliant IT ideas
Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:56:52 -0800

By Patricia Esteves (The Philippine Star) Updated January 09, 2012 12:00 AM 0 MANILA, Philippines - Filipino top tech entrepreneur Myla Villanueva will attest that she is the best example that you can start your own company and be successful. ...

SGGP lists top ten most important economic events of 2011 in Vietnam
Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:56:37 -0800

65 stock companies suffered losses and 71 others suffered accumulated losses. Market capitalization accounted for only 20 percent of the gross domestic product. The world gold price increased by US$40 to top $1886 per ounce on August 22, which led the ...

Heavy inflow of foreign investments seen
Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:00:22 -0800

With the requirement of the Philippine Stock Exchange for listed companies to maintain a minimum of 10 -percent public float, she said this would spur some follow-on offering. But I think that beyond that, with the domestic exchange doing relatively ...

President allays call center fears
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:47:13 -0800

At present, the Philippines is the world's top destination of BPO centers of many US and European companies due to a large English-speaking population. The President, meantime, pledged to further improve the country's investment climate, ...

FICO Powers Philippines ' Bank of Commerce Consumer Lending Business
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:24:10 -0800

Most of the world's top banks, as well as leading insurers, retailers, pharmaceutical companies and government agencies, rely on FICO solutions to accelerate growth, control risk, boost profits and meet regulatory and competitive demands. ...

Cebu City's South American mission
Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:02:41 -0800

CNC Presidet Carlos Jorquiera vowed to assist businesses from the Philippines , especially from Cebu, in order to increase trade and business value between the two countries. Before heading back home, the Cebu delegation dropped by Rio de Janeiro in ...

Southeast Asia Today: Top Stories From the Region
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:53:33 -0800

(Source: The Philippine Star) US sanctions energy companies in China, UAE, Singapore over Iran oil deals: The US government on Thursday sanctioned energy trading firms Zhuhai Zhenrong of China, Kuo Oil of Singapore and FAL Oil of UAE for doing business ...

South America Boom Backfiring With Complacency From Commodities
Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:40:45 -0800

From the new hub, he invests in technology companies in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and other southeast Asia countries. Santiago looks very new and beautiful with tall glass buildings, said Kohavi, who was vice president of DSP Communications ...

IT company lists top security stories of 2011
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:53:57 -0800

In December last year, online hackers attacked private intelligence analysis firm Strategic Forecasting Inc. The company's website, known as Stratfor, was offline for several days following the attack. Below are the top security stories of 2011 with ...

'US is not the only BPO market'
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:18:33 -0800

By Estrella Torres, Business Mirror MANILA, Philippines - Filipino business-process outsourcing (BPO) workers facing displacement in case the US Congress passes a bill that keeps American companies from farming out noncore operations overseas, ...

SSg A Rolls Out Small-Cap Emerging Asia ETF
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:14:53 -0800

Ten years ago this was a small part of the world economy, said Quigg, noting that at that time emerging market countries made up 5 percent of the world's total stock market value, whereas now that number is 13 percent. Another statistic that bodes ...

Top 10 Environment Stories 2011
Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:46:27 -0800

However a tropical cyclone striking the Philippines brought the largest death toll of any storm this year: over 1000 people. Failed rains in the Horn of Africa threatened 13 million people with food scarcity and pushed unstable Somalia into famine, ...

Youth unemployment crisis in Sri Lanka
Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:48:35 -0800

In Indonesia the youth unemployment rate is close to 25 %, in Sri Lanka over 19 % and similarly in the Philippines almost 19 %. As much as youth unemployment rates in Sri Lanka are imperceptibly decreasing as recorded in the Labour Force Surveys of the ...

All That Market Volatility for This?
Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:07:15 -0800

But even those lackluster results were enough to put the US near the top of the global stock benchmarks, joining the likes of Venezuela and the Philippines as the among the few gainers in a year dominated by caution and fear. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

Philippines to see mobility, cloud go into overdrive
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:05:27 -0800

PSIA's Legaspi said companies should turn to cloud services to reduce their administrative headaches and costs, as well as gain efficiencies and improved collaboration. "New Philippine software outsourcing firms should opt to focus on Groovy, ...

12 Sarangani students to undergo training in top companies in Japan
Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:01:16 -0800

Twelve students from Sarangani province have been chosen to undergo paid professional training in some of the top industrial companies in Japan. In a news release, the Sarangani Information Office said all of them are scholars at the Philippine -Nippon ...

Top 10 Asia ETFs -- Excluding China and India
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:48:31 -0800

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