I was visiting various banks yesterday scouting for a good housing loan package when I chanced upon an announcement at the Development Bank of the … Read More
In this day and age, can you really judge a person’s financial capability based merely on appearance?
Some staff of Banco de Oro (BDO), one of the country’s leading banks, seem to think they can.
Several PMT members narrated in the forum’s Discriminating BDO bank manager thread how they were treated differently or, worse, badly just because they visited a BDO branch with an “unprofessional” attire or look.
Here it is! The July 2008 update of the list of Top Philippine Blogs which we have been tracking for four months now.
The rankings are primarily based on Alexa.com‘s 3-month traffic rank.
The good news is that the additional 0.15% tax on all incoming overseas remittances was supposed to start May 30, 2008 but, until now, this has not been implemented.
The bad news is that the collection of this tax will start anytime soon.
Last week when I picked up my Google Adsense earnings from Western Union, they told me that the additional Documentary Stamp Tax (DST) tax on remittances will start “sometime this June.”
And the spate of bad news around the world continues.
Premium coffee retailer Starbucks Corp. announced that in the next year, it will close around 600 company-operated stores in the United States. The move was a response to the company’s weakening profitability, hurt partly by the struggling economy in the US.
And the spate of bad news around the world continues.
Premium coffee retailer Starbucks Corp. announced that in the next year, it will close around 600 company-operated stores in the United States. The move was a response to the company’s weakening profitability, hurt partly by the struggling economy in the US.
And the spate of bad news around the world continues.
Premium coffee retailer Starbucks Corp. announced that in the next year, it will close around 600 company-operated stores in the United States. The move was a response to the company’s weakening profitability, hurt partly by the struggling economy in the US.
And the spate of bad news around the world continues.
Premium coffee retailer Starbucks Corp. announced that in the next year, it will close around 600 company-operated stores in the United States. The move was a response to the company’s weakening profitability, hurt partly by the struggling economy in the US.
And the spate of bad news around the world continues.
Premium coffee retailer Starbucks Corp. announced that in the next year, it will close around 600 company-operated stores in the United States. The move was a response to the company’s weakening profitability, hurt partly by the struggling economy in the US.
The country is still reeling from the effects of a 14-year high inflation rate of 11.4% but the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) warned that prices may still rise and inflation might peak during the 3rd quarter of 2008.
The good thing, though, is that according to the BSP, it may come down starting the last quarter of the year and may continue until 2009.
Here’s one sad, bad news for all of us: the Philippines’ inflation rate in June 2008 jumped to 11.4% — the highest ever recorded in the last 14 years.
The figure was beyond the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines)’s forecast range of 10.4% to 11.2%.
It was the fastest pace in 14 years since May 1994 when inflation was recorded at 11.5%.
And now, the end is really here.
Back in January, Google announced that its Adsense Referrals program will be retired in all regions except North America, Latin America, and Japan. Two weeks later, it backtracked and offered the program again although with new conditions.
