Overseas Filipinos are confronting threats to their survival as migrants which a pandemic caused. They continue to fight on, for the sake of their loved ones and of their pandemic-stricken homeland.

Full story here: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2020/03/26/pandemic-lockdowns-test-global-endurance-of-overseas-filipinos-spirit/

The longer the coronavirus outbreak lasts curtailing Chinese production, the closer global manufacturing will look at finding ways —permanent ways—to not put all of its eggs in one Chinese basket.

Most of our TV networks are hysterical about the reporting of the disease. It is true what they say, in the gaps and interstices of formal discourses can be found the other texts about order and disorder.

What is happening is that it is not only the coronavirus that is going viral but the news—informed and misinformed—about it.

Monday Market Talk, a BusinessMirror podcast on the Philippine stock market, is based on the Stock Market Outlook story that comes out in the print edition and online version every Monday under the Companies section of the BusinessMirror.

LOCAL economists and analysts are not optimistic about the country’s economic outlook given the extent of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Economists see the virus eating away whatever gains the economy has had in the past decade. Some are even talking about the dreaded “R” word—recession, or what the Philippines and the rest of the world went through during the global economic crisis of 2009.

Having previously talked about it for months, the economic chaos cycle is beginning to bite. Well, you might say, there would not be any economic crisis if not for the “black swan” event of the COVID-19.

EMILIA was my grandmother on the mother’s side. When she was still alive, she would share with us what she could read in nature—in the plants and animals around us. She would look at the sky and clouds, and would tell us if the next day would be one of rains or storm.

Monday Market Talk, a BusinessMirror podcast on the Philippine stock market, is based on the Stock Market Outlook story that comes out in the print edition and online version every Monday under the Companies section of the BusinessMirror.