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By gaining only 4 percent since the start of this year, Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies may be proving to be overrated investments. Bitcoin’s price fell by more than 6 percent to its weakest level in six months on Friday, as there is growing uncertainty on the US economy that…

The scenes from Manila in September 2025 — thousands of citizens filling EDSA and Luneta, priests and students calling for accountability, and protesters chanting for the return of stolen public funds — should have been an alarm bell the country could not ignore. What began as revelations about anomalous flood-control…

The creation of the Task Force Philippines—a joint maritime defense coordination body involving the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines—represents a strategic and symbolic pivot toward collective deterrence against Chinese aggression in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). Within the volatile Indo-Pacific security landscape, this task force signals…

In recent years, Alphabet Inc. has signalled a major strategic pivot: its cloud computing business (via Google Cloud) and its AI-driven services are becoming core growth engines. This shift has profound implications—particularly for Generation Z (roughly born 1997-2012) in the Philippines and across Southeast Asia, who are coming of age…

While there are many investors who bought gold 12 months ago and are happily cashing in, having made a profit of around 60 percent, those who acquired OceanaGold Philippines (OGP) shares also one year ago have made a gain of at least 100 percent. Let us repeat that: Gold investors…

As the price of gold and silver reached records in the past weeks, the question that investors may ask themselves is: Gold or silver? On Thursday, gold’s price breached $4,300 per ounce, a new record. Meanwhile, silver closed at $54.20 per ounce the same day, also a new record. However,…