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Jollibee Food Corp (PSE: JFC) recently announced that it incurred a net loss of P2.07 billion for the first quarter of this year, sending its share price skidding by as much as 18.2 percent last week.It was the first time in the ...

Stock prices are reflections of market emotions as determined by demand and supply.When there is more demand than supply for a stock, share price tends to increase just as they tend to fall when there are more sellers than buyers.The factors influencing ...

The recent fall of the stock market amid the spread of the coronavirus pandemic has made investing in dividend stocks attractive. Dividend stocks are companies that pay out a portion of their earnings regularly to their shareholders. They are usually mature and stable ...

After trading was suspended for two days, the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSEi) resumed activities today. At the start of trading, the PSEi recorded a 12.4-percent tumble, once again triggering a circuit breaker or a halt of activities. The decline reached 18 percent to ...

Behavioral finance tells us that stock market declines tend to be quicker and steeper than gains because the fear of loss is twice higher than the desire to profit.The PSE index has so far lost more than 1,100 points or 14.5 percent ...

Every investor has a different investment objective. Some people like to invest in blue chip stocks for stability. Some like to buy riskier stocks for higher returns. Some just want to have fun trading in and out of the market for quick ...

There is a saying that you don’t judge a stock by its market price.Many first-time investors make the mistake of evaluating a stock whether it is cheap or expensive by simply looking at the share price.For example, a stock may be perceived ...

The year 2019 has been a challenging one for the Philippine stock market as the PSE Index see-sawed between 7,500 and 8,300 throughout the year. While interest rates and inflation fell to historic lows, rising uncertainties over the global trade war between the ...

There is a contrarian saying that it is good to buy when everyone wants to sell and sell when everyone wants to buy.Market psychology dictates that investors tend to overpay stocks when everyone is positive about the future of the company and ...

There is a saying that you make most of your money in a bear market, but you just don’t realize it at the time.But in a stock market that has been falling for four months now, it is difficult to tell when ...

As inflation rate slows down to below one percent last month, interest rates continue to fall this year.The 10-year Philippine bond yield, for example, has fallen to 4.63 percent last week from 7.35 percent in the same period last year. Lower interest ...

The Ayala group of companies recently acquired majority control of publicly listed company Phinma Energy for its power-related projects via backdoor listing.A backdoor listing, which is also called a reverse takeover, happens when a private company acquires majority control of a publicly ...

Despite the gloomy performance of the PSE Index this year, which gained only 4.4 percent so far, there are few stocks in the market that were still able to register at least 50 percent return.Many of these stocks do not have sustainable ...

It has been a volatile ride so far for the Philippine stock market.Only a few weeks ago, the PSE Index broke out of its long-term resistance at 8,150, which sent the market to reach a 52-week high at 8,419.Just as everyone thought ...

Property investor Kepwealth Property Philippines (PSE:KPPI), Inc is the first company to go public this year after it recently obtained approvals from regulators to raise P384 million in an initial public offering (IPO). KPPI will sell 67 million new shares to the public ...

Cebu Pacific's stock prices are back to a stable 87.00 following a major price drop on Tuesday, July 9. An alleged “fat finger,” or typo error, by a local broker caused Cebu Air's share price to plunge as much as 38 percent during ...

If you want to make big money in the stock market, you need to be on the right side of every move.Sometimes, by simply going with the market flow, you can increase your chances of making profitable investments.So before you start investing ...

Legendary investor Warren Buffett used to say the time to get interested in stocks is when no one else is.Since the start of the year, bank stocks have been struggling to survive with the financial sector index falling by 3.4 percent at ...

There were only five companies that went public in the last two years at the Philippine Stock Exchange. Most of them did not do well due to the volatile market environment.In fact, three of the last five initial public offering (IPO) stocks ...

It has been a roller coaster ride for the Philippine stock market so far. The PSE Index started the year on a strong note, gaining as much as 700 points to reach a year-high record of 8,213 only to lose it all towards ...