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                    [Title] => SEC retains 35% threshold on mandatory tender offers
                    [Summary] => The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) retained  the 35-percent threshold on mandatory tender offers involving listed companies after it failed to draw support from capital market players on its proposal  to lower the trigger point to 15 percent.


"We decided to retain the 35 percent threshold for  the good of the capital market, said Jose P. Aquino, head of the SEC’s Markets Regulation Department.


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                    [Summary] => Three prominent business organizations have joined the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) in its call for the retention of the current 35-percent threshold on tender offers involving listed corporations, saying a lower trigger point will discourage foreign investors as it will jack up stock market transaction costs and expose investors to unnecessary risks.


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                    [Title] => RP to remain in CalPERS invesment list
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CalPERS decision was based on the report from its consultant, Wilshire Associates which retained its rating on the Philippines, allowing the fund to retain the country in its list of "permissible emerging equity markets." 


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Hindi man tahasang tinukoy ni Sen. Magsaysay, ang sinasabi niyang walang "palabra de honor" na mga kasama sa administration bloc ay sina Senate Majority Leader Loren Legarda, Sen. Noli de Castro at Sen. Manuel Villar na kumontra sa kanyang panukala na ibaba sa P500,000 ang threshold.


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