The recent surge in volatility has been bad news for developed markets. While the Philippine market has corrected because of the global macroeconomic headwinds enumerated below, there are also good news for the Philippines because of numerous factors.

The Bad News:
1) Standard and Poor’s historic downgrade of the US credit rating
2) Talks of a double-dip recession in the US has resurfaced
3) European debt crisis spreads to Italy and Spain
4) Possible downgrade of the credit rating of France i...

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