Standing under an enormous olive tree, José Pedro Oliveira gently caresses its gnarled trunk. “It is more than one thousand years. Maybe older than Christ,” he says.  Located near Serpa, in the gently ...

THE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is poised to deliver two more rate cuts this year, bringing the key policy rate down to 5 percent, to mark the end of the easing cycle, according to economists.