HEADS UP: How to Invest Wisely in the New Year (Dec. 30)

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news you need to know today, Dec. 30:

YEARENDER 2021

• Straight from the year’s newsmakers, here are the quotes that tell the story of 2021.

LIFE KIT

• The New Year is the best time to invest, if you set aside some cash from Christmas. Here’s how to do it right.

TRENDING NEWS

• Only Chavit Singson can make it rain money from a gold ‘gun’ for his constituents in Narvacan, Ilocos Sur. He hashtagged the post of the festivities #SpiritofGiving.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• The Philippines will buy two new warships from South Korea as part of an ongoing military modernization in the face of China’s aggression in the West Philippine Sea.
• The DENR has lifted a four-year-long ban on new open pit mines that was the passion project of the late environment secretary Gina Lopez.
• Apple just gave top engineers stock bonuses of up to $180,000 each, that’s P9 million to fend off poachers from Facebook’s Meta.
• The world remains at “high risk” for the Omicron variant, the WHO said after an 11% jump in global cases.
• Rapid or antigen tests may not be as accurate as RT-PCR in detecting the Omicron coronavirus variant, the U.S. said.
• People who catch the Omicron variant develop antibodies that protect them from Delta, one study showed.
• DC Comics has commissioned Kikomachine’s Manix Abrera to do a cover for “Batman: The Knight”.
• Rush hour rides on the MRT and LRT-2 are free today in commemoration of Rizal Day.