According to the speculation of one netizen on Facebook, Investors are starting to

pull out stocks from companies in the Philippines because of the result of the recent
election done last May 9, 2022. (Unreliable Topic from Human Source) –Information are
gathered from Internet Sources

As mentioned by Kriz John Rosales in his article “Presidential elections may spell fat
stock returns” (2022), The eve of the Philippine presidential election could be a good time to
put money into the country's stocks. In four of the last five presidential elections, the
Philippine Stock Exchange Index delivered world-beating returns in the six months following
the election. As believed by Gerald Abad, chief investment officer at AB Capital &
Investments, the upward trend could continue this year, especially if Monday's election is
free of fraud and the new president names a credible economic team that boosts investor
confidence; adding stocks historically also gain in the year after the elections. Ferdinand
"Bongbong" R. Marcos Jr. leads Maria Leonor "Leni" G in most polls. Many analysts believe
Leni Robredo is the only other likely candidate to emerge victorious. Investors expect short-
term headwinds. A polarized political environment is distracting the country's new leaders
as they grapple with rising inflation, rising interest rates and the aftermath of the war in
Ukraine. Much of the correction stems from higher inflation, a weaker peso and the threat of
higher interest rates, but the elections are fueling market weakness, Abad added. The next
president will get a tougher economy and tighter financial situation than the one Duterte
inherited.

Rosales, K. J. (2022). Presidential elections may spell fat stock returns. Retrieved from
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An article from a unknown author through Business World Online (2022) states that
the Philippines' benchmark stock index fell amid a global selloff as investors waited for
economic policies following Ferdinand Marcos Jr's landslide presidential election victory.
Analysts say stocks are unlikely to recover until Marcos puts in place plans to boost growth,
keep inflation in check and tackle the country's mounting debt. “Many investors are
probably on the sidelines,” said Robert Ramos, head of Rizal Commercial Banking’s Trust
and Investments Group. “They will be waiting for the new administration to discuss
economic plans and how to get out of the pandemic’s fallout.”
 Anonymous (2022). Philippine stocks fall as traders weigh Marcos win, global rout.
Retrieved from https://www.bworldonline.com/corporate/2022/05/10/447406/philippine-
stocks-fall-as-traders-weigh-marcos-win-global-rout/

Origin of Covid-19 Outbreak (Reliable topic from Public Library Source and Internet Source)

In a journal of Medical Virology, written by Hongzhou, found that there have been a
total of 41 confirmed instances of pneumonia with an unknown cause in Wuhan, Hubei
Province, China, since December 2019. At a national press conference, Dr Jianguo Xu, an
academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, who led a scientific team announced
that a new-type coronavirus, tentatively named by World Health Organization as the 2019-
new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), had caused this outbreak.

According to Umakanthan, Sahu and Ranade (2020), Coronavirus (CoV) is derived

from the word ‘corona’ meaning ‘crown’ in Latin. It causes a range of human respiratory
tract infections varying from mild cold to severe respiratory distress syndrome. The present
novel CoV disease also called as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV-2 and
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an emerging global health threat. The COVID-19
epidemic started from Wuhan city of China towards the end of December 2019 and since
then spread rapidly to Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Iran in the initial
months. This was followed by wide viral dissemination around the world including Spain,
Italy, USA, UAE and the UK. The WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic.