PUBLICLY LISTED Agrinurture Inc. (ANI) is poised to snag a $10-million investment from a “big foreign fund” before proceeding with a follow-on share offering in the fourth quarter of this year.

STATE-RUN PHILIPPINE National Oil Co. has thumbed down the unsolicited proposal of a consortium led by investors from Italy and Abu Dhabi for the construction of the $1.2-billion Batangas-Manila (BatMan 1) natural gas pipeline.

THE GOVERNMENT’S debt stock rose to P4.582 trillion in June, increasing by P28 billion, or 0.6 percent, from May due to a weakened peso and net issuance of government debt paper, the Bureau of the Treasury said Thursday.