The Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) continued to climb as it recorded a higher annual growth of 3.6 percent in January 2017.

The year-on-year growth of the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level went up by 5.5 percent in December 2016.

The preliminary results of the 2014 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) showed that the country had a total of 1,160 agriculture, forestry and fishing establishments with total employment (TE) of 20 and over.

The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) in partnership with the Philippine Survey and Research Center starts the data collection of their survey entitled, “Survey on Perception and Awareness of Households on Market Competition” in February 2017…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for manufacturing climbed to 19.4 percent in December 2016 from the negative 2.7 percent during the same month of the previous year, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected…

As of December 1, 2016, the total rice stock inventory was 3.34 million metric tons (Figure 1). This was 2.98 percent lower than the 3.44 million metric tons level in December 2015 but 1.11 percent higher than last month’s inventory level of 3.30…

The total rice stock inventory as of January 1, 2017 was 2.77 million metric tons (Figure 1). This was 13.56 percent lower than the 3.20 million metric tons level in January 2016 and 17.19 percent lower than the previous month’s inventory level of 3…

The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing went down by 2.9 percent in December 2016. It went down 7.4 percent during the same period last year. This decrease was brought about by the declines posted by ten major sectors including…

The country’s annual headline inflation picked up by 2.7 percent at the beginning of the year 2017. Inflation in December 2016 was recorded at 2.6 percent and in the same month of the previous year, 1.3 percent. The indices of six of the eleven…

At the country level, the month-on-month growth of the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items decelerated to 0.1 percent in January 2017 from 0.4 percent in December 2016; non-food, 0.2 percent from 0.4 percent; and health and restaurant and…