The month-on-month growth rate of the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items at the national level improved to 0.1 percent in October from 0.6 percent in September.

Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing further decreased to 6.4 percent in September 2013, compared with the year ago level, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Producer Price Survey.

For the purposes of this report, industries are categorized into two, namely Energy-producing industries and Energy-consuming industries. Energy-producing industries are those industries involved in the production of different energy sources such…

Among industries, Trade posted the fastest growth at 12.6 percent from 12.9 percent. It was closely followed by Finance which exhibited accelerated growth of 12.0 percent from 9.5 percent. Real Estate and Private Services likewise, recorded a double…

Total external trade in goods for August 2013 reached $10.123 billion, representing a 12.5 percent improvement from $8.994 billion recorded during the same month in 2012. This was due to the 6.9 percent and 20.2 percent growth on total imports and…

In 2012, Filipino families had an annual income of 235 thousand pesos, on average. In comparison, their expenditure for the same year was 193 thousand pesos, on average. These figures translate to an average annual savings of 42 thousand pesos per…

The year-on-year growth of the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level decelerated to 1.4 percent in August from 3.6 percent in July.

The annual growth in the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) continued to improve at 1.6 percent in September from 2.0 percent in August.

The annual growth in the construction materials retail price index (CMRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) picked-up 1.9 percent in September from 1.8 percent in August.

Export earnings in August 2013 amounted to $4.581 billion, a 20.2 percent growth from $3,810 billion recorded in August of 2012. The positive growth was mainly brought by the increase of seven major commodities out of the top ten commodities for…