Total external trade in goods for August 2012 reached $8.855 billion, representing a 4.3 percent decrease from $9.249 billion recorded during the same month in 2011. The decrease can be attributed to the 9.0 percent negative growth of exports from $…

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Value of Production Index (VaPI) of the manufacturing industry continued to grow as it posted a year-on-year increase of 3.0 percent in August 2012, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI…

Export earnings in August 2012 went down by 9.0 percent to $3.798 billion from $4.173 billion recorded in August 2011. The decline was brought about by the decrease in value of shipments in the following commodities: Articles of Apparel and Clothing…

The annual change in the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in NCR rose to 3.1 percent in September from 2.9 percent in August.

The year-on-year increase in the retail price index of selected construction materials in the National Capital Region (NCR) eased to 4.0 percent in September from 5.0 percent in August.

The total number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who worked abroad at anytime during the period April to September 2011 was estimated at 2.2 million. The estimate for the same period of 2010 was 2.0 million (Table 1 and Figure 1). The overseas…

The annual growth in the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) increased to 3.4 percent in August from 2.0 percent in July.

The monthly increment of the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items decelerated to 0.3 percent in September from 0.7 percent in August.

Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for the manufacturing industry continued its downtrend with a decrease of 0.8 percent in August 2012, compared with the year ago level, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Producer Price Survey.…