Total approved foreign direct investments (FDI) for 2011 posted the highest level since 1996, reaching PhP 256.1 billion and surpassing the PhP 241.1 billion pledges recorded in 1997. In the fourth quarter of 2011, total FDI approved by the six…

Compared with January, the month-on-month growth of the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region went up to 0.6 percent in February from 0.1 percent.

Total Gross Revenue Index of industries slowed down to a growth of 7.5 percent in the third quarter of 2011, from a 14.8 percent growth in the previous year. Real Estate, posting its seventh consecutive double-digit growth, further accelerated to…

Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for the manufacturing sector increased at a slower rate of 1.1 percent in January 2012, according to the preliminary results of the monthly Producer Price Survey. This was brought about mainly by the double-digit…

On a monthly basis, the rate of change of the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items in the Philippines decreased by -0.1 percent in February from 0.2 percent in January.

The annual headline inflation rate in the Philippines further settled downward to 2.7 percent in February from 4.0 percent in January. This was primarily due to the slowdown in the annual growth rate of the heavily-weighted food and non-alcoholic…

On a monthly basis, the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) posted a zero growth for three consecutive months since November 2011 due to the offsetting monthly rates recorded in the indices.

The July 2011 LFS registered a labor force participation rate (LFPR) of 64.3 percent. The size of the labor force in July 2011 was approximately 39.9 million out of the estimated 62.1 million population 15 years old and over. The LFPR was highest in…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for total manufacturing continues to decelerate as it posted an annual decrease of 6.4 percent in December 2011, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI).…

Total external trade in goods for January to December 2011 reached $108.181 billion, representing a 1.6 percent increment from $106.430 billion registered during the same period a year earlier. Similarly, total imports grew by 9.5 percent to $60.139…