The Philippines’ annual headline inflation rate inched up to 2.9 percent in December from 2.8 percent in November. This was effected by higher annual rates in the food and non-alcoholic beverages and alcoholic beverages and tobacco indices.…

Compared to November 2012, the seasonally adjusted consumer price index (CPI) for all items went up 0.2 percent in December from 0.1 percent.

Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for the manufacturing industry continued to decrease by 2.8 percent in November 2012, compared with the year ago level, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Producer Price Survey.

At the national level, the month-on-month change in the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items in June was registered at its previous month’s rate of 0.3 percent; alcoholic beverages and tobacco, 0.8 percent; and clothing and footwear, 0.2 percent.…

A total count of 27,323 new construction projects from approved building permits in the country were reported for the third quarter of 2012. This number grew 8.2 percent compared to 25,255 construction projects over the same quarter in 2011.

Quantity and Value of domestic trade increases The total quantity of domestic trade transactions in the third quarter of 2012 increased by 32.9 percent, resulting to 5.71 million tons from 4.30 million tons reported during the same period of last…

Total external trade in goods for October 2012 reached $9.648 billion, representing a 5.1 percent increase from $9.180 billion recorded during the same month in 2011. The increase can be attributed to the 6.1 percent positive growth of exports to $4…

The annual increase in the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level further decelerated to 1.2 percent in October from 2.2 percent in September.

Households continue to expend more on health as revealed in the latest updates on the Philippine National Health Accounts (PNHA) covering the period 2007-2010.

The October 2012 Labor Force Survey (LFS) results recorded an estimate of 37.7 million employed persons, which gives an employment rate of 93.2 percent. Last year's employment rate was estimated at 93.6 percent. Across regions, Cagayan Valley…