The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for the manufacturing industry dropped by 5.4 percent in May 2010, compared with the year ago level, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Producer Price Survey. Furniture and fixtures recorded…

The month-on-month growth rate of the retail price index of selected construction materials in NCR decelerated to 0.4 percent in May from 0.6 percent in April due to the -0.4 percent price decline posted in the index of miscellaneous construction…

Quantity and value of domestic trade increases The total quantity of domestic trade transactions in the first quarter of 2010 increased by 26.3 percent, resulting to 4.24 million tons from 3.36 million tons reported during the same period of last…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for total manufacturing recorded a year-on-year growth of 22.8 percent in April 2010, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI). This was due to the…

Total external trade in goods for January to April 2010 reached $32.100 billion, a 37.3 percent increment from $23.386 billion registered during the same period in 2009. Total imports posted a 35.7 percent annual increase to $17.175 billion from $12…

Twenty-eight percent or 17.3 million Filipino adults age 15 years and older are current tobacco smokers, according to the results of the 2009 Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS). Almost half (48 percent or 14.6 million) of adult males and 9 percent (…

The annual movement of the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) in the Philippines accelerated to 9.5 percent in March from 8.8 percent in February.

The number of unemployed persons in April 2010 was estimated at 3.1 million compared to last year's estimate of 2.8 million. This placed the current unemployment rate at 8.0 percent which is not significantly different from last year's estimate of 7…

On a monthly basis, the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) went up to 0.3 percent in April from -0.1 percent in March. Higher monthly price increases were registered in the heavily weighted food index at 0.3…

Export earnings in April 2010 amounted to $3.573 billion, registering a double-digit growth of 27.4 percent from it's year ago level of $2.804 billion. Compare to previous month level it went down by 14.5 percent from $4.181 billion in March 2010.…