Total external trade in goods for January to December 2008 reached $105.661 billion, a 0.3 percent decline from $105.979 billion registered in 2007. This was due to the slower 2.0 percent growth of the total imports to $56.636 billion from $55.514…

Value of Production on the downtrend Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry declined by 9.6 percent in December 2008, after registering positive growths in the last eight months since April 2008, according to the…

On a monthly basis, the Retail Price Index of Selected Construction Materials in NCR slightly went up to 0.1 percent in January from -0.6 percent in December. A higher growth was noted in carpentry materials index at 0.2 percent in January from 0.1…

The monthly growth rate of the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) recorded a zero growth in January from -0.4 percent in December as prices of glass and glass products, metal pipes, PVC pipes,…

The month-on-month growth rate of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) continued to drop at -0.7 percent in December from -1.4 percent in November as prices of mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials…

The annual growth rate of the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level continued to move at a slower pace of 4.4 percent in November from 9.1 percent in October. Negative annual growth rates in price adjustments were…

Export earnings in December 2008 dropped by 40.4 percent to $2.672 billion from $4.482 billion in December 2007. The same was true with the previous month’s level, where a 23.9 percent decrease was noted from $3.513 billion.…

Producer Price Index maintains single-digit growth The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for the manufacturing industry grew at a slower rate of 7.5 percent in December 2008, compared with the year ago level, according to the preliminary results…

In 2006, the average annual family income of Filipino families (P173 thousand) was 16.8 percent higher than the 2003 estimated average of P148 thousand. Correspondingly, the average annual family expenditure of families increased from P124 thousand…

The continued negative annual growth recorded in the fuel, light and water (FLW) index along with deceleration in the annual price increments of all the other commodity groups further pushed down the country’s year-on-year headline inflation rate to…