The employment rate registered for April 2009 was 92.5 percent. This estimate is not significantly different from last year's figure of 92.0 percent. The latest survey also revealed that the size of the labor force in April 2009 was approximately 37…

Export earnings in April 2009 fell by 35.2 percent to $2.803 billion from $4.328 billion registered in April 2008. Month-on-month it went down by 3.6 percent from $2.907 billion in March 2009. Summing up the merchandise exports from January to April…

On a monthly basis, the Retail Price Index of Selected Construction Materials in NCR continued to register a negative rate of -0.7 percent in May from -0.3 percent in April. This was due the declines in the indexes of carpentry materials at -1.0…

Producer Price Index increases The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for the manufacturing industry slightly increased by 0.7 percent in April 2009, compared with the year ago level, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Producer…

The national year-on-year headline inflation rate continued to decelerate at 3.3 percent in May from 4.8 percent in April as lower rates were observed in all the commodity groups. The May rate is the lowest since November 2007. Inflation a year ago…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR went up to 151.4 in May from 151.3 in April while that for AONCR, its level decreased to 163.2 from 163.8.

The year-on-year growth rate of the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) in the Philippines further dropped to -1.6 in February from -0.7 percent in January. This was effected by the continued reductions in the corresponding annual growth rates of…

On a monthly basis, the Retail Price Index of Selected Construction Materials in NCR went up at a slower rate of 0.1 percent in April from 0.6 percent in March. This was attributed mainly to the declines in the indexes of electrical materials and…

The month-on-month growth rate of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) picked up to 0.1 percent in March from -0.1 percent in February. This was attributed mainly to the increments in the prices of the heavily…

Value of Production declines at a slower pace in March 2009 Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry on an annual basis eased further to 12.0 percent in March 2009 from the previous month's decline of 18.8 percent, according…