Quantity and value of domestic trade increases The total quantity of domestic trade transactions in the fourth quarter of 2006 increased by 5.0 percent, resulting to 4.40 million tons from 4.19 million tons reported during the same period of last…

The 2005 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry covered a total of 42,681 establishments engaged in real estate, renting and business activities. About 40,593 or 95.1 percent of the total figure were establishments with average total…

Export earnings in June 2007 slightly went up by 1.6 percent to $4.120 billion from $4.055 billion in June 2006. Similarly, receipts from merchandise exports during January to June increased by 6.6 percent to $24.540 billion from $23.013 billion…

The year-on-year headline inflation rate in the Philippines advanced to 2.6 percent in July from 2.3 percent in June as the inflation of fuel, light and water (FLW), food, beverages and tobacco (FBT) and services went up. Housing and repairs (H…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR and AONCR correspondingly went up to 131.1 and 135.3 in July from their respective June levels of 130.4 and 135.0.

The Producer Price Index (PPI) for the manufacturing industry reflected an increment of 1.4 percent in June 2007 compared to the year-ago figure.

Quantity and Value of Domestic Trade Falls The total quantity of domestic trade transactions in 2006 decreased by 4.5 percent, resulting to 20.47 million tons from 21.45 million tons reported in 2005. The commodities were traded mostly through…

Total external trade in goods for January to May 2007 reached $41.029 billion, representing a 4.7 percent increment from $39.171 billion during the same 5-month period in 2006. Similarly, total imports grew by 2.0 percent to $20.608 billion from $20…

Value of Production drops in May 2007 Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry slumped by 5.5 percent in May 2007 compared with the year-ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of…

The Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) recorded an increase of 1.1 percent in June from zero growth in May. This was mainly due to the 5.1 percent increment in the inflation of reinforcing steel…