Total external trade in goods for January to March 2007 reached $24.123 billion, representing a 9.6 percent increment from $22.019 billion during the same 3-month period in 2006. Similarly, total imports grew by 7.1 percent to $11.971 billion from $…

The average annual inflation rate of the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) for 2006 was 8.4 percent, lower by 3 percentage points than the 11.4 percent in 2005. The average inflation rate for beverages and tobacco eased to 4.3 percent in 2006…

The 2005 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) covered a total of 95,812 hotel and restaurant establishments. Of the total, 92,198 establishments or 96.2 percent had an average total employment (ATE) of less than 20, while only 3…

A total of 366,185 establishments were covered in the 2005 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) for Wholesale and Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles, Motorcycles and Personal and Household Goods Sector. Establishments with…

Value of Production continues its downtrend in March 2007 Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry was still on its downtrend as it posted a decrease of 5.2 percent in March 2007, according to the preliminary results of the…

Export earnings in March 2007 inched up by 10.6 percent to $4.566 billion from $4.127 billion in March 2006. Receipts from merchandise exports during January to March, on the other hand, rose by 13.1 percent to $12.270 billion from $10.847 billion…

Producer Price Index (PPI) registers increase Producer Price Index (PPI) for the manufacturing industry posted an increment of 2.6 percent in March 2007 compared with the year-ago figure. Fourteen (14) major sectors registered increases in the PPI…

The Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) registered an increase of 0.2 percent in March from 0.1 percent in February. This can be attributed to the higher increments seen in the prices of fuels…

Year-on-year headline inflation rate at the national level moved upward to 2.3 percent in April from 2.2 percent in March as the inflation of food, beverages and tobacco (FBT), fuel, light and water (FLW) and services went up. Inflation a year ago…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR and AONCR correspondingly recorded at 129.8 and 134.6 in April were higher than their respective March levels of 129.7 and 134.1.