The year-on-year inflation rate of the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level advanced by 6.3 percent in November from 5.3 percent in October. Annual price increments were higher in crude materials, inedible except fuels at 19.5…

The Producer Price Index (PPI) for the manufacturing industry recorded a slower growth of 0.9 percent increase in December 2007 compared to its year-ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the monthly Producer price Survey. This was…

The beginning of the year 2008 saw a higher year-on-year headline inflation rate in the Philippines at 4.9 percent in January from 3.9 percent in December. This was effected by the higher upward movements in the rates of all the commodity groups.…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT in NCR and AONCR registered at 136.6 and 141.7 in January were higher than their respective December levels of 135.9 and 140.2.

Generally, the retail prices of selected construction materials in NCR continued to remain stable as it still registered a zero growth rate in December. While no movement was still posted in the prices of carpentry materials, declines were seen in…

Total external trade in goods for January to November 2007 reached $96.116 billion, representing a 5.3 percent increment from $91.315 billion during the same 11-month period in 2006. Similarly, total imports grew by 5.7 percent to $50.318 billion…

The month-on-month inflation rate of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) went up at a slower pace to 0.5 percent in November from 1.1 percent in October. This was mainly due to the slowdown in the monthly rates…

The Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) registered a slower rate of increase of 0.1 percent in December from 0.2 percent in November as the index of machinery and equipment rental further dropped…

The major findings of the 2006 FIES will be presented by the National Statistics Office (NSO) in a Data Dissemination Forum on the Final Results of the 2006 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) slated at 2 pm on January 30, 2008 at the NSO…

Filipino families earned a total of P3.01 trillion in 2006 according to the final results of the 2006 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES). Distributing this total annual income among the estimated 17.4 million Filipino families in 2006…