Year-on-year headline inflation rate in the Philippines picked up to 2.7 percent in September from 2.4 percent in August brought about by higher annual price increments of food, beverages and tobacco (FBT) index and in services items. Inflation a…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR and AONCR correspondingly recorded at 133.3 and 136.5 in September were higher than their respective August levels of 132.2 and 135.5.

Total external trade in goods for January to July 2007 reached $59.080 billion, representing a 5.1 percent increment from $56.189 billion during the same 7-month period in 2006. Similarly, total imports grew by 4.1 percent to $30.355 billion from $…

Value of Production recovers after 10 months Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry registered a year-on-year growth of 1.4 percent in July 2007, after the sluggish performance since September 2006, according to the…

The retail prices of selected construction materials in NCR generally went down by -0.1 percent in August compared to the 0.5 percent increase in July. Prices of carpentry materials and miscellaneous construction materials correspondingly dropped by…

The month-on-month inflation rate of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) registered at 0.4 percent in July was slower than the 0.7 percent growth in June. Increases in the prices of the heavily weighted food…

The 2005 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry covered a total of 16,756 Financial Intermediation establishments. Of the total figure, 15,980 establishments or 95.4 percent had an average total employment (ATE) of less than 20. The…

2007 It was the first time that the Technical Committee used up to 10 tie-breaking questions without breaking the tie in the fourth and fifth places, with the Board of Judges resorting to dividing equally the cash prizes for the two places, and…

The number of unemployed persons in July 2007 was reported at 2.8 million, resulting to an unemployment rate of 7.8 percent. Two regions recorded a double-digit unemployment rate, namely, National Capital Region (NCR) at 13.1 percent and Central…

The Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) registered a decline of -0.1 percent in August from 0.2 percent growth in July. This can be attributed to the decreases in the prices of cement at -0.1…