For three consecutive months, year-on-year headline inflation rate in the Philippines was registered at 8.5 percent in April. Inflation a year ago was 4.3 percent. Excluding selected food and energy items, core inflation further decelerated to 7.8…

 

Number of building construction dips by 5.2 percent

Total external trade in goods for January to February 2005 amounted to $12.226 billion representing a growth of 1.7 percent from $12.016 billion during the same period a year earlier. However, total foreign-made merchandise was down by 3.4 percent…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry on a year-on-year basis increased by 11.0 percent in February 2005, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI). Significant…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry on a year-on-year basis increased by 11.0 percent in February 2005, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI). Significant…

The Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) moved at a slightly slower rate of increase of 0.5 percent in March from 0.6 percent in February. Increments in the prices of interior electrical fixtures…

Year-on-year inflation rate based on the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) went up at a slower rate of 9.7 percent in February from 10.0 percent in January.

Year-on-year inflation rate based on the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) accelerated to 10.2 percent in January from 9.7 percent in December.

Quantity of domestic trade decreased; value increased... The total quantity of domestic trade in the fourth quarter of 2004 declined by 34.7 percent, resulting to 4.53 million tons from 6.93 million tons registered during the same period of last…

The number of Overseas Filipinos Workers (OFWs) who worked abroad during the period April to September 2004 reached 1.06 million, up by 8.2 percent from 982 thousand a year ago. Of this total, 92.9 percent (988 thousand) were overseas contract…