Export earnings for March 2006 jumped by 25.8 percent to $4.110 billion from $3.268 billion during the same period of the previous year. The acceleration of more than twenty percent was the first time exports had recorded since July 2002 and the…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT items in NCR and AONCR correspondingly picked up to 126.0 and 131.0 in April from their respective March levels of 125.8 and 130.7.

The national year-on-year headline inflation rate slowed down to 7.1 percent in April from 7.6 percent in March as the annual inflation rates in all the commodity groups decelerated. Inflation a year ago was 8.5 percent.

Quantity of domestic trade declines, value increases In the third quarter of 2005, the total quantity of domestic trade transactions decreased by 26.4 percent, resulting to 4.05 million tons from 5.50 million tons reported during the same period of…

The Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) registered a slower rate of increment of 0.6 percent in February from 0.9 percent in January as prices of G.I. sheets further declined to -0.4 percent from…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry on a year-on-year basis registered an increase of 5.1 percent in February 2006 compared with the year-ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey…

Total external trade in goods for January to February 2006 amounted to $13.803 billion representing an increment of 6.1 percent from $13.007 billion during the same period of the previous year. Likewise, total foreign-made merchandise was up by 4.8…

The 2000 Input-Output (I-O) Accounts is now available for use by researchers, economic planners, policy makers, industries, academe and the general public. The 2000 benchmark I-O includes the I-O Transactions Table, the Technical Coefficient Matrix…

National Capital Region leads in number of manufacturing establishments The number of manufacturing establishments with average total employment (ATE) of 20 or more workers reached 5,899 in 2003. Food manufactures except beverages dominated the…

Export earnings for February 2006 grew by 9.8 percent to $3.296 billion from $3.000 billion during the same period a year earlier. Receipts from merchandise exports during January to February 2006 went up by 4.2 percent to $6.562 billion from $6.…