The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT in NCR slightly went down to 123.8 in December from 123.9 in November. On the other hand, the seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT in AONCR rose to 128.1 in December from its last month?s level of 127.6.

The year-on-year headline inflation rate in the Philippines decelerated to 6.6 percent in December from 7.1 percent in November. The slower annual inflation rates posted in the indices of all the commodity groups except for housing and repairs (H…

The Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) registered a slower rate of increment of 0.3 percent in November from 1.1 percent in October. The price of cement dropped to -0.1 percent from 0.6 percent…

Total external trade in goods for January to October 2005 reached $70.895 billion, a 1.5 percent growth from $69.835 billion during the same period of the previous year. Expenditures for total foreign-made merchandise slightly increased by 0.3…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for the manufacturing industry continued to pick up at 13.9 percent in October 2005 compared with a year-ago figure, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI…

The Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) went up to 1.1 percent in October from 0.2 percent in September. This can be attributed to the higher increments seen in the prices of cement, 0.6 percent…

The number of underemployed persons or those who desired additional hours of work was estimated at 7.0 million in October 2005 as compared to 5.4 million a year ago. Thus, the rate of underemployment was recorded at 21.2 percent, up by 4.3…

Export earnings for October 2005 declined by 3.2 percent to $3.634 billion from $3.753 billion during the same period a year earlier. Receipts from merchandise exports during the period January to October 2005 grew by 3.2 percent to $33.764 billion…

Sixteen-year-old Monzenn Carlo Y. Mallari of Ateneo de Manila University outshined 16 other hopefuls from various regions in the country to bring home the national championship trophy in the 14th Philippine Statistics Quiz (PSQ) held on December 6,…