The annual increment of the Construction Materials Retail Price Index (CMRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) slowed down to 1.7 percent in March 2017.

The year-on-year growth of the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) slowed down to 3.8 percent in March 2017.

The total rice stock inventory as of March 1, 2017 was 2.18 million metric tons (Figure 1). This was 18.62 percent below the 2.67 million metric tons level in March 2016 and 5.23 percent lower than the previous month’s inventory level of 2.30…

Labor turnover in the National Capital Region (NCR) remained positive at 3.36% in the fourth quarter of 2016. Though slightly lower than the employment growth in the previous quarter, this is a marked improvement from the 0.62 percent labor turnover…

The total number of establishments engaged in water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities in the formal sector of the economy reached a total of 975, based on the final results of the 2014 Annual Survey of Philippine Business…

The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing advanced by 2.2 percent in February 2017 from the negative growth of 5.6 percent during the same period of previous year.

At the national level, the seasonally adjusted CPI for all items and non-food both went up by 0.4 percent in March from 0.3 percent in February.

The country’s annual headline inflation continued to go up as it was pegged at 3.4 percent in March 2017. It went up by 3.3 percent in the previous month and 1.1 percent in March 2016. Higher annual mark-ups were posted in the indices of the…