Total Gross Revenue Index grew by 6.8 percent in the third quarter of 2016. This is higher than the 4.2 percent growth in the same quarter of the previous year. This performance was led by Real Estate, Finance and Private Services. Real Estate…

The year-on-year growth of the Construction Materials Retail Price Index (CMRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) decelerated by 1.8 percent in December 2016.

As of September 1, 2014, the total rice stock inventory was 1.49 million metric tons (Figure 1). This was 13.5 percent lower than last month’s inventory of 1.72 million metric tons and 2.7 percent below the 1.53 million metric tons record in…

There were no changes in the geographical-political units of the country during the last quarter of 2016 (01 October 2016 - 31 December 2016), hence, there were no Philippine Standard Geographic Code (PSGC) updates during the quarter. Consequently,…

Preliminary results of the 2014 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) conducted nationwide, showed that a total of 3,546 establishments with total employment (TE) of 20 and over in the formal sector of the economy were engaged in…

The Philippines’ export sales amounted to $4.732 billion in November 2016, a 7.5 percent decrease from $5.118 billion recorded value in November 2015.

The total imported goods by the country for the month of November 2016 amounted to $7.298 billion, an increase of 19.7 percent from $6.095 billion recorded during the same period a year ago.

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for manufacturing picked up by 10.6 percent in November 2016 from the negative 2.2 percent during the same month of last year, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected…

The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for manufacturing moved downward by 3.5 percent in November 2016 from the negative 6.2 percent during the same period last year.

The Philippines’ year-on-year headline inflation inched up 2.6 percent in December 2016. It was registered at 2.5 percent last month and 1.5 percent in December 2015. This was primarily due to higher annual increment recorded in the heavily-weighted…