Philippine trade year-on-year performance (February 2019)
THE COUNTRY’s trade-in-goods deficit widened in February as exports contracted while imports grew at a slower pace, the government reported on Thursday. Read the...
Snapshots of Philippine poverty statistics: first semester, 2015 vs 2018
FEWER FILIPINOS were mired in poverty in the first half of 2018, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Wednesday. Read the full story.
Headline Inflation Rates in the Philippines
THE slower-than-expected March inflation rate bolsters the case for cuts in policy interest rates this year, bank economists said in separate analyses, with the...
ASEAN Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index, March
MANUFACTURING in the country improved at its slowest pace in eight months in March, as output increased at the softest rate in seven, according...
Business Expectations Survey
INVESTOR and consumer sentiment received a huge lift as the year opened, riding expectations of more business and job opportunities, according to latest results of quarterly surveys which the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) released on Thursday.