March 2014

The country’s year-on-year inflation rate slowed down to 4.1 percent in February, from 4.2 percent in January. The National Statistics Office (NSO) reported that slower annual movements registered was due to the indices of alcoholic beverages and tobacco; and transport while the rest of the commodity groups were either higher or remained the same as their last month’s rate. Likewise, core inflation rate went down to 3.0 percent, from 3.2 percent in January 2014. Source: National Statistics Office, NSO

For the time-series data on year-on-year inflation rate. Please view Table

The monthly average peso-dollar exchange rate slightly went down to 44.895 in February, from 44.927 in January 2014. Source: Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, BSP

For the time-series data on monthly average peso-dollar exchange rate. Please view Table