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Article: Retail prices in Metro Manila down in February? -- NSO.
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- Philippines News Agency
- Article date:
- April 30, 2009
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MANILA, April 30 (PNA) -- Retail prices in Metro Manila dropped by 4.7 percent in February this year from the same period a year ago, the National Statistics Office (NSO) reported Thursday. In its General Retail Price Index (GRPI), the agency said declines in prices on a monthly basis were registered in the heavily weighted food at -0.4 percent from 1.5 percent and in manufactured goods classified chiefly by materials at -0.2 percent from zero growth. Crude materials, inedible except fuels and miscellaneous manufactured articles, retained their previous month's rates of zero growth and 0.1 percent, respectively, the agency added. "The rest of the commodity groups posted ...