{"id":145792,"date":"2018-01-12T04:05:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T09:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=145792"},"modified":"2018-01-12T04:05:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T09:05:09","slug":"construction-materials-wholesale-price-index-in-ncr-eases-in-dec-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/12\/construction-materials-wholesale-price-index-in-ncr-eases-in-dec-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction materials\u2019 wholesale price index in NCR eases in Dec \u201817"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_145797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145797\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/building-construction-building-site-constructing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145797\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/building-construction-building-site-constructing.jpg\" alt=\"(Pexels photo)\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/building-construction-building-site-constructing.jpg 940w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/building-construction-building-site-constructing-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/building-construction-building-site-constructing-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-145797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Declines in the wholesale price indices of cement and PVC pipes (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The wholesale price index of construction materials in the National Capital Region (NCR) eased last December, compared to the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>Data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Thursday showed that the wholesale price index of construction materials last month was at 4.3 percent, lower than November 2017\u2019s 4.7 percent; and 3.1 percent year-on-year in December 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Declines in the wholesale price indices of cement and PVC pipes at -2.7 percent and -0.2 percent contributed to the slowdown of construction materials\u2019 price index.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the decrements in the wholesale price indices of cement and PVC pipes, slower growth was also recorded in electrical works, growing by 0.4 percent; painting works, up by 1 percent; sand and gravel, 1.5 percent; tile works, up by 1.5 percent; lumber, up by 2.7 percent; reinforcing steel, up by 3.4 percent; structural steel, up by 4.6 percent; and fuels and lubricants, up by 14.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the price indices of hardware, GI sheet, doors, jambs, and steel casement, as well as plumbing fixtures and accessories\/waterworks were higher in December 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The wholesale price index of construction materials in the National Capital Region (NCR) eased last December, compared to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":145797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[42902,18492,13259],"class_list":["post-145792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-december","tag-national-capital-region","tag-philippine-statistics-authority","mauthors-kris-crismundo","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}