MANILA, Dec. 2 -- Producer Price Index (PPI) for Manufacturing expanded by 0.3 percent to 98.8 points in October 2025, driven by the manufacturing of a cola brand and refined petroleum products, among others.

Other factors that backed the sector are manufacturing of transport equipment and basic metals, data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Tuesday showed.

However, the growth of the Manufacturing PPI is slower than the 0.8 percent jump in the previous month due to lower output of computer and electronic and optical products, which accounted for around 56 percent of the slower annual growth for PPI.

Amidst the slower expansion, Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) chief economist Michael Ricafort, in a rep...