GDP 2016 growth avg seen at 6.9% – analysts

Still up from 5.9% in 2015 despite Q4 2016 slowdown

Philippine economic growth in the fourth quarter of 2016 likely slowed from the third quarter and the year-earlier rates, most analysts polled by The Manila Times said, but their estimates for the whole of last year still averaged higher than the revised 5.9 percent increase achieved in 2015.