First quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth has been trimmed to 6.6 percent, from the 6.8 percent announced in May, ahead of today’s release of second quarter results.

In a statement, the Philippine Statistics Authority said the “major contributors to the downward revision were other services, manufacturing and agriculture and forestry.”

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