South Korea Business Sentiment Steady In October - BoK

(RTTNews) - Business confidence in South Korea was little changed in October, the Bank of Korea said in Friday's Business Survey Index on business conditions in the manufacturing sector - posting a score of 90, unchanged from the September reading.

The outlook fell from 93 to 88.

In the non-manufacturing sector, the BSI on business conditions for October was 84, up 5 points from the previous month, and that for the outlook for the following month also rose by 4 points to 85.

The Economic Sentiment Index (ESI) - a composite of the BSI and the CSI (Consumer Survey Index) - for October was 105.6, up 1.0 point from September.