{"id":913725,"date":"2026-09-29T06:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913725\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T06:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:14:14","slug":"biz-sentiment-falls-in-september-on-rising-costs-bok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913725\/","title":{"rendered":"Biz sentiment falls in September on rising costs: BOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/25a67d86-ad5b-4d25-99d8-b6edaa5a099f.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1142; width: 100%\" alt=\"Containers are stacked at a port in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, Sept. 6. Yonhap\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Containers are stacked at a port in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, Sept. 6. Yonhap<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Korea&#8217;s business sentiment contracted in September from a nearly four-year high in August, largely due to increased costs, a central bank survey showed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The Composite Business Sentiment Index (CBSI) for all industries stood at 99.1 in September, down 0.5 point from the previous month, according to data from the Bank of Korea (BOK).<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The reading rose to the highest level in August since September 2022, after the COVID-19 pandemic, with the index reaching 102.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The index measures corporate outlooks on overall business conditions, with a reading below 100 indicating that pessimists outnumber optimists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The BOK said sentiment in the non-manufacturing sector, including transportation and leisure, improved, while the manufacturing sector suffered a decline in the business sentiment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The CBSI among manufacturers stood at 99.5 this month, down from 103.8 the previous month, while the index for nonmanufacturing companies increased to 98.9 from 96.7 over the cited period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The outlook for October stood at 99.6, unchanged from the previous month, the survey showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Containers are stacked at a port in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, Sept. 6. Yonhap Korea&#8217;s business sentiment contracted in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-913725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}