Bank of Korea keeps key interest rate at 1.5% for Oct.

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The Bank of Korea has kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at one-point-five percent for October at the central bank's penultimate meeting of the year.
The BOK has opted to stand pat yet again...after raising its key rate by a quarter-of-a-percentage point last November.
We'll have more details during our next newscast at noon, Korea time.

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The Bank of Korea has raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to one-point-75 percent .
For the first time this year, the BOK has raised its key rate....almost a year after lifting the rate by a quarter-of-a-percentage point last November.
We'll have more details during our next newscast at noon, Korea time.

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The Bank of Korea has cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to one-point-25 percent.
This comes after the Bank had raised its key rate for the first time in over six years in November 2017.
We'll have more details during our next newscast at noon, Korea time.