THE percentage of Philippine companies with plans to hire more workers improved in the third quarter of the year amid their less upbeat expansion outlook, results of the latest central bank Business Expectation Survey (BES) showed.

Although the statement by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas on the survey gave no specific figure for the number of such companies, it said the confidence index (CI) of companies with expansion plans slipped to 32.8 percent in the latest survey from 34.6 percent in the second quarter.

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