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Friday, December 28, 2007

Indonesian Stock Exchange third best in Asia Pacific


Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The performance of the Indonesian Stock Exchange (BEI) has been rated the third best among stock exchanges in the Asia and Pacific region, BEI Director Erry Firmansyah said on Friday.

"In terms of major indice, BEI is the third best performer in the region after the stock exchanges of Shenzen and Shanghai in China," he added.

He said in 2007, BEI booked a relatively huge gain, namely 51.74 percent.

In its 2006 closing, the indice were recorded at 1,805.52 points, and the figure increased 51.74 percent to the level of 2,739.704 points in 2007.

Meanwhile, the Shenzen and Shanghai stock exchanges booked a gain of 163.98 and 98.43 points respectively.

Ranked after Indonesia`s Stock Exchange were those of Mumbai (India), Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore and Dow Jones.

Meanwhile, the capitalization value of BEI increased 58.73 percent from Rp 1,249,1 trillion at the end of 2006 to Rp 1,982.7 trillion at the end of 2007.

Share transactions booked an increase of 133.99 percent to Rp 1,0442.9 trillion, while daily transactions increased 131.52 percent from Rp 1.84 trillion to Rp 4.26 trillion per day.(*)


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