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June 27, 2017 edition

As we enter the last week of Ramadan fasting month, the Rupiah is trending stronger, hovering around the Rp13,300 per US dollar level, even with the second US Federal Reserve's 25 basis points rate hike. Meanwhile, Jakarta's Composite Index (JCI) has also risen and now is fluctuating around the 5,700 level. All this is due to the rising inflow of foreign funds, partly a result of the country's recent rating upgrade to investment category by Standard & Poor's. This explains Bank Indonesia's (BI) subsequent response of keeping its benchmark 7-day repo rate at 4.75 percent.

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June 20, 2017 edition

A chronic anxiety is slowly but surely enveloping financial markets in the past week. No, it is not The Federal Reserve interest rate hike that investors are worried about. It is The Fed's plan to trim its own assets that made analysts busy redoing their calculations.

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June 13, 2017 edition

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June 6, 2017 edition

Two months since the new raw sugar import regulations, director of food, seafood, and fishery, Abdul Rochim, has to repeatedly explain the regulations' purpose to stakeholders, particularly to farmers.

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May 30, 2017 edition

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May 23, 2017 edition

High political tension in the last two weeks have not brought any ill tidings to Indonesian financial markets. Investors seem unaffected by the unrest on the future of the country's diversity, which is fundamental to its existence and unity. Amidst this tension, S&P Global Ratings raised Indonesia's credit rating into investment grade of BBB-. In the last 40 minutes of trading last friday, share price soared by 2,59 percent.

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May 16, 2017 edition

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