Composite Stock Price Index (JCI) opened lower back. Monday (1/2/2010), JCI opened at 2587.75 levels weakened 0.88 percent. Attenuation supported several blue chip stocks such as PT Astra International Tbk (ASII) which fell 4.96 percent to Rp 35,000 per share. There was also the shares of PT Bank Central Asia Tbk (BBCA), which fell 2.36 [...]

- Until the end of December 2009, the bank had to channel financing of Rp 14.8 trillion to the food sector. This figure grew 11 percent compared with 2008.
Director of Corporate Banking Bank Mandiri Riswinandi Friday (29 / 1) in Jakarta said the soil and climate conditions in Indonesia strongly supports the development of various [...]

However, Deputy Governor of Central Bank of China, Zhu Min, said that the revaluation will not improve the world trade imbalance.
In front of the World Economic Forum in Davos, he said China was trying to increase domestic consumption, but warned some time to ask for China’s increasing spending.
Zhu said Beijing has been maintaining the yuan [...]

Government finally spoke up about how state officials pay raises. According to the Minister of Finance (Finance) Sri Mulyani, until now there has been no plan to raise the salaries of state officials.
Sri Mulyani explained that the program setting the salaries of state officials have been discussed with the Ministry of Administrative Reform (PAN) and [...]