Brokers work at the Jakarta Stock Exchange
Brokers work at the Jakarta Stock Exchange, Indonesia October 6, 2006. Indonesian shares jumped to a record high on Friday, led by banks and cement makers such as Bank Mandiri and Semen Gresik as investors focused on rate-sensitive stocks after the central bank cut interest rates. By the lunch break, Indonesian stocks had risen 0.46 percent after hitting a record high of 1556.210 points in earlier trade. The previous high on the Jakarta stock index, set on May 11 this year, was 1,553.488 points. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA)