MSCI gets set to remove Indonesia from global indexes, sparks market slide to six-year low
MSCI said the change could force passive funds to sell Indonesian holdings and may trigger about $4 billion in outflows, UBS estimated.
- On Friday, Asian stocks rebounded following Thursday's heavy selling, when investors dumped technology shares amid concerns about cloud company Nvidia-backed CoreWeave's debt pile.
- CoreWeave's shares recovered on Thursday after extending Wednesday's 15.5% slump, as reports of distressed bond yields triggered a broad, AI-centered equity selloff globally.
- Indonesian stocks plunged more than 11% on Friday after index compiler New York-based MSCI announced plans to reclassify the country from 'Emerging Market' status.
- MSCI officials cited "ongoing opacity in shareholding structures" and suspected coordinated trading, warning that reclassification could force investment funds to sell Indonesian holdings.
- Capital markets analyst Kyle Rodda warned that global markets may face "a protracted period of this sort of volatility," with tech company earnings announcements due in the coming weeks.
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The index provider does not consider reforms to market transparency in Southeast Asia's largest economy to be sufficient. This has consequences for well-known ETFs – and causes historic losses.
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Asian Stocks Recover After AI Selloff as Indonesia’s Market Suffers Historic Decline
Asian stock markets rebounded on Friday as Japan's Nikkei and South Korea's KOSPI recovered from steep losses driven by concerns over artificial intelligence investments and financing. Indonesia's benchmark index plunged 11%, its biggest daily decline since 1998, after MSCI announced it was considering downgrading the country's market from emerging-market status.
Indonesia's main stock index fell by some 11% this Friday morning following the announcement of a possible reclassification of its stock market for transparency issues.
The index provider MSCI Inc. reported that he no longer considered it justified to keep Indonesia's stock market in the "emerging" category and that he was starting consultations on its conversion to "selected" markets.
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