Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Market players chose to wait and see Bank Indonesia (BI) to announce a number of polices including on loan to value of sharia banks, single presence and lending interest rate, analysts said.

Samuel Sekuritas Indonesia`s analyst Yualdo Yudoprawiro said here Friday the measures to be taken by the central bank would make it difficult for shares like banking and automotive shares to climb.

Yualdo predicted the composite share price index of the Indonesian Stock Exchange would hover around 4,316 points.

In the first session Friday , the BEI index weakened 0.02 percent to 4,334.86 points with index of 45 most liquid stocks slipping 0.04 percent to 744.17 points.

The European market extended gain in four successive days on Friday on an increase recorded by the index of HSBC Manufacture of China reaching a 13-month peak.

Improvement of the Chinese manufacture data was responded with an increase in the metal prices by 0.3 percent on the average.

Meanwhile the US market closed trade on Thursday to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Asian markets opened mixed on Friday with investors choosing to wait and see the result of the meeting of European leaders on bail-out fund for Greece. (*)

Editor: Heru Purwanto
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