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Indonesia Stock Exchange shut for a second day
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-10-09 16:49


A broker sits at an empty trading room during normal working hours after trading was stopped in Jakarta October 9, 2008. Indonesia kept its stock exchange shut for a second day on Thursday after the index lost more than a fifth of its value this week, while officials scrambled to calm fears that Southeast Asia's top economy faces a new crisis. [Agencies]