IHSG Weakens, Asian Stock Markets Sluggish (Friday, October 31, 2025)

The IDX Composite Index (IHSG) fell by 0.25% to 8,163.88 at the close of trading on Friday (31/10/2025).

The decline of the IHSG was in line with stock exchanges in the Asian region, which generally closed in the red zone.

This afternoon, the Hang Seng index fell 1.43% to 25,906.65; the Shanghai index fell 0.81% to 3,954.79; the Strait Times index fell 0.2% to 8,820; while the Nikkei index rose 2.12% to 52,411.34.

"The majority of Asian stock exchanges closed weaker, even though US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping had agreed to extend the trade war truce between the two countries," said the Phillips Sekuritas Indonesia research team, as reported by Antara (31/10/2025).

Based on the IDX-IC Sectoral Index, six stock sectors corrected today. The industrial sector fell the deepest by 1.50%, followed by the property sector and the basic materials sector, which corrected by 1.16% and 0.96% respectively.

Meanwhile, the other five sectors strengthened. The infrastructure sector led with a 1.13% increase, followed by the transportation sector and the non-primary consumer goods sector, which rose by 0.57% and 0.32% respectively.

According to RTI Business data, the frequency of stock trading on the domestic exchange today was 1.97 million transactions.

The total shares traded reached 28.08 billion shares with a total transaction value of Rp19.17 trillion.

A total of 377 stocks closed weaker today, while 272 stocks strengthened, and 161 stocks remained stagnant.

The issuer with code UANG became today's top loser after falling 14.69%, followed by KOBX and KETR, which dropped 11.76% and 11.24% respectively.

Meanwhile, today's top gainer was DWGL, which soared 24.86%, followed by TBIG and LINK, which rose 24.61% and 24.45% respectively.