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Kamis, 19 Februari 2009

BUMI Kembali Kuasai Lantai Bursa

BUMI Kembali Kuasai Lantai Bursa
Indro Bagus SU - detikFinance


Jakarta - Saham PT Bumi Resources Tbk (BUMI) tampaknya kembali menjadi primadona di lantai bursa dan menjadi incaran investor. Sejumlah analis asing pun memasang target hingga Rp 1.600.

Ketika BUMI disangkut-pautkan dengan masalah repo induknya PT Bakrie & Brothers Tbk (BNBR) yang bernilai triliunan rupiah, serta menerima serangan masalah terkait akuisisi BUMI ke 3 perusahaan senilai Rp 6,191 triliun, nilai transaksi harian BUMI memang sempat anjlok tajam. Malah, saham BUMI sampai didepak dari indeks saham LQ45.

Namun, justru setelah didepak nilai transaksi BUMI kembali menggeliat hebat dan terus menanjak. Tampaknya investor mulai mengesampingkan isu negatif seputar BUMI dan mulai kembali melihat pada kinerja fundamental perseroan menjelang laporan keuangan tahun 2008 yang rencananya dikeluarkan awal Maret 2009.

"Terlepas dari kontroversi transaksi 3 akuisisi BUMI, investor tampaknya mulai kembali mengincar saham BUMI. Karena pada dasarnya, fundamental BUMI masih sangat bagus," ujar pengamat pasar modal Hendra Bujang saat dihubungi detikFinance, Rabu (18/2/2009) malam.

Pada hari pertama perdagangan bulan ini, yakni 2 Februari 2009, nilai transaksi BUMI ditutup sebesar Rp 42,733 miliar atau hanya sekitar 5,53% dari nilai transaksi IHSG sebesar Rp 771,416 miliar. Dalam dua hari setelah itu, penguasaan saham BUMI terhadap IHSG masih di kisaran 5-6%.

Namun pada perdagangan 5 Februari 2009, secara mendadak nilai transaksi BUMI melonjak drastis menjadi Rp 344,021 miliar atau sekitar 28,72% dari total nilai transaksi di BEI sebesar Rp 1,197 triliun.

Penguasaan BUMI pada hari-hari berikutnya terus menanjak. Puncaknya, pada perdagangan 9 Februari 2009, nilai transaksi saham BUMI mencapai Rp 683,611 miliar atau setara dengan 47,75% dari total nilai transaksi BEI sebesar Rp 1,431 triliun.

Meski pada hari-hari berikutnya sedikit mengalami koreksi, namun penguasaan BUMI terhadap IHSG masih di kisaran 20,69% hingga 36,85%.

Pada perdagangan pekan ini, penguasaan BUMI di lantai bursa memang sempat kembali menurun ke level 8,23%. Namun berangsur-angsur kembali menanjak.

Pada perdagangan kemarin, Rabu 18 Februari 2009, BUMI kembali memimpin kenaikan IHSG. Nilai transaksi BUMI kemarin sebesar Rp 219,053 miliar atau menguasai 19,32% dari total nilai transaksi BEI.

Pergerakan harga saham BUMI dalam bulan ini pun naik cukup tajam. Pada 2 Februari 2009, BUMI ditutup di level Rp 500. Pada 9 Februari 2009, BUMI sempat menembus harga Rp 780, naik 56% dari harga pada 2 Februari 2009.

Pada perdagangan kemarin, BUMI ditutup di level Rp 740, naik Rp 50 dari penutupan sebelumnya Rp 690. "Kalau bicara valuasi, harga yang wajar untuk BUMI berada di kisaran Rp 1.000 ke atas," ujar Hendra.

Hal senada diungkapkan oleh beberapa analis dari sekuritas asing seperti David Chang dari UOB KayHian, Andreas BokkenHeuser dari UBS, dan Kenny Sujatman dari Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

Kenny memasang target BUMI di level Rp 1.000. David memasang target sedikit lebih tinggi di level Rp 1.010. Andreas memasang target lebih berani, di level Rp 1.600.

Menurut ketiga analis tersebut, opini yang berkembang seputar BUMI seharusnya tidak dijadikan acuan. Mereka pun melihat bahwa investor sudah mulai kembali melihat kinerja fundamental BUMI, ketimbang menunggu hasil keputusan regulasi soal rumor negatif seputar BUMI.

"Kami percaya bahwa menerapkan asumsi yang lebih konservatif misalnya mengkaji peningkatkan capex dan beban hutang akan lebih obyektif bagi investor dibandingkan dengan menerapkan premi risiko sekedarnya berdasarkan sentimen pasar yang sudah terlanjur negatif," kata Andreas.

Sedangkan David Chang dari UOB menyatakan bahwa sampai saat ini Badan Pengawas Pasar Modal & Lembaga Keuangan (Bapepam-LK) tidak mengindikasikan pelanggaran hukum dalam akuisisi BUMI atas tiga perusahaan tersebut. David juga mengatakan bahwa diskonto yang diterapkan dalam valuasi terhadap saham BUMI sudah terlalu berlebihan.

"BUMI adalah saham yang paling murah di Asia Pacific setelah harga sahamnya jatuh lebih dari 90 persen. Price to Earning (PE) ratio BUMI hanya 1,1 kali, jauh di bawah rata-rata valuasi saham batu bara di Asia Pacific yang mencapai 8,7 kali atau 4,7 kali di Indonesia. Padahal BUMI adalah exportir batu bara thermal terbesar di dunia," kata David.

Hampir senada, Kenny mengatakan walaupun 3 akuisisi yang diumumkan BUMI telah menimbulkan kontroversi, hal itu tidak meningkatkan premi risiko atas BUMI. Kenny menyimpulkan bahwa pasar terlalu fokus kepada sentimen negatif.

"Laporan yang muncul belakangan ini soal akuisisi BUMI cenderung didasarkan pada sentimen emosional ketimbang analisis fundamental," ujarnya.

Bicara soal fundamental BUMI, David memprediksi perolehan pendapatan BUMI tahun 2008 akan mencapai 3,483 miliar, naik 53,77% dibanding tahun 2007 sebesar US$ 2,265 miliar. Laba bersih BUMI tahun 2008 diperkirakan sebesar US$ 606,8 juta, naik 91,41% dari laba bersih tahun 2007 sebesar US$ 317 juta (di luar transaksi dengan Tata sebesar US$ 472 juta).

Tahun ini, David memproyeksikan BUMI bakal membukukan pendapatan US$ 4,27 miliar, naik 22,59% dibanding pendapatan tahun 2008. Laba bersih 2009 diperkirakan sebesar US$ 804,3 juta, naik 32,54% dari tahun 2008.

Selasa, 17 Februari 2009

Japan Finance Minister to Step Down After G7 Furore

Topics:Economy (Global) | G7 | Politics & Government | Japan
By: Reuters | 16 Feb 2009 | 08:55 PM ET
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Japanese
Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa said on Tuesday he would resign,
following criticism of his behavior at a weekend G7 news conference in
Rome. Nakagawa, who denied being drunk at the news conference, said he
intended to resign after the government's budget is passed by the lower
house of parliament.

CNBC.com
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Prime
Minister Taro Aso had asked his close ally Shoichi Nakagawa to stay in
his post on Monday, but emboldened opposition parties were set to grill
the minister again in parliament and have said they would submit a
censure motion to the upper house if his answers fail to satisfy.
"It
was a sloppy performance that damaged our country's interests. Prime
Minister Taro Aso can not neglect this situation that symbolizes the
slackness in his administration," the Mainichi newspaper said in an
editorial on Tuesday.
"The
(opposition) Democratic Party is considering a censure motion against
Nakagawa, but the prime minister himself must show responsibility for
the weakening morals in his administration. "It would be irresponsible
to pretend not to notice after having caused trouble to the public."
The
fuss over Nakagawa's behavior at the news conference comes as Aso's
public support is plummeting -- below 10 percent in one survey
published on Sunday -- ahead of an election that must be held no later
than October and as the economy sinks deeper into recession.
Surveys
show the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan has a good shot at
ousting Aso's Liberal Democrats, ending more than 50 years of almost
unbroken rule.
Nakagawa,
55, repeated on Tuesday that he had not done more than sip some wine
before the news conference at the end of the Group of Seven meeting of
finance leaders in Rome on Saturday.


He has blamed cold medicine for affecting his
behavior, and said he would submit a note from his doctor about the
drugs he took on the trip.
"It's true that there was wine in front of me. I sipped but it's not like I drank," Nakagawa told reporters.
Nippon Television reported that he had gone to the hospital for checks ahead of an expected appearance in parliament.
Nakagawa's
resignation will be a heavy blow to Aso, struggling to keep his own
grip on power after a series of gaffes and policy flip-flops. The
departure, however, was unlikely to have much effect on economic
policies.
Health
and Labour Minister Yoichi Masuzoe told reporters that it would be
ill-advised to replace Nakagawa, who is in charge of the budget as well
as banking supervision, at the present time.
"It
would be a minus to change the minister in charge of the budget at at
time when the budget is being debated in parliament," Kyodo news agency
quoted him as saying.
Aso
is trying to enact an extra budget for the fiscal year ending on March
31 as well as a record 88.5 trillion yen ($965 billion) budget for the
year to March 2010 to help stimulate the economy, now sinking deeper
into recession.
There
have been calls for additional stimulus after data released on Monday
showed the world's second biggest economy in its sharpest quarterly
decline since the 1974 oil crisis.


Global downturn has slashed demand for Japan's cars, tech and other exports and economists warn of more pain ahead.
Consumer Affairs Minister Seiko Noda, however, had harsh words for her colleague.
"It
was a shocking video," she said of the video of the Group of Seven news
conference in Rome, where Nakagawa slurred his words and appeared to
fall asleep at one point. "Whether he quits or not is up to the
minister or to the prime minister, who appointed him," Kyodo quoted
Noda as telling reporters.
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With No Budget, California to Cut 20,000 State Jobs

California, which is on the brink of running
out of cash, will notify 20,000 state workers on Tuesday their jobs may
be eliminated, a spokesman for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on
Monday.

The
announcement came a day after California lawmakers narrowly failed to
pass a $40 billion budget that would have plugged the state's deficit
with a mix of tax hikes and spending cuts.

"In
the absence of a budget, the governor has a responsibility to realize
state savings any way he can," said Aaron McLear, a spokesman for the
Republican governor. "This is unfortunately a necessary decision."

The
layoff notices will affect about 20 percent of state workers, McLear
said, adding the cuts would extend to every part of state government.

The positions would be eliminated in June in preparation for California's next fiscal year, which starts in July.


California,
America's most populous state and the world's eighth biggest economy,
has experienced a dramatic fall in revenues because of the housing
downturn, rising unemployment and a sharp pullback in consumer
spending.
To
conserve cash, the state has stopped public works projects, furloughed
state employees for two days a month and postponed sending out tax
refunds.
Copyright 2009 Reuters. Click for restrictions.

Senin, 16 Februari 2009

Japan Government Support Falls to 9.7%

Japan Government Support Falls to 9.7%
Topics:Politics & Government | Economy (Global) | Japan | Earnings
By: Associated Press | 15 Feb 2009 | 08:53 PM ET
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Public
support for Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso's cabinet has slumped to
9.7 percent, broadcaster NTV said on Sunday, a level likely to boost
calls to replace him ahead of an election that must be held by October.

CNBC.com
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Aso's
support has been sliding after a series of policy flip-flops and gaffes
as he struggles with a deepening recession, a divided parliament and a
fractious ruling party.
The
poll results were the latest bad news for the 68-year-old Aso as he
prepares for a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from
Monday.
Recent
surveys suggest the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)
stands a good chance of winning the next election for parliament's
powerful lower house.
That
would end more than 50 years of almost unbroken LDP rule and usher in a
government pledged to break the grip bureaucrats have on policy, reduce
social gaps that critics say widened because of Koizumi's reforms, and
adopt a diplomatic stance more independent of Washington.
Clinton was expected to meet DPJ leader Ichiro Ozawa on Tuesday to sound out his views on the alliance.
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) tapped Aso last September in hopes he could lead them to victory at the polls.
Instead, his support has declined sharply, making him wary of calling a snap election. Aso
has repeatedly said his top priority is to rescue the economy from
recession, and on Sunday Kyodo news agency reported the government
would draft additional steps that could require up to 20 trillion yen
($217.6 billion) in new spending.

Rabu, 11 Februari 2009

Bernanke Faces Congress, Says Fed Easing Strains

The U.S. Federal Reserve believes the extraordinary programs aimed at stabilizing credit and banking have improved market conditions and eased strains despite a drumbeat of negative economic news, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday.

Ben Bernanke
Dennis Cook / AP

"We have been encouraged by the responses to these programs,'' Bernanke said in testimony to the House Financial Services Committee.

Bernanke's comments failed to calm disquiet in the stock market, however. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was sharply lower Tuesday.

"The comments are pretty straight forward," Kurt Karl, head of economic research and consulting at Swiss Re, told Reuters. "Of course it doesn't reassure the market. It is not terribly revealing. It does not look like there is any new information here."

Bernanke said aggressive responses by the Fed and other central banks to the financial crisis of the last 18 months have helped reduced interbank lending rates internationally and taken some of the steam out of liquidity pressures at the end of 2008.

Lawmakers at the hearing expressed concern about the Fed's use of emergency powers and disclosure of information surrounding special lending facilities.

However, Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, added he believes the Fed has used its authority responsibly in the crisis.

Fed officials are considering providing the public with more information about the central bank's balance sheet and lending policies, Bernanke said.

The Fed has more than doubled the size of its balance sheet to greater than $1.8 trillion since the middle of last year as it has pumped money into the financial system and propped up failing institutions.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Fed announced it would expand a program aimed at supporting consumer lending to $1 trillion from $200 billion as part of the Obama administration's initiative to rescue the banking sector.

Bernanke told the panel that 95 percent of the Fed's lending, worth about $1.9 trillion, is "extremely safe.'' The remainder of the Fed's lending linked to its propping up of investment bank Bear Stearns and insurer American International Group is "a bit less secure,'' but not likely to lose money, he added.

Bernanke said the Fed has unfurled emergency authorities not used since the 1930s to stabilize financial markets. As financial conditions improve and markets return to normal, the Fed will unwind those programs, he said.

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Sell stocks or stay put

NEW YORK (Money) -- Question: I've been sticking with my investments in the hopes that the market will recover, but I'm tired of seeing the value of my portfolio continue to drop. Should I just sell everything, put the proceeds into money-market funds and bonds and wait until we see an upturn before getting back in the market? Or should I hang in there with my present portfolio of stocks and mutual funds?  Eric Rosenberg, Little River, South Carolina

Answer: You've asked two questions that I'm sure nearly all investors are grappling with today to one degree or another.

Given the market's dismal performance, should you sell your stock holdings, hunker down in safer investments and jump back into equities after stock prices have rebounded?

Or should you just ride out these tough times with the portfolio of stocks and funds you already have?

It may seem that by answering the first question, I would also automatically be answering the second. But in fact, even though these two questions are related, they require separate answers.

So let me start with the first: The answer is no.

Dumping stocks

On the face of it selling now, sitting safely on the sidelines and then reinvesting once stock prices have recovered seems like the obvious choice. After all, why own stocks when the market is struggling if you can simply wait until the turnaround arrives and buy in then?

Not so fast. The problem is that it's hard to tell when stock prices have bottomed out and are turning around for the longer term.

Let's take a quick example. In early October, 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a peak close of 14,164.53. Then the you-know-what hit the you-know-what. The Dow began falling, eventually dropping 17% by the beginning of March, 2008.

But then the market began to dramatically improve. By early April, 2008, the Dow had rebounded almost 5%. And by early May it was up 11% from where it had been just two months earlier.

If you had pulled out of the market in late 2007 or early 2008, you might very well have seen the rally in the spring of 2008 -- a double-digit gain in less than two months -- as a signal to get back in. It looked like stocks were back.

But with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, we now know that this rebound fizzled, and stocks dropped again. The Dow plummeted 42% between May and late November, 2008.

Ah, but the Dow then rebounded by 20% from November, 2008 to early January, 2009. Sign of the big turnaround? Apparently not. By the end of January, the Dow had slumped 11%.

My point is to show that people are being unrealistic when they talk about moving out of stocks to avoid losses with the aim of getting back in to reap returns after they've turned around. It's easy to distinguish promising-but-aborted rallies from sustainable long-term turnarounds when you're looking at past performance. It's quite a different matter when you're living through the ups and downs in real time.

The rub is that you have no sure way of knowing in advance whether a rebound is going to continue or give way to another downdraft. You can try waiting it out. But how long do you wait? A week? Months? Until stock prices have increased by a certain amount, say, 20%?

But remember, if you set the bar too low, you run the risk of getting in too early and getting hit for a loss again. The longer you wait, on the other hand, the more return you give up before you get back in.

Keep in mind too that if you jump back in only to get burned by another setback, you may very well become gun shy about re-entering the market again, which may mean more delay about getting back in and more lost return in the future.

Rather than play this sort of pointless guessing game, I believe you're better off coming up with an allocation of stocks, bonds and cash that makes sense given your tolerance for risk and your investing time horizon. Then, aside from periodic rebalancing, selling for tax losses and routine maintenance like weeding out investment that backfired or that you shouldn't have bought in the first place, you largely leave your portfolio alone.

You want to limit your stock holdings if you're investing for short-term goals or you need extra security for your portfolio, as is the case for most retirees. If you're investing for longer term goals, you have more time to recover from short-term setbacks, so you can afford to allocate more of your money to stocks.

This sort of diversification won't immunize you from losses. But it will give you a good shot at maximizing your returns. And it's better than engaging in the futile exercise of trying to figure out when to exit and then get back into the market.

Staying put

Which brings me to your second question: Should you just hang in with your present portfolio of stocks and mutual funds?

The fact is I don't know whether you should stick with your present portfolio because you have given me no clue as to what your portfolio looks like or why you're investing this money.

If you're 30 years old, planning to retire in 30 or so years and have 80% or more of your money in a well-diversified group of stocks with the rest in a broad mix of bonds, then I'd probably say you have what seems like a decent mix of assets for someone willing to take reasonable risks for long-term capital growth.

If, on the other hand, you're in your 60s and have the same portfolio, I'd probably tell you that hanging onto your current portfolio would be a mistake. It's likely far too risky for your situation.

In short, the issue of whether you should stick with your current portfolio really comes down to whether your portfolio is appropriate for your situation. You can get a better sense of that by going to our Asset Allocator, reading our Money 101 lesson on Asset Allocation or consulting an adviser.

So to sum up, yes, I think you should resist the impulse to switch out of stocks and into bonds and cash, however tempting doing so may be in today's scary market. But before you simply stay the course with your current portfolio, make sure you've set the right course in the first place.

Pelemahan IHSG Belum Berhenti

Jakarta - Pasar saham dalam negeri diprediksi masih akan melanjutkan pelemahan karena minimnya insentif segar dari dalam negeri. Secara bersamaan bursa global juga cenderung melemah yang bisa memberikan sentimen negatif.

Pelaku pasar belum begitu berani melakukan pembelian besar-besaran. Investor masih akan fokus pada saham perbankan yang terancam mengalami penurunan laba di 2008.

Selain itu, pada perdagangan saham Rabu (11/2/2009) Indeks Harga Saham Gabungan (IHSG) juga akan sangat tergantung dari pergerakan saham Bumi Resources.

Emiten batubara ini tidak pernah sepi dari berita, kini pasar sedang mengkalkulasi dampak dari pernyataan Bapepam LK yang mengatakan transaksi akuisisi 3 perusahaan oleh BUMI merupakan transaksi material.

Sementara itu bursa utama Asia, Nikkei Jepang hari ini tutup karena libur nasional. Sedangkan Wall Street mengalami penurunan parah setelah Menteri Keuangan AS Timothy Geithner gagal memberikan harapan terkait upaya stabilisasi keuangan.

Pada penutupan perdagangan Selasa waktu AS (10/2/2009), indeks Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) ditutup merosot hingga 381,99 poin (4,62%) ke level 7.888,88 atau mendekati level terendahnya dalam 3 bulan terakhir.

Indeks Nasdaq juga merosot hingga 66,83 poin (4,20%) ke level 1.524,73 dan indeks Standard & Poor's 500 juga turun hingga 42,73 poin (4,91%) ke level 827,16.

Geithner mengumumkan rencana yang luar biasa yakni terkait rencana penyelamatan sektor perbankan dengan menempatkan US$ 2 triliun untuk membersihkan aset-aset bermasalah dan memperbaiki kualitas kredit.

Termasuk dalam rencana tersebut adalah US$ 500 miliar hingga US$ 1 triliun untuk mengambil set-aset bermasalah dari sistem finansial. Juga upaya untuk meningkatkan kredit konsumer, membatasi penyitaan rumah dan menyediakan modal baru untuk perbankan.

Namun investor khawatir rencana nan muluk itu justru tidak berhasil. Para pelaku pasar justru merasa frustasi. Mereka menilai Geithner tidak memberikan rincian dari rencana yang sudah dinanti-nanti tersebut.

Sementara pada penutupan perdagangan saham Selasa kemarin (10/2/2009) IHSG turun 10,097 poin (0,75%) menjadi 1.332,129.

Berikut rekomendasi saham dari perusahaan sekuritas.

eTrading Securities

BUMI kemarin menjadi berita utama seiring keberhasilannya menggerakkan bursa Indonesia pada sesi II dan membukukan hampir 37% total transaksi kemarin. Keputusan Bappepam bahwa transaksi akuisisi BUMI adalah material membuat saham ini naik 7% kemarin. Indeks kembali ditutup melemah tipis, -0,7% ke level 1332,1 dengan Trading Value kembali mencapai Rp1,4 triliun. Profit taking dan mixednya sentiment di bursa Global membawa indeks bergerak sideways kemarin.

Sementara bursa US kembali mengalami hari yang buruk semalam dengan DOW terkoreksi tajam -4,6% ke level 7888,8 (terendah sejak 20 November). Hal ini disebabkan investor melakukan ‘Buy on Rumor & Sell on News’ setelah menteri keuangan US mengumumkan detail proposal Bail-out II sector financial semalam. Selain Sell on News, pasar juga merespon negative pada rencana bail-out tersebut yang dirasa tidak tepat sasaran. S&P500 -4,9%, Nasdaq -4,2%.

Bursa Asia pagi ini turut dibuka terkoreksi seiring sentiment negative dari sector financial US. KOSPI -1,9%, STI -0,8% dan AORD -1%. Harga minyak masih terus terkoreksi dan berada di level US$38/barrel, sementara CPO di Malaysia kembali menguat dan menembus level 2000 seiring penurunan output Soybean di Amerika Latin dan kekeringan di China.

Bursa Indonesia hari ini diperkirakan akan bergerak mixed to lower seiring negatifnya sentiment dari bursa global. Namun hari ini, investor diperkirakan akan focus pada pergerakan saham BUMI yang mendapat katalis positif dari keputusan Bappepam kemarin. Indeks diperkirakan bergerak pada kisaran 1310 – 1350.

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