The Jakarta Composite Index, at the opening of trading Thursday (29/7), was up 18.09 points amid market players' attention will be focused on the performance of the first semester of 2021 domestic issuers, which started to be released.

"We expect the JCI to move higher in today's trading," said PT Samuel Sekuritas Research in Jakarta.

Meanwhile, at the opening of trading this Thursday, the JCI rose 18.09 points (0.3%) to 6,106.61. Meanwhile, the leading stock index LQ45 climbed 4.31 points (0.52%) to 835.01.

On the side of the global market, US stock exchanges closed mixed overnight where the Dow Jones index fell 0.36%, the S&P 500 lost 0.02%, and the Nasdaq rose 0.7%.

In its meeting last night, the Fed decided to keep its benchmark interest rate in the range of 0-0.25%, and debt purchases remained at US$120 billion per month, and there was no signal when the tapering off would begin.

Meanwhile, most Asian