Aug 12 (Reuters) - Indonesian ride-hailing giant GoTo Gojek
Tokopedia will be removed from MSCI's ( MSCI ) Indonesia index
at the end of this month, the index provider said on Wednesday,
dealing another setback to the country's equity markets.
GoTo, once valued at about $29 billion and among Indonesia's
most valuable companies, has seen its market value fall to $3.2
billion, with its shares stuck at 50 rupiah, or less than a U.S.
cent, since mid-May.
On the exchange's main trading boards, 50 rupiah is the
minimum trading price.
MSCI ( MSCI ) froze changes to GoTo in its indexes in late May over
concerns that the company's low liquidity could make it
difficult for index-tracking investors to trade the stock in
sufficient size.
FTSE Russell in June removed GoTo from its global equity
index series (GEIS) mid-cap index after the company was listed
on the Indonesian stock exchange's development board, a market
that does not meet FTSE Russell's eligibility criteria for GEIS.
GoTo did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for
comment outside business hours.
MSCI ( MSCI ), in its August index review, added 55 companies to its
All Country World Index, and deleted 92 companies.
($1 = 17,865.0000 rupiah)