Jim H. Wainwright, Columbia Financial director, buys $100,000 in stock

A rally in Indonesian stocks put the nation’s benchmark index on track for a bull market, helped by a regional rebound as well as a recent credit-rating announcement.

Half of surveyed economists still expect the Bank of Japan to wait until December to bump its benchmark interest rate higher, with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government seen as a key obstacle to further action, according to a Bloomberg survey.