Taiwan Stocks Surge Over 200 Points Intraday as TSMC Dips Ahead of Earnings Call
Amid hopes for US-Iran talks, the Taiwan Weighted Index surged over 200 points intraday. However, semiconductor giant TSMC saw its stock fall ahead of its afternoon earnings call.
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- 📰 Published: April 16, 2026 at 12:07
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(CNA Reporter Pan Chih-yi, Taipei, 16th) As the U.S. and Iran may engage in a second round of talks, major U.S. stock indices mostly rose. However, TSMC's ADR fell by 1.26%. TSMC is set to hold its institutional investor conference this afternoon. Its stock price fluctuated and moved lower, hitting a low of 2,055 NTD, down 25 NTD. The Taiwan stock market still surged over 200 points intraday, reaching a high near 36,992 points.
Around 10:30 AM, the Weighted Index reached 36,870.01 points, up 147.87 points, an increase of 0.4%, with a trading volume of 475.893 billion NTD.
In early trading, TSMC reached a high of 2,085 NTD, up 5 NTD, before turning black (falling) to a low of 2,055 NTD, down 25 NTD. Delta Electronics reached 1,840 NTD, up 55 NTD; Foxconn dipped slightly by 0.5 NTD to 207 NTD.
UMC surged to its daily limit of 68.3 NTD. ChipMOS at 73.7 NTD, PANJIT at 108 NTD, Andes Technology at 218.5 NTD, and ASMedia at 1,290 NTD all touched their daily upper limit prices during the session.
ASE Technology Holding announced yesterday that it would spend 14.85 billion NTD to acquire InnoLux's Fab5 plant and related ancillary facilities located in the Tainan Science Park. ASE's stock fell 7.5 NTD intraday to 439 NTD today, while InnoLux rose 0.65 NTD to 28.25 NTD.
Formosa Plastics reached 54.2 NTD intraday, up 3.63%; Nan Ya Plastics rose 3.05% to 91.2 NTD; Formosa Chemicals & Fibre reached 52.5 NTD, up 4.16%; Formosa Petrochemical reached 55.8 NTD, up 2.57%.
Oil, electricity, and natural gas concept stocks including Shin Hai, Taiwan Cogeneration, and National Petroleum all rose during the session. (Editor: Lin Jia-xian) 1150416
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(CNA Reporter Pan Chih-yi, Taipei, 16th) As the U.S. and Iran may engage in a second round of talks, major U.S. stock indices mostly rose. However, TSMC's ADR fell by 1.26%. TSMC is set to hold its institutional investor conference this afternoon. Its stock price fluctuated and moved lower, hitting a low of 2,055 NTD, down 25 NTD. The Taiwan stock market still surged over 200 points intraday, reaching a high near 36,992 points.
Around 10:30 AM, the Weighted Index reached 36,870.01 points, up 147.87 points, an increase of 0.4%, with a trading volume of 475.893 billion NTD.
In early trading, TSMC reached a high of 2,085 NTD, up 5 NTD, before turning black (falling) to a low of 2,055 NTD, down 25 NTD. Delta Electronics reached 1,840 NTD, up 55 NTD; Foxconn dipped slightly by 0.5 NTD to 207 NTD.
UMC surged to its daily limit of 68.3 NTD. ChipMOS at 73.7 NTD, PANJIT at 108 NTD, Andes Technology at 218.5 NTD, and ASMedia at 1,290 NTD all touched their daily upper limit prices during the session.
ASE Technology Holding announced yesterday that it would spend 14.85 billion NTD to acquire InnoLux's Fab5 plant and related ancillary facilities located in the Tainan Science Park. ASE's stock fell 7.5 NTD intraday to 439 NTD today, while InnoLux rose 0.65 NTD to 28.25 NTD.
Formosa Plastics reached 54.2 NTD intraday, up 3.63%; Nan Ya Plastics rose 3.05% to 91.2 NTD; Formosa Chemicals & Fibre reached 52.5 NTD, up 4.16%; Formosa Petrochemical reached 55.8 NTD, up 2.57%.
Oil, electricity, and natural gas concept stocks including Shin Hai, Taiwan Cogeneration, and National Petroleum all rose during the session. (Editor: Lin Jia-xian) 1150416
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