Taiwan Stocks Fall 431 Points This Week; Total Market Cap of Listed Companies Drops to 134.29 Trillion NTD
The Taiwan stock market fell by 431.58 points this week. The Taiwan Stock Exchange reported a total market cap of 134.29 trillion NTD, with the semiconductor sector dominating trading volume.
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(Central News Agency, Reporter Pan Chih-yi, Taipei, 15th) The Taiwan stock market closed at 41172.36 points today, dropping 431.58 points or about 1.04% compared to last week. According to statistics from the Taiwan Stock Exchange, the latest total market capitalization of all listed companies is 134.298373 trillion NTD, a decrease of 1.398816 trillion NTD from last week. In terms of industry indices, the home life sector suffered the largest drop this week at 6.16%, while the optoelectronics sector saw the largest gain, rising by 10.84%.
TWSE statistics show that this week, the index excluding financial stocks fell by 367.76 points (about 0.98%), the index excluding electronic stocks dropped by 386.75 points (about 1.87%), and the index excluding financial and electronic stocks declined by 268.68 points (about 1.88%).
The total trading value of all listed stocks this week was 5.973111 trillion NTD. The top three industries by trading value were semiconductors with 2.512414 trillion NTD (accounting for 42.06% of total listed stock trading value), electronic components with 1.206277 trillion NTD (20.2%), and computer and peripheral equipment with 532.656 billion NTD (8.92%).
The stock turnover rate for this week was 5.01%. The top three industries by turnover rate were optoelectronics (27.77%), electronic components (13.69%), and semiconductors (12.5%).
Cumulatively, over the 85 trading days since the market opened at the beginning of this year, the total trading value of the centralized market was 76.226576 trillion NTD, with a daily average trading value of 896.783 billion NTD. The stock turnover rate was 71.47%, and the daily average stock turnover rate was 0.84%. (Editor: Lin Chia-hsien) 1150515
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TWSE statistics show that this week, the index excluding financial stocks fell by 367.76 points (about 0.98%), the index excluding electronic stocks dropped by 386.75 points (about 1.87%), and the index excluding financial and electronic stocks declined by 268.68 points (about 1.88%).
The total trading value of all listed stocks this week was 5.973111 trillion NTD. The top three industries by trading value were semiconductors with 2.512414 trillion NTD (accounting for 42.06% of total listed stock trading value), electronic components with 1.206277 trillion NTD (20.2%), and computer and peripheral equipment with 532.656 billion NTD (8.92%).
The stock turnover rate for this week was 5.01%. The top three industries by turnover rate were optoelectronics (27.77%), electronic components (13.69%), and semiconductors (12.5%).
Cumulatively, over the 85 trading days since the market opened at the beginning of this year, the total trading value of the centralized market was 76.226576 trillion NTD, with a daily average trading value of 896.783 billion NTD. The stock turnover rate was 71.47%, and the daily average stock turnover rate was 0.84%. (Editor: Lin Chia-hsien) 1150515
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