Investing.com – Taiwan equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the , Financials and Oil, Gas & Electricity sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Taiwan, the Taiwan Weighted lost 0.15%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Taiwan Weighted were Transasia (TW:6702), which rose 10.00% or 0.61 points to trade at 6.71 at the close. Pan Intl Ind (TW:2328) added 9.98% or 2.15 points to end at 23.70 and Cybertan (TW:3062) was up 9.95% or 1.90 points to 21.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Favite (TW:3535), which lost 6.78% or 1.15 points to trade at 15.80 in late trade. Tong-Hwa Synth (TW:1418) declined 5.87% or 0.27 points to end at 4.33 and Jye Tai Precision Industrial Co Ltd (TW:6165) shed 4.78% or 0.70 points to 13.95.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 404 to 333 and 115 ended unchanged on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 1.58% or 0.76 to $47.34 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 1.32% or 0.66 to hit $49.30 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.40% or 5.45 to trade at $1340.65 a troy ounce.
USD/TWD was up 0.31% to 31.802, while TWD/CNY rose 0.05% to 0.2086.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.14% at 94.63.