Investing.com – Taiwan equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Transport, Oil, Gas & Electricity and Cement sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Taiwan, the Taiwan Weighted rose 0.14%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Taiwan Weighted were Chaintech Technology Corp (TW:2425), which rose 9.96% or 3.55 points to trade at 39.20 at the close. Bonny Worldwide Ltd (TW:8467) added 9.92% or 3.00 points to end at 33.25 and Thunder Tiger Corp (TW:8033) was up 7.13% or 0.57 points to 8.56 in late trade.
Biggest losers included San Chih Semiconductor Inc Ltd (TW:3579), which lost 9.96% or 0.78 points to trade at 7.05 in late trade. Green Energy Technology Inc (TW:3519) declined 9.96% or 0.55 points to end at 4.97 and Sumagh High Tech Corp (TW:1475) shed 8.84% or 1.10 points to 11.35.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 472 to 311 and 127 ended unchanged on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 0.17% or 0.09 to $51.56 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $60.27 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.01% or 0.15 to trade at $1241.55 a troy ounce.
USD/TWD was down 0.03% to 30.846, while TWD/CNY fell 0.09% to 0.2240.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 96.895.