Investing.com – Taiwan equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Other Electronic, Optoelectronic and Glass sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Taiwan, the Taiwan Weighted rose 0.72%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Taiwan Weighted were Foxsemicon Integrated Technology Inc (TW:3413), which rose 10.00% or 19.00 points to trade at 209.00 at the close. Taiwan Prosperity Chemical Corp (TW:4725) added 9.96% or 2.45 points to end at 27.05 and Taimide Tech Inc (TW:3645) was up 9.96% or 6.70 points to 74.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AOPEN Inc (TW:3046), which lost 10.00% or 1.80 points to trade at 16.20 in late trade. Chunghwa Chemical Synthesis & Biotech Co Ltd (TW:1762) declined 7.06% or 1.90 points to end at 25.00 and Pal Wonn Taiwan Co Ltd (TW:2429) shed 5.56% or 0.65 points to 11.05.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 581 to 203 and 97 ended unchanged on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.24% or 0.14 to $57.22 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 0.25% or 0.16 to hit $63.24 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.27% or 3.40 to trade at $1251.80 a troy ounce.
USD/TWD was down 0.03% to 30.008, while TWD/CNY unchanged 0.00% to 0.2210.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 93.78.