Investing.com – Taiwan equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil, Gas & Electricity, Semiconductor and Electronics sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Taiwan, the Taiwan Weighted gained 1.72%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Taiwan Weighted were D-Link Corp (TW:2332), which rose 9.91% or 1.10 points to trade at 12.20 at the close. Tainergy Tech Co Ltd (TW:4934) added 9.87% or 0.46 points to end at 5.12 and TSEC Corp (TW:6443) was up 9.77% or 0.59 points to 6.63 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Taiwan Styrene Monomer Corp (TW:1310), which lost 7.38% or 1.80 points to trade at 22.60 in late trade. Super Dragon Technology Co Ltd (TW:9955) declined 3.57% or 0.45 points to end at 12.15 and Nan Liu Enterprise Co Ltd (TW:6504) shed 3.42% or 5.50 points to 155.50.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 685 to 121 and 105 ended unchanged on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was down 1.16% or 0.54 to $46.07 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 1.21% or 0.67 to hit $54.62 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.09% or 1.15 to trade at $1270.90 a troy ounce.
USD/TWD was down 0.09% to 30.808, while TWD/CNY fell 0.04% to 0.2238.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.22% at 96.368.