| TAIEX | 45,211.83 pts | −1,156.50 pts (−2.49%) | The Nasdaq fell 1.38% and the SOX 1.42% overnight, Intel and Amazon slid after hours, and foreign investors sold a net NT$112.47 billion today. The index fell as much as 1,642 points intraday to a low of 44,726.26 and closed below its 120-day average at its lowest close of October, about 9.3% below the Oct 6 high of 49,822.55. Electronics led the drop: the electronics sub-index fell 2.90% and electronic components 6.46%, while shipping rose 1.93% and financials slipped only 0.16%. Decliners outnumbered gainers 941 to 92 among listed stocks, a very broad sell-off. The index lost 2,728 points (−5.69%) in October. |
| TPEx (OTC) Index | 370.26 pts | −17.11 pts (−4.42%) | Made up mostly of small and mid caps. Down for a second day and nearly twice as much as the main board, it has more than erased the 15.41-point gain of Oct 28. It was the lowest close of October, about 14.4% below the Oct 5 high of 432.48; for the month it lost 46.81 points (−11.22%), a deeper correction than the large caps. |
| Yuanta Taiwan Top 50 ETF (0050) | NT$104.95 | −NT$2.30 (−2.14%) | Taiwan's best-known ETF, tracking the 50 largest listed companies. Foreign investors sold a net 98,000 lots, more than any other security today and up from 43,000 lots the day before; investment trusts bought 2,609 lots. Volume of 227,000 lots was 2.6 times the previous day's 87,000 and the third-heaviest of October. Down for a second day, it closed below its Oct 27 low of NT$106.60 at its lowest of October, about 9.9% below the Oct 6 high of NT$116.50. |
| Turnover | NT$933.85B | | Up about 13% from NT$823.81B the day before, plus NT$198.18B on the OTC market. Heavier volume on a sharp down day shows a high-volume sell-off driven mainly by foreign investors. Some news reports after the close gave NT$877.73B, which differs from TWSE's statistics; this table uses TWSE's figure. |
| TSMC (2330) | NT$2,370 | −NT$45 (−1.86%) | Taiwan's largest company by market value. After the SOX fell 1.42% overnight, foreign investors turned to a net sale of 8,633 lots (just 10 lots the day before), while investment trusts bought 1,855 lots. Volume of 35,000 lots was nearly double the previous day's 18,000, a clear pickup in selling. It fell slightly less than the semiconductor sub-index (−2.24%). Down for a second day, it broke below its NT$2,385–2,440 range of the past two weeks and closed at its lowest of October, about 8.3% below the Oct 6 high of NT$2,585. |
| MediaTek (2454) | NT$3,915 | −NT$130 (−3.21%) | Taiwan's top chip designer. It held its third-quarter earnings call this afternoon, and the stock fell during the session: news reports said investors were worried before the call about the progress of its AI chip (TPU) project and advanced-packaging yields, on top of weakness in electronics and in US chip stocks overnight. Foreign investors sold 2,953 lots and investment trusts bought 673; volume of 13,000 lots was nearly double the day before. At the call, MediaTek reported third-quarter EPS of NT$17.50 (NT$15.28 the previous quarter) and guided fourth-quarter revenue up 25% to 32% from the third quarter, but these results came after the close and are not yet reflected in the price. Down two days in a row for a combined NT$320 (−7.6%), it closed below its Oct 27 low of NT$3,960 at its lowest of October, about 24% below the Oct 5 high of NT$5,165. |
| Hon Hai / Foxconn (2317) | NT$245.50 | −NT$2.50 (−1.01%) | The world's largest electronics contract manufacturer and a major AI server assembler. No company-specific news found; it mainly followed the market. Foreign investors swung from buying 3,342 lots the day before to selling 3,392, while investment trusts bought 1,374. It dipped to NT$240 intraday before recovering, falling less than half as much as the index and less than the computer and peripherals sub-index (−2.10%). All month it has closed between NT$239.50 and NT$256, still with no clear direction. |
| Delta Electronics (2308) | NT$1,335 | −NT$145 (−9.80%) | Power and cooling maker, limit down. A foreign brokerage report said Delta Electronics (Thailand), which Delta owns more than 60% of, booked a large inventory write-down that cut third-quarter gross margin by 2.4 percentage points to 27.5%, raising concerns about full-year profits. Foreign investors sold 11,000 lots and investment trusts 473. Volume of 23,000 lots was the second-heaviest of October. Down about 13.9% in two days, it closed at its lowest of October, about 35% below the Oct 6 high of NT$2,050. |
| Elite Material (2383) | NT$4,675 | −NT$335 (−6.69%) | A leading maker of high-end copper-clad laminate, the base material for circuit boards in AI servers. No company-specific news found; it fell with the circuit-board and electronic components group. The components sub-index fell for a second day, down 6.46% today, and foreign investors also sold 46,000 lots of a PCB-themed ETF (CTBC Taiwan-Japan-Korea PCB). Elite saw foreign selling of 696 lots and investment-trust buying of 311. It gapped down to NT$4,570 at the open and closed below its Oct 27 low of NT$4,750 at its lowest of October, about 24% below the Oct 12 high of NT$6,150. |
| Evergreen Marine (2603) | NT$271.50 | +NT$10.50 (+4.02%) | Taiwan's top container shipper and one of the few heavyweights to rise. No company-specific news found; the buying came from institutions, with foreign investors buying 7,920 lots and investment trusts 1,820, while foreigners also bought 17,000 lots of Yang Ming as money rotated from electronics into shipping. Volume of 23,000 lots was 4.5 times the day before. It closed at the day's high and at its highest close of October, above the Oct 16 close of NT$265.50. |