Taiwan stocks jumped 702.85 points Monday as foreign investors swung back to a NT$51.71B net buy, UMC surged 6%, and TSMC filed a record NT$467.58B July revenue on filing-deadline day.
Taiwan’s benchmark faded from an early push past 44,800 to close at 44,225.91 on Friday, down 0.38%, as foreign investors sold a net NT$40.72 billion in the cash market. TSMC edged higher against the tide; UMC fell 4.5%. Monthly revenue filings land Monday.
Taiwan’s TAIEX fell 0.48% to 44,396.70 on Thursday as TSMC and MediaTek gave back part of Wednesday’s 1,250-point surge. Investment trusts bought NT$8.86B while foreigners were marginal net buyers in the cash market; rotation lifted memory and cooling names even as the heavyweights sagged.
Taiwan’s benchmark jumped 1,250.94 points on Wednesday as a record-setting Wall Street session and a 6.5% surge in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index lit up the AI hardware complex. Foreign investors bought NT$90.31 billion of cash equities — the day’s defining number.
Taipei, Aug 4: closing prints conflict — our quote feed shows the TAIEX at 43,360.66 (+0.56%) while media reports put the close at 43,289 (-0.22%) — but the rotation was unambiguous. TSMC fell 2.11% as the semiconductor sub-index rose 1.37%, investment trusts bought NT$25.27B against NT$5.73B of foreign selling, and the TWD softened to 32.41.
Taiwan’s TAIEX closed up 0.62% at 43,386.41 on Monday despite a 2.27% drop in TSMC, as MediaTek’s near-limit-up surge and rotation into memory and passive components carried the tape. Foreign investors sold NT$19.19B; investment trusts bought NT$21.07B.
The TAIEX surged 7.98% to 43,119.75 on Friday, recovering a large slice of a five-session, near-11% plunge. Foreign investors net bought NT$67.55 billion as TSMC, MediaTek and UMC closed at or near their 10% daily limits.
After a two-day, 3,595-point rout, the TAIEX fell to 39,404 and then rallied more than 1,000 points intraday, closing at 39,933.30 (-0.26%) as UMC’s earnings-driven surge offset another NT$48.3B of foreign selling.
Taiwan’s benchmark fell 3.76% to 40,039.18 on Wednesday, its fourth straight decline, as skepticism over AI infrastructure returns hit semiconductors. Foreign investors sold NT$22.25B in cash equities while investment trusts bought against the tide.
Taiwan’s benchmark fell 4.65% to 41,603 on Tuesday as foreign investors dumped a net NT$87.56 billion. MediaTek and UMC fell close to 10%, TSMC lost 2.98%, and the sell-off tracked a region-wide unwind of AI infrastructure trades.