Investing.com – Taiwan equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the , Semiconductor and Electronics sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Taiwan, the Taiwan Weighted lost 0.80%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Taiwan Weighted were Enlight Corp (TW:2438), which rose 9.94% or 0.87 points to trade at 9.62 at the close. Gamma Optical (TW:3557) added 9.88% or 0.600 points to end at 6.670 and Arima Communic (TW:8101) was up 9.86% or 0.42 points to 4.68 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Transasia (TW:6702), which lost 9.80% or 0.30 points to trade at 2.76 in late trade. Roo Hsing (TW:4414) declined 7.91% or 1.55 points to end at 18.05 and Msi (TW:2377) shed 5.23% or 4.30 points to 77.90.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 461 to 286 and 122 ended unchanged on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.18% or 0.09 to $50.97 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 0.56% or 0.30 to hit $53.64 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 0.51% or 5.95 to trade at $1175.35 a troy ounce.
USD/TWD was up 0.14% to 31.930, while TWD/CNY rose 0.09% to 0.2167.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.16% at 100.86.