Shares closed higher yesterday, rebounding from a nearly 2.6 percent decline last week.
The TAIEX finished 15.01 points, or 0.2 percent, higher at 6,058.96. Advancers outnumbered decliners just 430 to 420, while 162 issues ended the day unchanged.
The New Taiwan dollar dropped for a seventh day on speculation international investors unloaded their Taiwanese stocks. The local currency slid 0.5 percent to NT$31.294 against the greenback.
Global investors were net sellers of the country's stocks for a sixth day yesterday, selling a net US$120 million, according to stock exchange figures.
Technology issues led the rebound as investors bargain hunted in selected issues, such as chip designer MediaTek Inc (聯發科技), which rose 5.4 percent to NT$235, and chip packaging and testing company Powertech Technology Inc (力成科技), which closed up 4.1 percent at NT$96.5.
Powertech gained after rival ChipMOS Technologies (Bermuda) Ltd's (南茂科技) shares surged nearly 16 percent in the United States on Friday. The companies are rising on expectations a new memory chip that requires an expensive process to test for defects and to package in protective material will boost their earnings this year.
Chipmaker United Microelectronics (UMC, 聯電) added 0.5 percent to NT$19 after its chairman said the firm has negotiated a settlement with He Jian Technology (Suzhou) Co (和艦科技) for a 15 percent stake valued at US$110 million as compensation for helping to set up the Chinese semiconductor firm.
Digital camera maker Premier Image Technology Corp (普立爾) ended up 6.9 percent at NT$35.55.
Taiwan Transport and Storage Corp (TTS, 台灣通運倉儲) yesterday unveiled its first electric tractor unit — manufactured by Volvo Trucks — in a ceremony in Taipei, and said the unit would soon be used to transport cement produced by Taiwan Cement Corp (TCC, 台灣水泥). Both TTS and TCC belong to TCC International Holdings Ltd (台泥國際集團). With the electric tractor unit, the Taipei-based cement firm would become the first in Taiwan to use electric vehicles to transport construction materials. TTS chairman Koo Kung-yi (辜公怡), Volvo Trucks vice president of sales and marketing Johan Selven, TCC president Roman Cheng (程耀輝) and Taikoo Motors Group
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FUTURE PLANS: Although the electric vehicle market is getting more competitive, Hon Hai would stick to its goal of seizing a 5 percent share globally, Young Liu said Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密), a major iPhone assembler and supplier of artificial intelligence (AI) servers powered by Nvidia Corp’s chips, yesterday said it has introduced a rotating chief executive structure as part of the company’s efforts to cultivate future leaders and to enhance corporate governance. The 50-year-old contract electronics maker reported sizable revenue of NT$6.16 trillion (US$189.67 billion) last year. Hon Hai, also known as Foxconn Technology Group (富士康科技集團), has been under the control of one man almost since its inception. A rotating CEO system is a rarity among Taiwanese businesses. Hon Hai has given leaders of the company’s six