Record-breaking highs on Wall Street have been replicated in stock markets across Asia, with the Taiwan Stock Exchange today displaying similar positive sentiment, opening and closing on a high, pushing the TAIEX past the 9,700-point mark to create a new 21-month high.
The TAIEX closed up on 44.73 points, or 0.46 percent, on 9710.32 points with the day’s transactions totaling NT$99.23 billion. The positive performance of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing and Hon Hai Precision Industry’s stocks helped to boost morale of bullish investors, and a price correction in financial stocks failed to dampen investors’ spirits. Small and mid-cap stocks continued their outstanding run, causing the TPEx Index to outperform the TAIEX.
Analysts note that although the TAIEX initially surged forward on a wave of bullish sentiment on the first day of trading in the Year of the Rooster, once the TAIEX hit the 9,700 point mark, market impetus appeared to fizzle out.
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Total transactions today dipped below NT$100 billion: a 25 percent reduction on last Friday’s figure. Analysts say this shows that once the index hit a new high, bullish investors were not prepared to buy at high prices. Some fear that large-cap stocks may fail to gain impetus and that the TAIEX may experience short-term volatility.
This article was first published on Feb. 13.
(Liberty Times/CNA, translated by Edward Jones)
美股再創歷史新高，亞股普遍跟進走揚，台股今天也演出開高走高的亮麗走勢，攻上九千七百點大關，再創二十一個月以來新高。
加權股價指數終場上漲四十四點七三點、漲幅百分之零點四六、收在九千七百一十點三二點、成交值新台幣九百九十億二千三百萬元，其中，台積電、鴻海穩住多頭軍心，雖然金融股出現過高回檔的走勢，但無阻多頭攻堅的決心，中小型股表現依舊突出，櫃買指數漲幅優於加權指數。
分析師表示，台股在金雞年開紅盤後一路強攻，多頭氣勢驚人，不過隨著指數來到九千七百點、量能似有跟不上的狀況。
今天成交值下滑到千億元以下，較十日減少約百分之二十五，顯示指數創高後多頭追價意願不足，大型股恐出現量能不濟的狀況，指數短線可能出現震盪走勢。
(中央社/本文已於二月十三日刊登)
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