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TAIEX rose 0.6%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-04 · market close

TAIEX (Taiwan Weighted) closed at 43,360.66 on 2026-08-04, rose 0.6% on the session and is +49.7% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

Taiwan's benchmark TAIEX index closed at 43,119.75 on 31 July 2026, a gain of 7.98% on the session. That is an extraordinary single-day move for a major market index, and it came at the end of a stretch that had gone the other way: the index was still down 1.23% over the past week and down 8.29% over the past month.

The rebound leaves the index in an awkward spot within its own trend. It sat 9.68% below its 52-week high of 47,741.51, yet 84.44% above its 52-week low of 23,378.94 — a range that shows just how violent the past year has been in both directions. The close was below the 50-day moving average of 44,654.64, meaning the shorter-run trend line had not yet been recovered, but comfortably above the 200-day average of 35,015.93, so the longer-run uptrend remained intact. A moving average is simply the average closing level over the past 50 or 200 trading days, used as a rough marker of trend. Over three months the index was up 10.77%, and year to date it was up 48.88%.

Peer markets do not line up on a single date here, because world exchanges close at different hours and the pack records each market's own most recent session. As of 3 August, the S&P 500 was up 1.48%, the Nasdaq up 2.13% and the Dow up 1.32%. As of 4 August, the Nikkei was down 1.81%, the KOSPI down 6.49% and the ASX 200 up 0.98%. On 31 July — the same date as the TAIEX close — the FTSE 100 was down 0.27%, the DAX up 0.07%, the CAC 40 up 0.28%, the Euro Stoxx 50 up 0.21%, the Hang Seng up 0.1%, Shanghai up 0.72%, the Sensex up 0.21% and the Nifty 50 up 0.27%. Nothing in that spread matched Taiwan's magnitude.

The news context is thin and mostly backward-looking. A headline from Taiwan News reported that the TAIEX closed up a record 3,186 points, while other recent headlines from the same publisher described the index closing below 40,000 after a volatile session and then holding above that level as losses continued. A report from finance.biggo.com described a record rout in which Taiwan stocks fell more than 1,000 points, with electronics hit hardest. These are headlines, not verified accounts of the session.

The data shows no single obvious catalyst attached to the 7.98% advance. What the pack does establish is the shape of the move: a very large one-day gain inside a month that was still negative, in a market that has risen far off its 52-week low and still sits below its 50-day average.

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How this article was made: Strota assembled the market data above (the index's price history, same-session peer-market moves and public headlines) and an AI model wrote the narrative strictly from that evidence — it is not permitted to add outside facts or numbers. Every figure comes from the underlying market/public data.