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TAIEX edged down 0.1%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-05 · market close

TAIEX (Taiwan Weighted) closed at 43,360.66 on 2026-08-04, edged down 0.1% on the session and is +49.7% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

Taiwan's benchmark barely moved. The TAIEX (Taiwan Weighted) closed its 4 August session at 43360.66, down 0.06% on the day, which left it effectively where it started. Nothing in the evidence pack identifies a driver for that session; it registers as a pause rather than a decision.

The flat finish sits inside a trend pulling in two directions. At 43360.66 the index was below its 50-day moving average of 44716.86 -- the average closing level of the past fifty sessions -- but well above its 200-day average of 35187.86. It stood 9.18% below its 52-week high of 47741.51 and 84.93% above its 52-week low of 23447.36. Over the past month the index lost 7.31%, yet it gained 4.22% over the past week and 6.36% across three months. For the year to date it was up 49.71%.

The peer markets in the pack do not all share a date, so they have to be separated. Among those whose latest close also fell on 4 August, South Korea's KOSPI rose 1.62%, Australia's ASX 200 added 1.4%, Shanghai gained 0.33% and Japan's Nikkei 0.32%, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.6%. Against that regional spread, Taiwan's near-zero print was the quietest of the group.

The remaining peers carry a later date, 5 August, a different trading day rather than the same session, since Western markets close hours after Asia does. On that day the Dow rose 0.75%, the FTSE 100 added 0.08% and the CAC 40 0.03%, while the S&P 500 slipped 0.14%, the Nasdaq 0.64%, the DAX 0.29% and the Euro Stoxx 50 0.15%. India's Sensex closed 0.19% higher and the Nifty 50 0.04% higher, also on 5 August.

The headlines attached to this index describe a far noisier recent stretch than the session itself. Taiwan News reported five days earlier that the TAIEX had closed up a record 3,186 points, and in other reports that the index had closed below 40,000 after a volatile session, that it had held above 40,000 as losses continued, and that it had fallen over 1,000 points on weak trading activity. finance.biggo.com reported a record rout in which Taiwan stocks plunged over 1,000 points with the electronics sector hit hardest, and, separately, that Taiwanese retail investors cut NT$27.6 billion of margin positions in a single day. Those are published reports rather than confirmed accounts, and none is dated to 4 August.

What the data establishes is narrow: a flat close, a market below its 50-day average but far above its 200-day one, and a large year-to-date advance that a losing month has dented without erasing. What it does not establish is why this session was so quiet.

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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.