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TAIEX tumbled 3.4%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-10-16 · market close

TAIEX (Taiwan Weighted) closed at 46,969.87 on 2026-10-15, tumbled 3.4% on the session and is +62.2% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

Taiwan's main stock index, the TAIEX, fell 3.41% in the 15 October 2026 session and closed at 46969.87. It was the sharpest drop among the markets in Strota's peer list that day, and it extended a weak stretch: the index finished the week 5.7% lower.

The fall has not undone the year. The TAIEX was still up 62.17% year to date at the close, and it sat 5.73% below its 52-week high of 49822.55 while standing 77.68% above its 52-week low of 26434.94. It also held above both its 50-day moving average, at 46623.76, and its 200-day average, at 39865.05 — these averages smooth out daily noise to show the underlying trend. The margin over the 50-day line was thin after the session's drop. Over one month the index was up 1.7%, and over three months it was up 2.93%.

Elsewhere on 15 October, the picture was split by region. Greater China was also weak: the Hang Seng lost 1.03% and Shanghai fell 1.59%. India moved the other way, with the Sensex up 2.11% and the Nifty 50 up 1.66%. In Europe the FTSE 100 gained 1.08%, the CAC 40 rose 0.78% and the DAX added 0.33%, although the Euro Stoxx 50 slipped 0.36%. On Wall Street the Dow climbed 1.08%, the S&P 500 rose 0.33% and the Nasdaq edged up 0.08%.

Some regional markets have already traded a session later, on 16 October. In those closes Japan's Nikkei rose 1.72%, South Korea's KOSPI gained 2.21% and Australia's ASX 200 added 1.06%. Those moves came after Taiwan's fall, not alongside it, and the pack carries no TAIEX figure for 16 October.

The news context is thin and partly inconsistent. Three headlines from ad-hoc-news.de all put the drop at 3.4 percent but give different reasons: one ties it to a CPI release, the other two to a sell-off in chip stocks. The pack holds no inflation figure and no list of the stocks that fell, so neither explanation can be checked here. A Taiwan News headline described tech losses pushing the index below 49,000 points on a Tuesday, an earlier session. A Livemint headline from 13 days before had reported the index at a record high with a gain of about 65% for the year.

What the data establishes is a steep one-day fall within a strong year, with the index still above its main trend lines. What it does not establish is a single driver: the headlines point to chips or to inflation data, and the pack cannot confirm either.

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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.