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Macro · Oct 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Taiwan's exports rose 60.9 percent from a year earlier to a record 87.22 billion dollars in September, the Ministry of Finance said…
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Markets · Oct 8, 2026 · 4 min read
All ten Asian indices on our panel closed lower on Thursday, the first session with Shanghai and Shenzhen back from the National…
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Macro · Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Taiwan's consumer price index rose 2.73 percent in September from a year earlier, up from 2.05 percent in August, the Directorate General…
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Markets · Oct 7, 2026 · 4 min read
All eight Asian indices on our panel closed lower on Wednesday, led by Seoul, where the Kospi fell 1.98 percent to 6,803.90…
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Markets · Oct 6, 2026 · 5 min read
The Nikkei 225 rose 1.05 percent to 70,683.98 on Tuesday, its first close above the 70,000 line since 1 July, and every…
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Markets · Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
Taiwan's foreign exchange reserves stood at 600.745 billion dollars at the end of September, down 1.159 billion dollars from the end of…
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Energy & Commodities · Oct 5, 2026 · 3 min read
Taiwan's state refiner CPC Corporation kept pump prices unchanged for 5 to 11 October, its third straight weekly freeze after a rise…
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Markets · Oct 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Every board open on our Monday set closed higher, with Taipei's weighted index jumping 2.55 percent to 49,712.04 and the Nikkei 225…
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Macro · Oct 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Taiwan's manufacturing sector expanded for a 12th consecutive month in September, with the seasonally adjusted purchasing managers' index rising 0.9 points to…
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Markets · Oct 2, 2026 · 6 min read
Hong Kong set the tone for a thinned out Friday board. The Hang Seng returned from Thursday's holiday and fell 2.60 percent…
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Markets · Oct 1, 2026 · 6 min read
The Nikkei 225 rose 3.30 percent, or 2,203.00 points, to 68,956.72 on Thursday, the board's strongest row by a wide margin, with…
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Markets · Sep 30, 2026 · 5 min read
Tokyo led Asia's board higher on the final session of September. The Nikkei 225 closed 1.94 percent higher at 66,753.72 and the…
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Taiwan’s exports rose 60.9 percent from a year earlier to a record 87.22 billion dollars in September, the Ministry of Finance said on 8 October, as shipments to the United States more than doubled. Imports also reached a monthly record, 63.59 billion dollars, up 51.7 percent, and the trade surplus of 23.63 billion dollars was…
All ten Asian indices on our panel closed lower on Thursday, the first session with Shanghai and Shenzhen back from the National Day holiday. Singapore’s Straits Times fell 3.49 percent in the deepest decline, and Seoul’s Kospi lost 2.62 percent in a third straight fall. Shanghai returned 0.79 percent lower and Shenzhen 2.07 percent, measured…
Taiwan’s consumer price index rose 2.73 percent in September from a year earlier, up from 2.05 percent in August, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics said on 7 October. Core inflation, which excludes fruit, vegetables and energy, rose to 2.52 percent from 2.31 percent. Prices rose 0.44 percent from August, or 0.17 percent…
All eight Asian indices on our panel closed lower on Wednesday, led by Seoul, where the Kospi fell 1.98 percent to 6,803.90 for a second straight decline. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 lost 0.92 percent to 70,035.71, holding just above the 70,000 line, and Singapore’s Straits Times fell 1.63 percent. India’s Nifty 50 closed 0.76 percent lower…
The Nikkei 225 rose 1.05 percent to 70,683.98 on Tuesday, its first close above the 70,000 line since 1 July, and every open board on our set but Seoul’s ended higher, with Hong Kong’s Hang Seng up 1.00 percent and India’s Nifty 50 closing 0.98 percent higher at 22,776.10 on the National Stock Exchange’s own…
Taiwan’s foreign exchange reserves stood at 600.745 billion dollars at the end of September, down 1.159 billion dollars from the end of August, the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) said on 5 October. On our calculation, the monthly decline was about 0.19 percent, leaving the total above 600 billion dollars. 3 drivers…
Taiwan’s state refiner CPC Corporation kept pump prices unchanged for 5 to 11 October, its third straight weekly freeze after a rise on 14 September, with 92 unleaded at 31.2 New Taiwan dollars a litre and super diesel at 29.9, as a commodity tax cut and the refiner together absorb 10.1 a litre on gasoline…
Every board open on our Monday set closed higher, with Taipei’s weighted index jumping 2.55 percent to 49,712.04 and the Nikkei 225 rising 2.40 percent to 69,946.86, a close the network’s own report carried to the digit. Tokyo’s broader Topix added 1.33 percent, India’s Nifty 50 rose 0.60 percent on the National Stock Exchange’s own…
Taiwan’s manufacturing sector expanded for a 12th consecutive month in September, with the seasonally adjusted purchasing managers’ index rising 0.9 points to 63.4, its fastest growth since August 2021, the National Development Council said. The non-manufacturing index rose 1.3 points to 56.9, its 19th month of expansion. The rise came with sharper cost pressure: the…
Hong Kong set the tone for a thinned out Friday board. The Hang Seng returned from Thursday’s holiday and fell 2.60 percent to 23,972.29, the region’s deepest fall, measured against Wednesday’s close across a single shut session, while the Kospi rose 0.46 percent to 7,003.74 to finish above the 7,000 line and Sydney led the…