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Macro · Sep 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Taiwan's overall monitoring indicator flashed a red signal for a 9th consecutive month in August, with its total score unchanged at 41,…
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Markets · Sep 29, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia split on Tuesday with the selling concentrated in Tokyo's broader benchmark: the Topix fell 1.72 percent to 4,041.13 against the Nikkei…
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Markets · Sep 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs has approved 44 billion dollars of TSMC capital for its US subsidiary through 7 approvals since December…
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Markets · Sep 24, 2026 · 6 min read
Tokyo came back from its three day holiday with the Nikkei 225 the board's only riser. The index closed 0.76 percent higher…
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Markets · Sep 23, 2026 · 6 min read
Asia closed split on Wednesday around a thinning holiday map. South Korea's Kospi led the board, 0.90 percent higher at 7,080.92, a…
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Macro · Sep 17, 2026 · 4 min read
Taiwan's central bank left its policy rates unchanged on 17 September and loosened its property rules. The discount rate stays at 2…
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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 the network’s closing report carrying the rally as led by technology and electronics stocks. Seoul’s Kospi followed at 1.95 percent higher, Taipei’s weighted index and Tokyo’s broader Topix added less than one percent…
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 Topix added 1.67 percent to 4,108.65, the day’s two strongest rows, while China’s official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index rose to 50.1 in September from August’s 49.8, back above the 50 line that separates…
Taiwan’s overall monitoring indicator flashed a red signal for a 9th consecutive month in August, with its total score unchanged at 41, the National Development Council said on Tuesday. The run ties the record set from February to October 2021, the state news agency CNA reported, and the trend adjusted leading index rose for a…
Asia split on Tuesday with the selling concentrated in Tokyo’s broader benchmark: the Topix fell 1.72 percent to 4,041.13 against the Nikkei 225’s 0.60 percent decline, Taipei’s Taiex returned from two shut sessions 0.82 percent lower, and the mainland’s two boards and Sydney took the day’s only gains, three rows higher against seven lower. Brent…
Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs has approved 44 billion dollars of TSMC capital for its US subsidiary through 7 approvals since December 2020, the Central News Agency reported on 25 September, citing the ministry’s Department of Investment Review. The total equals 16.6 percent of TSMC’s 265 billion dollar investment plan in Arizona, on our calculation….
Tokyo came back from its three day holiday with the Nikkei 225 the board’s only riser. The index closed 0.76 percent higher at 65,513.99, per the network’s written closing line, on the day the Bank of Japan’s new rates took effect, while the broader Topix slipped 0.39 percent and every other market we track fell,…
Asia closed split on Wednesday around a thinning holiday map. South Korea’s Kospi led the board, 0.90 percent higher at 7,080.92, a fourth straight gain on our boards before the Chuseok break that shuts Seoul on Thursday and Friday, per the exchange’s holiday calendar, and Taiwan’s Taiex added 0.75 percent to 48,157.29, a second straight…
Taiwan’s central bank left its policy rates unchanged on 17 September and loosened its property rules. The discount rate stays at 2 percent, where it has been since 22 March 2024. From 18 September, however, an individual buying a second home can borrow up to 70 percent of its value, up from 60 percent. The…