Investing.com – Taiwan equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the , Auto and Glass sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Taiwan, the Taiwan Weighted lost 0.26%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Taiwan Weighted were Jye Tai Precision Industrial Co Ltd (TW:6165), which rose 10.00% or 5.90 points to trade at 64.90 at the close. Ta Jiang Co Ltd (TW:1453) added 9.91% or 0.78 points to end at 8.65 and Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co Ltd (TW:2421) was up 9.90% or 3.60 points to 39.95 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Lead Data Inc (TW:2443), which lost 9.94% or 0.81 points to trade at 7.34 in late trade. Wowprime Corp (TW:2727) declined 8.67% or 18.50 points to end at 195.00 and Yageo Corp (TW:2327) shed 6.61% or 7.50 points to 106.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 527 to 253 and 99 ended unchanged on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 0.20% or 0.09 to $45.55 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 0.19% or 0.09 to hit $47.77 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.25% or 3.21 to trade at $1276.29 a troy ounce.
USD/TWD was up 0.17% to 30.153, while TWD/CNY fell 0.27% to 0.2247.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.45% at 97.39.