Investing.com – Taiwan equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the , Semiconductor and Electricity sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Taiwan, the Taiwan Weighted declined 0.86%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Taiwan Weighted were Sercomm Corp (TW:5388), which rose 10.00% or 5.50 points to trade at 60.50 at the close. GeoVision Inc (TW:3356) added 9.95% or 2.15 points to end at 23.75 and Vivotek Inc (TW:3454) was up 9.89% or 9.00 points to 100.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Green Energy Technology Inc (TW:3519), which lost 9.96% or 0.84 points to trade at 7.59 in late trade. Radiant Opto-Electronics Corp (TW:6176) declined 7.40% or 6.40 points to end at 80.10 and Asmedia Technology Inc (TW:5269) shed 7.40% or 35.50 points to 444.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 546 to 246 and 108 ended unchanged on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.26% or 0.15 to $57.05 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 0.39% or 0.26 to hit $66.53 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.05% or 0.60 to trade at $1224.70 a troy ounce.
USD/TWD was up 0.07% to 30.933, while TWD/CNY fell 0.04% to 0.2252.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 96.07.