Investing.com – Taiwan stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Paper & Pulp, Trading & Consumer Goods and Iron & Steel sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Taiwan, the Taiwan Weighted added 0.40%.
The best performers of the session on the Taiwan Weighted were Leadtek Research Inc (TW:2465), which rose 9.98% or 2.00 points to trade at 22.05 at the close. Meanwhile, Genius Electronic Optical Co Ltd (TW:3406) added 9.97% or 32.50 points to end at 358.50 and Chia Her Industrial Co Ltd (TW:1449) was up 9.96% or 0.54 points to 5.96 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Rexon Industrial Corp Ltd (TW:1515), which fell 7.74% or 5.20 points to trade at 62.00 at the close. ALi Corp (TW:3041) declined 6.09% or 1.05 points to end at 16.20 and AOPEN Inc (TW:3046) was down 5.72% or 0.34 points to 5.60.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Taiwan Stock Exchange by 434 to 343 and 105 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was up 1.48% or 0.84 to $57.67 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 0.83% or 0.52 to hit $63.09 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.13% or 1.65 to trade at $1283.35 a troy ounce.
USD/TWD was down 0.45% to 29.921, while TWD/CNY fell 0.09% to 0.2210.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.17% at 93.73.