The Taiwan Stock Exchange Capitalization Weighted Stock Index (), TWSE Capitalization Weighted Stock Index, or TAIEX () is a

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for companies traded on the

Taiwan Stock Exchange The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation (TWSE; ) is a financial institution, located in Taipei 101, in Taipei, Taiwan. The TWSE was established in 1961 and began operating as a stock exchange on 9 February 1962. It is regulated by the Financial S ...

(TWSE). The TAIEX covers all of the listed stocks excluding

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s, full-delivery stocks and newly listed stocks, which are listed for less than one calendar month. It was first published in 1967 by TWSE with 1966 being the base year with a value of 100. The Taiwanese stock market experienced a "bubble economy" from 1986 to 1990. When in 1986 the index was around 1000 points, it reached a peak of over 12,000 points in February 1990 then plummeted to around 2500 points by October 1990.

Annual Returns

The following table shows the annual development of the TAIEX since 1966.

References

External links

TAIEX page on the Taiwan Index Plus

Bloomberg page for TWSE:IND

Reuters page for .TWII
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