TAIEX Live Price, Chart & Market Data

The TAIEX (Taiwan Capitalization Weighted Stock Index) is the headline benchmark for the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE), covering essentially all listed common shares — more than 900 constituents. The index is capitalization-weighted with a base value of 100 set in 1966, making it one of Asia's longest continuously published benchmarks. Its defining feature is extreme single-stock concentration: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) alone accounts for roughly 30-35% of index weight, with Hon Hai Precision (Foxconn), MediaTek, Delta Electronics, Quanta Computer and Fubon Financial rounding out the major weights.

For global investors, the TAIEX is the purest large-cap proxy for the world's semiconductor supply chain. TSMC fabricates the majority of the world's leading-edge chips — including virtually all high-end AI accelerators — so the TAIEX responds to AI-capex announcements, US chip-export policy and foundry pricing cycles before most other national benchmarks. The Taipei cash session runs 06:30-11:00 IST, closing before Nifty's morning settles, which makes the TAIEX (alongside the Nikkei and KOSPI) an early tech-sentiment read for Indian IT and electronics-manufacturing names.

The TAIEX was launched in 1967 with a 1966 base value of 100. Its most famous episode is the 1990 bubble and crash: fuelled by trade-surplus liquidity and retail speculation, the index rocketed to 12,682 in February 1990, then collapsed roughly 80% to 2,485 within eight months — one of the deepest drawdowns any major market has recorded. The 1990 high stood for three decades until the index finally broke it in July 2020, powered by the global semiconductor super-cycle.

Major drawdowns: 1990 bubble burst (-80%), 1997 Asian financial crisis (-45%), 2000 dot-com (-66%), 2008 GFC (-58%), 2020 COVID (-30%), 2022 tech derating (-33%). The 2023-2025 AI-infrastructure boom drove the TAIEX to successive all-time highs as TSMC's data-centre chip revenue accelerated, cementing the index's status as the primary listed vehicle for AI-hardware exposure in Asia.

TAIEX constituents trade on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in a single continuous session with no lunch break. In IST:

Three lenses for reading the TAIEX. First, the global semiconductor cycle: TSMC's monthly revenue releases (published around the 10th of each month) and quarterly capex guidance are the single biggest index catalysts; the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) and TSMC's US-listed ADR (TSM) lead the Taipei open almost mechanically. Second, the Taiwan dollar (TWD/USD): TAIEX heavyweights are exporters, so a weak TWD flatters earnings, though large foreign-investor flows often strengthen the currency and lift the index simultaneously during tech up-cycles. Third, cross-strait and US-China chip policy headlines — export-control announcements or geopolitical escalations produce sharp, gap-style moves that regional indices then follow.

Foreign institutional investors hold roughly 40% of TWSE free float, and their daily net-buy / net-sell figure (published every afternoon) is one of Asia's most watched real-time risk-appetite indicators. Persistent foreign selling of TSMC has historically been an early warning for broader emerging-Asia tech weakness — including Indian IT.