The Taipei Stock Exchange staged a double-up trend today (16). Driven by the strengthening of Asian currencies such as the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan, the exchange rate of the New Taiwan dollar against the US dollar broke through the 30.3 yuan barrier in one fell swoop, and touched 30.248 yuan in the intraday session. Hot money rushed to buy on the eve of the closure Surpassing Taiwan stocks and remitting them in, the NT dollar exchange rate closed at 30.268 yuan, an appreciation of 1.19 cents, a new high in the past five months. The total turnover of the Taipei and Yuantai foreign exchange markets was US$1.4025 billion.
The recent return of foreign capital to the Asian market has weakened the US dollar. The exchange rate of the New Taiwan dollar once rose strongly by 1.39 yuan today, reaching a peak of 30.248 yuan. In the end, the increase was slightly restrained, and it closed at 30.268 yuan, with an appreciation of 1.19 yuan, a new high since late August last year. , the turnover of Taipei foreign exchange market was 952 million US dollars, and the turnover of Yuantai foreign exchange market was 450.5 million US dollars.
The exchange rate of offshore RMB against the US dollar rose above the 6.7 mark in intraday trading today, which was the first time since July last year. The main reason is that the People’s Bank of China continued to issue RMB 779 billion MLF in excess and did not “cut interest rates”, which led to optimism in the market. In addition, the market expects the Bank of Japan to gradually step out of its ultra-loose policy, and the yen continues to rise.
Observe the performance of major currencies against the U.S. dollar today. According to the statistics of the central bank, the U.S. dollar index rose slightly by 0.03%, the Korean won appreciated by 0.49%, the new Taiwan dollar appreciated by 0.39%, the Japanese yen appreciated by 0.31%, the Singapore dollar appreciated by 0.26%, the renminbi depreciated by 0.01%, and the euro It also depreciated by 0.18%.
Taiwan stocks opened higher today, TSMC, MediaTek and other electronic weight stocks played the leading role, financial stocks strengthened, biotechnology stocks also became bullish indicators, but shipping stocks were under heavy selling pressure, and the weighted index rose 102.88 points at the end, closing at 14927.01 points Write a new high for 1 and a half months. The three major corporations are all on the buyer side, buying a total of 21.231 billion yuan, of which foreign capital bought more than 18.7 billion yuan, and a total of 119.5 billion yuan has been bought in 8 days.
