The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation (TWSE; ) is a

financial institution Financial institutions, sometimes called banking institutions, are business entities that provide services as intermediaries for different types of financial monetary transactions. Broadly speaking, there are three major types of financial insti ...

, located in

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, in

Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the n ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

. The TWSE was established in 1961 and began operating as a

stock exchange A stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse is an exchange where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock, bonds and other financial instruments. Stock exchanges may also provide facilities for th ...

on 9 February 1962. It is regulated by the Financial Supervisory Commission. As of 31 December 2013, the Taiwan Stock Exchange had 809 listed companies with a combined market capitalization of

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24,519,622 million. The exchange broadcasts before-hour information from 7:40 to 8:40. Then it has normal trading sessions from 09:00 to 13:45 and fixed price post-market sessions from 14:00 to 15:00 on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays declared by the exchange in advance.

Leadership

The current chairman of the TWSE is

Hsu Jan-yau Hsu Jan-yau (; born 8 August 1951) is a Taiwanese politician and current chairman of the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Education Hsu obtained his bachelor's degree in accounting and statistics from National Cheng Kung University in 1974 and master's d ...

. The President is Lee Chi-hsien.

Indices

The

Taiwan Capitalization Weighted Stock Index The Taiwan Capitalization Weighted Stock Index (TAIEX; ) or TWSE Capitalization Weighted Stock Index is a stock market index for companies traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE). TAIEX covers all of the listed stocks excluding preferred stock ...

(TAIEX) is the

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that measures the aggregate performance of listed stocks on TWSE; it is the most prominent and most frequently quoted index of stock performance of Taiwanese public companies.

References

External links

* Financial services companies established in 1961 1961 establishments in Taiwan Economy of Taiwan Stock exchanges in Asia * Finance in Taiwan {{Taiwan-stub

Leadership

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See also

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