Taiwan stocks stayed flat on Thursday, the last trading day of 2015, as investors remained cautious before the new year holidays, paced by slides in financial firms. As of 1:13 GMT, the main TAIEX index was unchanged at 8,282.79, on track to close the year with an 11 per cent fall, a reversal from an 8.0 per cent gain in 2014. The index ended down 0.2 per cent in the previous session. During 2015, the index rose as much as 7.6 per cent in April to briefly cross the 10,000-mark, only to plummet by 28 per cent to its 2015 low around 7,203 in August. The electronics subindex rose 0.1 per cent on Thursday, while the financials subindex lost 0.3 per cent. The Taiwan dollar firmed T$0.157 to T$32.893 per US dollar, according to Reuters.
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Source: The Financial Express