Taiwan stock prices ended higher Monday july 4 2011

Indonesia stock info - Taiwan stock prices ended higher Monday july 4 2011 ; Taiwan share prices ended higher Monday on gains in construction and automobile stocks and a strong Wall Street rebound last week, dealers said.

The weighted index rose 34.90 points, or 0.39 percent, to end the day at 8774,72 after moving between 8,772.33 and 8,808.47 on turnover of NT$107.054 billion (US$3.74 billion).

Construction stocks posted the biggest gains of the day, ending up 2.8 percent.

Plastics and chemicals jumped 1.6 percent, while cement stocks, the machinery and electronics sector and the paper and pulp sector each edged 0.3 percent higher.

Textiles had the biggest losses of the day, ending down 1.1 percent. Food shares lost 0.2 percent and the financial sector shed 0.1 percent.

The automobile sector, which was boosted by strong local sales of 32,000 vehicles in June, a monthly increase of more than 30 percent, shot up 3.8 percent on the local bourse.

Yulon Motor Co., China Motor Corp. and Hotai Motor Co. soared 5.56 percent, 5.69 percent and 1.89 percent, respectively.

In the high-tech sector, heavyweight HTC Corp. jumped 4.46 percent to close at NT$1,055 per share on news that the smartphone maker posted record sales in June.

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