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The Tai-Ex opened down 14-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 16,851 on turnover of 4.3-billion N-T.
The market gained ground on Wednesday after seesawing ahead of the 17,000-point mark, as turnover hit an all-time high.
Select tech heavyweights recouped earlier losses on bargain hunting, and steel and shipping sector stocks also attracted rotational buying, as the market remains bolstered (支撐；提高；改善) by high liquidity.
Support'
The Presidential Office says the arrival of an American delegation in Taipei is an indication (顯示) of widespread support in the United States for Taiwan.
The delegation is being led by former Senator Chris Dodd and includes former deputy secretaries of state Richard Armitage and James Steinberg.
It's is the first visit by an American delegation since U-S President Joe Biden took office in January.
According to the Presidential Office, the two-day visit is reflection of "bipartisan support in the U-S for Taiwan and a robust bilateral relationship."
The Presidential Office says President Tsai Ing-wen is looking forward to discussing various issues of interest to both countries, when she meets with the delegation later today.
Taiwanese Major League Baseball player Yu Zhang is speaking out against racist online messages after receiving threats following Monday night's game against the Chicago White Sox.
The Cleveland Indians first baseman has shared screenshots of a number of Twitter messages he received after the game, which included racist references to "slanty eyes" and the coronavirus pandemic.
Chang responded by taking to Twitter to say "exercise (運用；使用) your freedom of speech in a right way, I accept all comments, positive or negative but DEFINITELY NOT RACIST ONES.
The attacks against Chang appear to have been sparked by a game-ending error he made in the game.
Brazil's Supreme Court has allowed a Senate investigation of President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic to go forward.
Critics, including those calling for or leading the investigation, say Bolsonaro has bungled (弄糟；把…搞砸) Brazil's response to the pandemic by resisting health-driven restrictions on activity, failing to marshal resources for vaccines and stimulating the use of drugs that don't work against the virus.
Bolsonaro and his allies say he's being unfairly blamed for Brazil's surge in COVID-19 deaths, a toll that trails only that of the United States. Brazil's seven-day average death toll hit a new record on Monday.
A panel at the US Centers for Disease Control has said it needs more time to assess the risks of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
US correspondent Ira Spitzer has more
A U.N. report says nearly half the women in 57 developing countries are denied the right to say ``no'' to sex with their partners, to decide whether to use contraception, or to seek health care.
The report released Wednesday by the U.N. Population Fund says the data covers only about one-quarter of the world's countries, over half in Africa.
But it says the findings ``paint an alarming picture of the state of bodily autonomy (身體自主權) for millions of women and girls'' who don't have the power to make choices about their bodies and their futures without fear or violence.
The fund is calling for men to become allies in uprooting gender inequality and discrimination, and transforming the social and economic structures that maintain them.