TAIWAN ROLLS OUT $15.3B STABILIZATION FUND, TIGHTENS SHORT SELLING FROM NOV 9
🇹🇼 Stabilization fund: Taiwan's National Financial Stabilization Fund has been authorized to intervene in the market, with a ceiling of NT$500 billion (about $15.3 billion), its 10th intervention since the fund was set up in 2000.
📉 Short selling: From today, Nov 9, the Financial Supervisory Commission caps intraday short-sale orders at 3% of a stock's average daily volume over 30 sessions, down from 30%, and raises the minimum short-sale margin to 130% from 90%.
💥 Why: The TAIEX just had its worst week in 25 years, down 12.19%, with Friday's session at one point crashing 9% and TSMC hitting limit-down before closing 4.51% lower.
💬 The last intervention (April 2025 - January 2026) deployed only NT$12.25 billion and still booked a NT$9.93 billion profit. Authorities stepping in is a good sign, but the market only truly steadies when AI demand fears fade, and the Nvidia scandal over the weekend does not help that.
$TSM
🇹🇼 Stabilization fund: Taiwan's National Financial Stabilization Fund has been authorized to intervene in the market, with a ceiling of NT$500 billion (about $15.3 billion), its 10th intervention since the fund was set up in 2000.
📉 Short selling: From today, Nov 9, the Financial Supervisory Commission caps intraday short-sale orders at 3% of a stock's average daily volume over 30 sessions, down from 30%, and raises the minimum short-sale margin to 130% from 90%.
💥 Why: The TAIEX just had its worst week in 25 years, down 12.19%, with Friday's session at one point crashing 9% and TSMC hitting limit-down before closing 4.51% lower.
💬 The last intervention (April 2025 - January 2026) deployed only NT$12.25 billion and still booked a NT$9.93 billion profit. Authorities stepping in is a good sign, but the market only truly steadies when AI demand fears fade, and the Nvidia scandal over the weekend does not help that.
$TSM
