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An overview of Taiwan Stock Exchange
- The Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) was established in 1961 and started trading on February 9, 1962. Based in Taipei, it has been the primary stock exchange in Taiwan. The exchange works with a fully automated trading system since 1993, and the intraday continuous trading was implemented on March 23, 2020. The main stock index is the Taiwan Capitalization Weighted Stock Index (TAIEX), often referred to as the Taiwan Weighted.
- The TWSE established the 100% owned subsidiary, Taiwan Index Plus Corporation (TIP), and entrusted a few index business-related functions to TIP.
- We provide the TWSE’s market information services in real-time and with delayed data for all instruments. This includes all asset types such as equity, ETFs, warrants, TDRs, convertible bonds, beneficiary certificates, and more. We also support after-market information related to listed companies on TWSE, such as daily margin transaction summary, foreign and other investors daily trading summary.
Key Facts
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Geographical coverageTaiwan
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HistoryFrom 1967
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Data formatCSVDelimitedGZIPHTMLJSONPDFPythonTextUser InterfaceXMLZip Archive
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Delivery mechanismAPICloudDesktopDigital FilesExcelFTPRSS FeedSFTPWebsite
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Data frequencyContinuous
Features & Benefits
What you get with Taiwan Stock Exchange
- Multi-asset content for trading: stocks, Taiwan depository receipts (TDRs), warrants and CBBCs, real estate investment trusts, fixed income, indices, exchange traded funds (ETFs), beneficiary certificates, exchange traded notes (ETNs).
- Low latency differentiated real-time feeds: standard level 1 data, 5 level market data depth for MBO and MBP, and free of charge level 1 20-minute delayed data.
- Get full access to associated indices, including exchange self-complied index series and co-complied indices with FTSE, Rayliant and Taiwan Index Plus (TIP).
- Timely access to corporate actions and dividend data through either our electronic feeds or desktops platforms.
- Real-time TWSE News for all TWSE listed companies including company announcements, disclosures, and corporate action data from issuers.
- Daily covered margin trading and short sales data available for TWSE securities.
How it works
Accessing the dataset
This dataset can be used by the following products. Talk to us to learn more about different packages and offerings.
Refinitiv Data Platform
The Refinitiv Data Platform delivers a single, consistent data experience to access, distribute and build with Refinitiv and third party data. With cloud-enabled platform capabilities and flexible distribution options, the Refinitiv Data Platform enables faster deployment of applications, greater scale with workflow-critical analytics and a reimagined approach to technology innovation, data distribution and management
- Data Formats:
- JSON
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
- Real time conflated
Eikon
Refinitiv Eikon delivers a powerful combination of information, analytics and exclusive news on financial markets – delivered in an elegant and intuitive desktop and mobile interface.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- JSON
- User Interface
- Python
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Desktop
- Excel
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
Refinitiv Datastream
Welcome to Datastream, our historical financial database with over 40 million individual instruments or indicators across all major asset classes, including 15 million economic indicators. It features 100+ years of data, across 175 countries – the information and tools you need to interpret market trends, economic cycles, and the impact of world events.
Datastream is available via Datastream Advance (EOL Sept 2021) or via Eikon DFO, Eikon R&A, Refinitiv Workspace for Students, Refinitiv Workspace for Academics, Refinitiv Workspace for Wealth. It is expected to be included in many more variants of Refinitiv Workspace during 2021.
Datafeed access is via Datastream Data Loader & Datastream Web Service (which includes Matlab, EViews, Python, R & codebook integration)
Client desktop tools include
DFO (Datastream for Office)
Datastream Charting, including Chartbook
Navigator - Search & Navigation tool
- Data Formats:
- HTML
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- RSS Feed
- API
- Desktop
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
- Intraday snapshot
- Daily
Refinitiv DataScope Select
Refinitiv DataScope Select is a unique platform that offers intuitive, cross-asset and timely access to all of Refinitiv reference and pricing data. Data is delivered by Refinitiv DataScope Select across the following platforms: HTTP/HTTPS, FTP/SFTP and API.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- Zip Archive
- GZIP
- Delimited
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- FTP
- API
- SFTP
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
- Daily
Knowledge Direct
Knowledge Direct API uses industry standard protocols (SOAP and XML) to deliver Refinitiv content for inclusion within internal or external client applications. Using XML request/response, clients can access a comprehensive offering of company and economic Data (fundamentals, estimates, significant developments, etc.), market data, news and quotes and the associated capabilities, including charts, search and timeseries.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- FTP
- API
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
- Intraday snapshot
- Daily
Refinitiv On Demand
Refinitiv On Demand is a delivery channel for Refinitiv content and capabilities enabling clients to customize the information they want to receive on a bespoke basis. Refinitiv On Demand provides a consultative approach to provide efficient, timely custom solutions to help clients make informed decisions. The final reports and analysis are delivered to clients via email.
Note: Refinitiv On Demand is not available as part of a Refinitiv Access deal. Please consult your account manager.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- Text
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- Digital Files
- Service Frequencies:
- On-demand
Workspace
Refinitiv Workspace delivers a powerful combination of information, analytics and exclusive news on financial markets – delivered in an elegant and intuitive desktop and mobile interface.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- JSON
- User Interface
- Python
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Desktop
- Excel
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
Refinitiv DataScope Plus
Refinitiv DataScope Plus delivers bulk end of day pricing and intraday reference and entity data that updates automatically every 15 minutes based to ensure clients’ security masters are current and accurate.
- Data Formats:
- XML
- Zip Archive
- GZIP
- Delimited
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- FTP
- SFTP
- Service Frequencies:
- Daily
Refinitiv Tick History
Tick History provides superior coverage of complete, timely, and global nanosecond tick data. This enables you to download the data you need when you need it, via a single interface.
Coverage goes back as far as 1996 with a standardized naming convention based on RIC symbology that helps lower your data management cost.
Captured from real-time data feeds, Tick History offers global tick data since 1996 across all asset classes, covering both OTC and exchange-traded instruments from 500+ exchanges and third-party contributor data, the majority available two hours after markets close.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- JSON
- GZIP
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- Website
- API
- Cloud
- Service Frequencies:
- Intraday
DETAILED DATA SUPPORT
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RIC SearchDiscover specific data that Refinitiv makes available for each RIC (Reuters Instrument Code).
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Real-Time message specificationsSpecifications for our real-time messages, components and fields.
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Our historical pricing dataExample usage, data and schema for our historical pricing data, which cover 20m+ products.
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