The Financial Supervisory Commission's measures to rescue the market are effective. The number of foreign short-selling securities increased significantly, and the number of short-selling securities decreased by 20,000 simultaneously.

The number of foreign borrowing and short selling decreased significantly yesterday. (File photo)

[Reporter Chen Yongji/Taipei Report] After the Taiwan stock market plummeted last week, the Financial Supervisory Commission implemented five major rescue measures. According to yesterday’s after-hours data, the results have been obvious, including a significant reduction in the number of foreign short-selling securities and a simultaneous reduction of 20,000 securities lending.

Among the market rescue measures announced by the Financial Regulatory Commission on Friday, the limit of intraday securities borrowing and selling orders was significantly reduced from 30% of the average volume of the previous 30 days to 3%, and the minimum securities lending margin ratio for listed securities was raised from 90% to 130%.

According to the latest data from the official "Taiwan Stock Dashboard", foreign short-selling increased by 143,000 yesterday, a single-day increase of 358,000 from last Friday, a significant decrease of 60%. It was also the smallest increase in the number of bonds in the past six trading days. However, the cumulative number of short-selling bonds is still at a high level of 18.368 million.

As for the balance of securities lending in the centralized market, it also dropped from 242,000 last Friday to 222,000 yesterday, a sharp decrease of 20,000 in a single day, a decrease of 8%. The number of active CITIC Taiwan Income ETF (00406A) alone decreased by 29,000.