Taiwan's TAIEX closed down 667.25 points, or 1.42%, at 46,368.33 on Thursday, Oct. 29.

Shanghai municipal government office issued an action plan to accelerate SME digitalization and high-quality development. The plan will build a digital public service platform integrating data, compute, software and models and offer SMEs free trials or discounts; strengthen city-level intelligent compute scheduling; optimize compute, model (Token) and corpus vouchers; and create a unified application mechanism for compute and model service providers to expand SME coverage. It implements the national SME digitalization pilot, will continue sourcing small-fast-light-accurate digital products to help specialized, high-tech and manufacturing SMEs digitalize production, quality inspection, energy use and supply chains, and directs the integrated-circuit first-round wafer flow policy to tilt toward eligible SME projects.

Samsung Electronics said it will finalize its next-phase shareholder return policy, the final total shareholder return amount and the execution plan for remaining 2026 funds at a board meeting scheduled for late January 2027.