TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan's weighting in two indexes compiled and managed by MSCI Inc. has been cut after the global index provider completed its semi-annual index review. Taiwan's weighting in the MSCI All-Country Asia ex-Japan Index was also lowered, to 14.11 percent from 14.14 percent, but the country's weighting in the MSCI All-Country World Index was kept at 1.33 percent, MSCI said. THSRC's weighting in the MSCI indexes was 0.24 percent after the stock was included in the MSCI Global Standard Indexes. According to the fund manager, India's weighting in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index was raised by 0.19 percentage points, the highest increase among the emerging markets. Indonesia suffered the steepest drop, with its weighting cut by 0.10 percentage points, followed by South Korea's 0.09 percentage point cut.

Source: The China Post May 16, 2017 09:00 UTC