Taiwan stocks fell on Thursday, tracking slides in some other Asian bourses even as the US Federal Reserve provided a positive assessment of the world's largest economy and lifted risk sentiment. China's Shanghai Composite index dipped 0.5 percent, while Japan's Nikkei was off 0.7 percent. Asian stocks however edged up, with MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rising 0.2 percent after briefly climbing to its highest level since August 2015.
As of 0302 GMT, the main TAIEX index fell 0.1 percent, to 9,059.19, after closing at 9,063.39 in the previous session. It was trading in a tight range early on Thursday.