Taiwan's weighted stock index fell 5,510 points, or 12.2%, over one week and closed at 39,701.64 on the 6th, below the 40,000-point threshold. During the session, it plunged as much as 3,737.67 points, its largest intraday point decline on record, before paring losses; the 1,873.08-point close was the fourth-largest single-day decline in the market's history. The Taiwan dollar briefly weakened to NT$33.04 before heavy exporter selling helped it recover to NT$32.768, up 1.08 jiao, while U.S. chip stocks broadly recovered during intraday trading after a sharp fall the previous day.