[FTNN News Network] Finance Center / Taipei Report: Taiwan stock market closed last Friday (18th) up 56.3 points at 19395.03 points, gaining 0.29%. The shipping sector was the strongest last Friday, benefiting from a surge in shipping demand due to tariff wars and new U.S. policies imposing port fees on Chinese-built ships. All three major container companies saw gains, with Cheng Wei (2613) hitting its daily limit after a cumulative price increase of 29.10% over the past six trading days. On the same day, it was listed as one of the 11 stocks to watch by the stock exchange, with a buy ratio from KGI Securities at 46.58% and a sell ratio from Yuanta Securities at 45.91%.

Additionally, robot stocks and Chuan (6215) saw a turnover rate of 50.90% over the last six trading days, with 18 April's turnover rate at 18.42%. AI stock AMAX-KY (6933) had a cumulative closing price increase of 27.31% over the last six trading days, with a trading volume on April 18 reaching 7.28 times the average trading volume of the past sixty days, thus being included in the list of attention stocks.

Due to the large proportion of day trading volume, turnover rate, closing price increase, closing price premium, and increased trading volume, other stocks listed as attention stocks include Guanxi Electronics (2466), Huajing (2468), Zhi Yuan (3035), Anchi (3528), You Cheng Precision (4949), Hualing (6916), Vietnam Control-DR (9110), and Minghui-DR (911608).