Taiwan share prices closed with little change Thursday as bargain-hunting interest in financial firms offset losses suffered by traditional industrial stocks, dealers said. The weighted index rose 6.14 points or 0.07 percent to 8,202.54, after moving between 8,154.97 and 8,223.22, on turnover of NT$134.97 billion (US$4.28 billion). The market opened 5.28 points higher on Wall Street's lackluster performance overnight, and selling emerged as investors pocketed recent profits before bargain hunters became active to pick up financial stocks and recoup the losses, dealers said. A total of 1,619 stocks closed up and 2,175 were down, with 313 remaining unchanged The financial sector posted the highest gains, up 0.57 percent. Plastics and chemicals rose 0.18 percent, and machinery and electronics shares added 0.06 percent. The construction sector fell 1.5 percent, cement shares lost 1.11 percent, textiles dropped 0.52 percent, paper and pulp stocks closed down 0.33 percent and foodstuff shares finished 0.05 percent lower. 'As some major markets in the region were closed for the mid-autumn festival holiday, the local bourse was drifting, without any direction, ' Hua Nan Securities analyst Henry Miao said. Miao said lingering concerns over the global economic recovery continued to haunt investors' sentiment. 'The gains posted by the financial sector were simply the result of low valuations, Miao said, 'Rotational buying remained the cause of the upside and such interest could go away very quickly, ' he added. Miao said that while the index closed above the key 8,200-point level Thursday, the market remained technically unstable and a pullback would be possible to drag down the index again. In the financial sector, Taichung Commercial Bank added 4.78 percent to NT$10.95, Chang Hwa Bank gained 3.75 percent to NT$20.75 and Mega Financial rose 1.90 percent to NT$21.50. Among construction stocks, Prince Housing fell 4.57 percent to NT$20.90 and Hung Poo Real Estate shed 3.04 percent to NT$44.60. 