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Taiwan stocks offer hefty yield as global investors still selling

Bloomberg The cash reward for owning Taiwan stocks is larger than almost anywhere else in Asia. Global investors are ditching them anyway. Even with the benchmark Taiex gauge near a record high, managers have pulled about $680 million from Taiwan stock funds this month. The withdrawals come even as corporate dividends top US yields and just as a record amount …

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India aims to prevent shadow-banking crisis

Bloomberg India is attempting to prevent any repeat of last year’s shadow banking crisis after detecting “signs of fragility” in some of the 50 housing finance and other non-bank lenders it is monitoring, according to central bank Governor Shaktikanta Das. The Reserve Bank of India is working closely with the country’s lenders to prevent the collapse of another large systemically …

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China banking system learns lesson

Bloomberg Two months after China shocked investors with the first government seizure of a bank in two decades, market confidence in the nation’s smaller lenders has yet to fully recover. That may be just what the country needs. When it took control of Baoshang Bank Co and imposed losses on some creditors, China’s government upended the long-held assumption that it …

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