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Investors monitor share prices at a brokerage in Taipei March 23, 2004. Taiwan's electoral crisis weighed on markets for a second day on Tuesday, with the stock index closed down 2.94 percent to 6,172.89, less than half the 6.7 percent plunge on Monday, when US$28 billion of investor wealth was erased. [Reuters] |