Taiwan market plunges over 2,000 points at open, falls below 20,000

A wave of stop-loss selling and panic selling hit Taiwan's stock market at its opening on Monday, with the weighted index plunging 2,086 points -- a drop of more than 9.7 percent -- marking the largest intraday point and percentage loss on record.

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