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翻译公司最新消息：Asian stock markets sank Tuesday, with China's most-watched index plunging 7.7 percent, as investors reacted to the country's latest move to tighten credit and restrain inflation.
Across the region, a combination of negative news left investors staggering.
Wall Street's mixed session overnight was little comfort, particularly following its heavy losses last week. The financial sector added to fears about the U.S. economy, a vital export market, after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. posted an unexpectedly large quarterly loss of $2.8 billion -- its first since 1994.
In China, the government ordered banks to keep more deposits on hand. And oil prices remained near record levels, hovering just above $134 a barrel amid concerns over supplies, growing global demand and other geopolitical issues.
"Investors are concerned about a total meltdown, and they just want to get out of the market," said Alex Tang, head of research at Core Pacific-Yamaichi in Hong Kong.
Chinese, Hong Kong and Australia financial markets were closed Monday for national holidays, so Tuesday was the earliest chance for investors to react to Wall Street's Friday steep sell-off, which had already dragged down other regional markets on Monday.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 257.34 points, or 7.7 percent, to 3,072.33. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was down 4 percent at 23,425 in afternoon trading, while Australia's benchmark index fell 2.8 percent to close at 5,437.5.
Investors in mainland China dumped bank and property shares after a weekend decision by the country's central bank to require banks to keep more deposits on hand. The measure was aimed at easing inflation that is at 12-year highs without unduly slowing the dynamic economic growth needed to create jobs.
It will leave less money available for lending and investment and signaled authorities' intentions to keep credit tight and likely hurting business for financial and real estate companies, among others.
"It's the second time in a month that the reserve-requirement ratio was raised and this deeply worries investors. The market is too weak to resist any bad news," said Wei Daoke, an analyst with Shenyin Wanguo Securities in Shanghai.
Shanghai Pudong Development Bank dropped by the daily 10 percent limit, and property developer China Vanke also tumbled 10 percent.
Airlines like Air China also fell back on worries over high oil prices, which raise operating costs.
Mainland China's pain spread to Hong Kong, where telecom company China Netcom lost more than 8 percent, while its soon-to-be parent, China Unicom, shed more than 7 percent.
In Australia, stocks were weighed down by both Wall Street's losses and concerns about inflation from U.S. Federal Reserve officials. Financial firms took a big hit, with Macquarie Group and Babcock & Brown both down 7.2 percent, and National Australia Bank falling 4.3 percent.
Elsewhere, Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index closed down 1.1 percent at 14,021.17 after dropping 2.1 percent Monday.
Taiwan's benchmark fell 2.5 percent and South Korea's index sank 1.9 percent.
In India, where the market fell 3 percent Monday, the Sensex index was down another 1.8 percent.
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