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Una Hajdari

How Taiwan's AI stock boom has ordinary people borrowing to invest

Taiwan is in the grip of a borrowing frenzy — but not for houses or cars. This year, people are taking out loans to buy stocks.

As Taiwan's stock market soared this year, real-estate worker Lucas Chen borrowed NT$5 million (€136,000) to buy tech shares, and within six months he had quadrupled his money.

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