HONG KONG: Shanghai shares on Monday suffered their biggest one-day decline in more than eight years, leading a broad Asian decline as they plummeted 8.48 percent and defied government efforts to prop up the market.

The dollar remained weak after a disappointing read on the US housing market, as investors await the US Federal Reserve’s next policy meeting, while oil was also under pressure owing to a global supply glut.

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