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"Taiwan stocks were down onThursday, tracking weak overseas markets and on caution ahead ofstatements later in the day on earnings and the outlook from keytech firms.     As of 0317 GMT, the main TAIEX index fell 0.5percent, to 9,208.10 points. It closed up 0.4 percent in theprevious session.     The electronics subindex sank 0.6 percent, while thefinancials subindex lost 0.8 percent.     Contract chipmaker TSMC is due to issue itsoutlook for the fourth quarter after the market closes and isalso expected to post a record high quarterly profit for thethird quarter, analysts said.     Meanwhile, camera lens maker Largan is also due toissue its third quarter results after the market closes.     Both companies supply tech components used in the iPhone 7and analysts will be listening for clues about demand strengthfor Apple Inc's newest smartphones from the twosuppliers.     Shares in TSMC and Largan were each trading over 1 percentlower.    The Taiwan dollar softened T$0.086 to T$31.715 perU.S. dollar.   (Reporting by J.R. Wu; Editing by Richard Borsuk)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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