The Taiwanese currency’s recent stunning rally against the U.S. dollar has highlighted a big risk in an unlikely area: the ...

The typically stable Taiwan ... insurers and exporters, move money out of US assets and back home — a shift driven in part by the weakening dollar. Many didn't hedge against currency swings ...

The rally in the currencies since last week, starting with the Taiwan dollar and spreading outwards to those of China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea ...

Jens Nordvig, founder of macroeconomic research and consulting shop Exante Data, is concerned about the recent strange behavior in U.S. assets and currency markets. This isn’t a short-term phenomenon, ...

Two Taiwanese life insurers are taking opposite approaches to foreign-exchange hedging after a surge in the island’s currency put hundreds of billions of dollars of their US bond holdings under ...

Fubon Life Insurance Co. has “enhanced” hedging as the biggest one-day surge in the currency since the 1980s threatened to erode the US dollar-denominated assets of Taiwanese companies.

Economies like Taiwan, with a historically high exposure to assets denominated in US dollars, have taken a foreign exchange-led hit after the American currency weakened in recent weeks ...

Taiwan’s central bank said upward pressure on the local currency is easing but that it will monitor to ensure inflows are for investments and not speculation, while the insurance regulator said ...

In an emergency press briefing late Monday, Taiwan’s central bank sought to quell speculation about the currency’s surge, saying that the wild, two-day appreciation was partially attributable ...