Shanghai, Shenzhen take measures to tame soaring home prices.
Bloomberg News 

The Shanghai Composite Index slipped 0.7 percent, erasing a gain of as much as 1 percent. Poly Real Estate Group Co. and Gemdale Corp. led declines for developers. Shenzhen joined Shanghai in introducing measures late last week to tame soaring real-estate prices, including increasing down-payment requirements. Industrial profits broke a seven-month losing run to climb 4.8 percent in the January-February period.

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