DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR: Well, trading was choppy in Asia with one region particularly hard hit.</s>DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR: Michelle Han wraps up the day in Asian markets from our studios in Hong Kong. Hello.</s>MICHELLE HAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thank you, David and Deborah. Well, the three Es today, energy, the euro and earnings, haunted Asian markets Thursday; key bourses end in the red, albeit modestly. Tokyo's Nikkei average hit a fresh 18-month low on jitters of U.S. corporate earnings. A big loser on the Nikkei was Sony, down nearly six percent. Sony's announcement that it will halve its U.S. rollout of its hot PlayStation2 console. But the world's first trillion-dollar bank, Mizuho Holdings made a healthy debut in Tokyo, closing up 6 2/3 percent. Mizuho is formed by the merger of three smaller banks. Hong Kong drifted slightly lower to the close. After the markets closed, Pacific Century CyberWorks posted a $4 1/2 million U.S. net loss for the first half, an improvement from a year ago. Weakness in the tech sector dragged Taiwan stocks down 2 1/3 percent to an 18-month low. And in Indonesia, the corruption case against former President Suharto has been dropped because he was too ill to stand trial; that's according to an independent team of doctors. Suharto was charged with embezzling millions. Some say the decision is a blow to efforts to fight corruption in that country. And that wraps up the business day here in Asia. Back to you in New York.</s>HAFFENREFFER: All right, thank you, Michelle.
Energy, Euro, Earnings Haunt Asian Markets