DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR: Tokyo stocks began the week with a loss. Dalton Tanonaka sums up the day Nader from our studios in Hong Kong. Hi, Dalton.</s>DALTON TANONAKA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, David. Different local issues pulled different Asian markets lower to begin this trading week. Tokyo's Nikkei dipping 8/10 of a percent to a 19-month low because of a selloff in the tech sector. Sony lost 4 percent, its report of disappointing earnings still keeping investors unsettled. Game-maker Sega Enterprises tumbled nearly 10 percent after its forecast last Friday of a full-year net loss of $203 million, and that's compared to an earlier estimate of a $13 million profit. But Japan's No. 3 automaker, Nissan, bucked the Nikkei's downtrend, jumping 1 1/3 percent. It was the most heavily traded stock Monday. After the market close, Nissan revised its first-half group profit up to $1 1/2 billion. That's compared to a group net loss of nearly $3 billion for the same period last year. Nissan also raised its net profit forecast for the full year by more than 300 percent. Hong Kong's Hang Seng slipped 2/3 of 1 percent, weighed down by losses in China Mobile. And in South Korea the Kospi skidded 2 percent as a loan scandal and unfair trade allegations involving tech heavyweight Litower Technologies (ph) dampened market sentiment there. The delay of an expected visit by the chairman of American International Group to finalize a planned investment into a subsidiary of Hyundai also unnerving investors. And that is the business and market day in Asia. Back to you, David, in New York.</s>HAFFENREFFER: All right. Thank you very much, Dalton.
Asian Markets Begin Trading Week With Losses