Tokyo Stocks Begin Week Deeply in the Red
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR: Asian markets we open for trading. Lisa Barron has a look at how they performed live from Hong Kong this morning -- Lisa.</s>LISA BARRON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Creditors for South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor will take up to three days to decide whether to save the debt-laden chipmaker. Last week, worries about whether banks would actually provide a bailout package mounted as several creditors expressed their unwillingness to go along with government proposals. Troubling semiconductor prices, increasing inventory and seemingly endless debt have battered Hynix' share price bringing it down 96 percent over the past 52 weeks. It closed today off more than 3.5 percent in Seoul trading. The broader markers in South Korea held up better than those elsewhere in Asia. Promises of a 10 percent income tax cut by the government helped prevent deeper selling. The KOSPI ended the day down more than half of a percent. Stocks in Tokyo began the week deeply in the red. The Nikkei 225 tumbled nearly 3 percent as it continued its slide towards 18-year lows. Shares of the country's top mobile phone carrier lost nearly 5 1/2 percent after a Morgan Stanley downgrade. NTT DoCoMo also laid out details today of its October 1 launch of the world's first commercial 3G cell phone service. And worries over the state of the Hong Kong economy helped yank down the Hang Seng below 11000 for the first time since 1999. It tumbled more than 1.5 percent on Monday. That is a look at the Asian business day. I'm Lisa Barron in the CNN Asia Center in Hong Kong.</s>MARCHINI: Thanks, Lisa. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com