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(16 Jan 2012) Tokyo, Japan 1. Close-up of Tokyo Stock Exchange logo 2. Wide of Tokyo Stock Exchange trading floor 3. Close-up of trading staff 4. Mid of electronic board 5. Close-up of Nikkei 225 index figures 6. Wide of Tokyo Stock Exchange trading floor 7. Close-up of share prices on board 8. Wide of Tokyo Stock Exchange interior with ticker Seoul, South Korea 9. Electronic share price display board at Korea Exchange (KRX) in early trading, showing KOSPI share index 10. Mid of stock price on the stock board 11. Close-up of stock price on the stock board 12. Mid of KOSPI point and Exchange rate on the computer monitor 13. Close-up of KOSPI point on the computer monitor 14. Mid of various rates on the monitor 15. Close-up of stock prices on electronic ticker 16. Close-up of KOSPI point on the stock board 17. Mid of stock board over computer monitors Hong Kong 18. Wide of Hong Kong Stock Exchange trading floor 19. Wide electronic board showing Hang Seng Index 19020.92 down 183.5 points 20. Various of traders 21. Wide of electronic display showing index 22. Wide of trading floor Taipei, Taiwan 23. Wide of stock market monitor screens in window of securities firm, pedestrians passing by 24. Close-up of the index point and the turnover number at the bottom 25. Close-up of the main index number 26. Wide of a monitor inside the office 27. Close-up of the monitor showing the main index number, then switched to the index point number 28. Mid of a stock ticker running inside the office building STORYLINE: Asian stocks sank Monday after a ratings downgrade rattled Europe and crucial talks aimed at nudging Greece toward solvency were mired in disagreement. Japan's Nikkei 225 index slid 1.5 percent to 8,372.67 and South Korea's Kospi index dropped 1.1 percent to 1,855.95. Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 1 percent at 19,021.85. Benchmarks in Singapore, Taiwan, India, Indonesia and mainland China also fell. Benchmark oil prices were slightly higher near 99 US dollars per barrel and the dollar rose against the euro but fell against the yen. Standard & Poor's decision Friday to strip France of its top-notch credit rating and to downgrade eight other nations that use the euro battered investment sentiment, raising fears that a solution to the continent's sovereign debt crisis may be far off. A collapse appeared imminent in negotiations between the Greek government and its private creditors on a bond swap. Without the swap, debt-crippled Greece is unlikely to secure a second financial bailout - which could hurl the country to a bankruptcy that would send economic shock waves around the world. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...