Tokyo - AFP
Tokyo stocks opened down 0.59 percent on Tuesday after major credit rating agency Standard & Poor\'s warned Germany, France and 13 other eurozone members of possible credit downgrades. The Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange opened down 51.01 points at 8,644.97 after the Dow Jones Industrial Average pulled back from triple-digit advances and closed up 0.65 percent in New York.