Asian stocks fell amid concern that talks among European leaders to resolve the region’s debt crisis are deadlocked, curbing the earnings outlook for the region’s exporters.

Nikkei 225 9,069.29 -40.71 -0.45%

S&P/ASX 200 4,385.5 -22.79 -0.52%

Shanghai Composite 2,038.33 +11.64 +0.57%

Canon Inc., a Japanese camera maker that gets 30 percent of its sales in Europe, slid 3.9 percent.

Rio Tinto Group, the world’s third-largest mining company, retreated 2.4 percent in Sydney as declining copper prices dragged raw-material shares lower.