what are you seeing, christi? michael, stocks across the asia-pacific region are in the red. this, after russian president vladimir putin ordered troops to enter those breakaway pro-moscow regions in eastern ukraine. let s bring up the picture for you and it s portrait across the region in red and if you can hook at the hatest data, we will bring it up on the screen. we have been monitoring the nikkei in japan, as well as other markets. you see, the nikkei is down 1.8% here in hong kong, down 3.34%. seoul kospi down 1.7ers. shanghai composite down 1.4%. more tech-sector restrictions are also weighing on markets here across china. also today, from asia, we are closely monitoring u.s. futures and let s bring up that picture, as well. because we know monday was presidents day holiday in the united states. markets were closed by when they open, it is going to be a down day there. dow features down 1.3%. nasdaq futures down 3.25.
s&p 500 down 2.17%. now according to the white house, they issued a statement on monday saying that u.s. president joe biden plans to impose sanctions those breakaway pro-moscow regions in eastern ukraine. that announcement has been pushing up the price of oil. there is just so much uncertainty out there, in regards to the fate and future of ukraine and beyond. and bottom line, this is not good news for the markets who have been reaching out to a number of strategists and analysts for comment and i want you to listen to this. or rather, look at this. a statement that we got from michael edward, he is a global strategist from rubble bank and he tells cnn this quote, the russia situation is also worryingly linked to concurrent dynamics in asia such as the news china is to shift to a single state-run portal to buy its iron other. the architecture is all crumb nling, he says. such changes are not positive for markets, unquote. then we have this from the head of fixed income research at w