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their markets and energy has a lot to do with it. said evenng as carol the nasdaq which has been holding up pretty well is down one third of 1%. the imap.k at much more rate on the screen. only some subsectors in the green and it is financials that at leastn the top spot in terms of percentage declines. there tends to be some coincidence of movement between the two because it concerns because of current concerns. they keep flip-flopping akin forth between the two worst performers. oil prices remain lower. even though there have been supplied constraint in nigeria and more supply coming back online in canada following the wildfires. we have seen oil steadily lower throughout the session. let s look at the damage within the energy stocks. all lower. exxon declared force majeure in nigeria at one of its projects basically suspending production. of its contract because of that and then he can flip over and look at the and i energy stocks and declines we re seeing. her ....
desk where ramy inocencio has more. we are seeing green, but the nasdaq, just in the past few minutes, it has slipped into the red, and it has been falling over the past three or four hours or so. the dow is up one third of a percent. past thee this go 18,000 mark, and we are off of the session high. it on over top see where the s&p actually traveled throughout the course of the day, and this is where it is actually, this is a snapshot of where our last record high for the s&p was back in may of 2015. you can see how close we are to that, just 7/10 of a percent away. for 2130 and some change, so we re going to see where we go today as well as few days if we can hit that. and come to my bloomberg terminal. i also want to show you a snapshot of the s&p sectors, and it has been a pretty much broad rally throughout the course of today. energy has been the biggest leader throughout the course of the day, 2.3% is where it stands right now. telecommunications is the second b ....
i m francine lacqua. it s 9:00 in london. time to check your markets. this is the picture. we are seeing pressure on the index headed for its biggest two-day decline in three weeks. financial companies are down. europe is also down. i wanted to show you the 10-year bond yields at a record low. the same thing for the u.k. gilt yesterday. and then brent crude slightly down today at $51.38. let s get straight to bloomberg first word news. nejra: the ecb does not need new stimulus to reach its inflation goal, according to the governor of the slovenian central bank. at the current juncture, i thed firmly confirm that measures work and that we can only look forward to responding everything what might come on our table in the future. nejra: barack obama has formally endorsed hillary clinton to succeed him as the next u.s. president. met withafter obama bernie sanders. i want those of you who have been with me to be the first know i am with her. i cannot wait to get out there ....
welcome to countdown. lots of talk about this morning. lots of central-bank activity, the bank of japan standing down, as the markets react, and the fed down guiding the pace at least of those. lots of talk about those. amongst all of that, we continue to focus on the brexit risk, the u.k. referendum a week from now, a week in an hour until polls open. let us try to contact relies the market activity we have seen in recent days, as many voices warning on the global stage about the risk of a brexit. president obama, angela merkel, mario draghi, and others. how tense a market as we run up to the vote. i have the stress index, which actually might be of some comfort, depending on how you are position for this. talking about whether there is any kind of systemic risk. pimco saying there is no systemic risk around the brexit question. you see the measure of financial stress in the market, at least on a level, as indicated by this web circle, the oval here. saw atn as high as ....
where are we in the brexit debate just a week to go until the u.k. votes. we are less than half an hour until the european open. futuresls disabling. we saw futures signaling. we saw asian stocks tumble. check out what is happening with features. asia tumbled 3%. that s happening with futures. asia tumbled happening with futures. asia tumbled 3%. all eyes on the eu referendum. the cac 40 showing it to be down 1.5%. it is going to be a down day. here are your asset classes. matt: big, big moves. .ook at the nikkei down 3% 15,434 closing, worst level in a month. you see the yen right now down to 104 104.20 real strength in the yen last week you can find more than seven yen for a dollar. the japanese twenty-year getting close to a negative yield. it is going out and negativity. brent crude falling another 1%. down 48% down 48.50. real pressure on oil as more supply comes online. let s get the first word news with haslinda amin. haslinda: matt, deutsche bank s cha ....