scott wapner joins us with the details. you all got hit the hardest on a percentage basis. >> a tremendous selloff. the biggest for the nasdaq since february 4th. the nasdaq now down about 4% from those mid april highs. and it was a broad based selloff across every major sector of technology. take a look at some of the big cap names, for example. as we run through some of those names that a lot of investors watching your program hold in their portfolios. apple was down pretty big today, microsoft. ebay was one of the hardest hit big cap and widely held technology stocks. but yahoo! and cisco were down, as well. take a look at the chip stocks, too, because the semicondtor index was weak throughout the session today. right from the get-go. and you saw it show up in names like qualcomm and sandisk and especially intel getting hit hard, as well. by just about 3% or so. let's end on a positive note. thought every single stock that traded here was down. nutrisystem, beat on the earnings. the stock got an upgrade and did close the

covering, simon hobbs, my co-host for the hour, bob pisani on the floor the nyse, along with simon, scott wapner from the nasdaq. bertha coombs coming today from the nymex. rick santelli at the chicago mercantile exchange. great to see you all. everything from equities to oil down right now. what would you see is driving the sell-off? we're going to hear from ernst leburn coming up in the program from xerox and she said not only is it the weakness in europe but also that bp spill that continue -- continues to develop. bob pisani, what are you seeing? >> well, clearly it's not so much greece, it's the general idea that the problems with spain, if the contingent idea is real and people believe it, spain's problems are on a much bigger level. that is, the ability to fix them. the costs to fix them are at a much higher level and china down 17% in the last several months. that's been weak here throughout the day and finally just now, maria, we'll be getting votes on that financial reform bill which will be happening in the next couple of hours. are there votes already coming up to basically have a re

bob pisani, scott wapner, rick santelli. mr.rst. >> is my e-mail filled with traders that are bearish, decoupling the idea the u.s. will do better, it is not working today. if you compare it the way the rest of the world is trading we are still down not as much as everybody else. the s&p is down little over 2%. compare that to where we have been ending off the other ones. spain was down 5%. russia down 4%. brazil is down 3%. right now, still trading. germany ended the day down all of these markets have a considerably worse than ours for the last several weeks. clearly we are not decoupling but not dropping nearly as much as the rest of the world. how about the european banks? all down. noticeably. 48%. ale

my co-host scott wapner, and bob pisani, and rick santelli, and joining us from head quarter is cnbc contributor ron insana. thank you, everybody. thanks for joining me on the call. the markets are better shape than yesterday, but the sent lt -- sentiment is turning. what are you hearing, bob pisani? >> well,t