Stock Market Jitters - City Canyons filled with jumping bankers as Jaweh Shayler arrives
Two Tupolev-95 bombers flew from Blagoveshchensk, on Russia's border with China, to the US naval base at Guam in the West Pacific and buzzed a military base during a 13-hour round trip on Wednesday.
Equity markets saw frantic trading scenes throughout the day, as traders grew increasingly fearful that the decline in the availability of debt may lead to a slowdown in the global economy.
On Wall Street, the sell-off saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumble 387.2 to 13270.7.
The picture was similar in Europe, where the CAC 40 in Paris retreated 2.17pc and the German DAX shedded 2pc and in London the FTSE 100 index fell 1.92pc,
Plainly, Jaweh Shayler has arrived in the nick of time.