The UK is "best placed" to weather the economic storm, said Brown

The Pound tumbles, Lloyds shares fall through the floor and then this.

"I would urge you to sell any sterling you might have. It's finished. I hate to say it, but I would not put any money in the UK," Jim Rogers, co-founder of the Quantum fund with George Soros, told Bloomberg today.

My guess is that Moses is looking forward to the markets closing rather than Obama’s speech.