Markets aside,  how sad is the current situation in Japan ? with 2,500 people killed and thousands more still missing and if that wasn't enough you have a potential nuclear catastrophe unfolding also.

The earthquake was the 5th largest since 1900, massive by any standards but the destructive power of the tsunami it caused is truly incredible. Unrelenting power that surged  to 6 miles inland, in some coastal regions, creating a total wasteland in it's path.

The pictures coming out of Sendai, just one of the stricken areas, are just mind blowing as cars and even ships are tossed aside like matchwood.