Mumbai fell 7% as investors worried about the financial fall-out from India's nuclear tests.
Meanwhile the City is picking through the financial fall-out of the disaster.
The ensuing financial fall-out put a strain on his relationship, triggering rows and so, when his partner was offered work in Cardiff that October, they broke up.
Tony Hayward, the CEO, insisted that the company still had "considerable firepower" to cover the financial fall-out from the disaster even while acknowledging that it would be "severe" and long-lasting.
Last week, America's home-decorating perfectionist Martha Stewart felt the financial fall-out from a year-long investigation into insider trading and the ensuing storm of public opprobrium and ridicule.
The oil company has tried to strip out factors beyond current executives' control – like the oil price and the financial fall-out from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010 – and focus on factors they can affect.
Charles Cowling, director, at JLT Employee Benefits, said: "The OECD is right to point out that solvency levels for pension schemes are far lower than they ought to be and there are significant risks in our system with the possibility of significant financial fall-out if things go badly wrong.
The British controversy, together with a financial falling-out among the producers, probably accounts for why "Jerry Springer: The Opera" has so far not enjoyed a Broadway transfer.
"The financial fall-out from that won't be nearly as great as it might have been," said Johnston, who is now on the league's board.
"Financials falling out of bed has happened in the past," he said.
