It's not often German floor-brokers get their names up in lights, but the unhappy looking gentleman above is becoming a media star in Germany. Every time the German papers write a story about the stock markets tumbling, this chap is rolled out as the obligatory worried broker.

Frankfurter Allgemeinezeitung, the German broadsheet, used him again in a piece last week and had the sense of humour to caption the photograph 'It's him again!'.