Chapter 9 - FINANCIAL ANNIHILATION
At six o'clock the following morning, the financial district of New York opened to absolute chaos.
News anchors on CNBC shouted over live broadcast feeds as Vance Global stock plunged eighty percent in pre-market trading.
Alexander Thorne had flooded the market with fifty million short shares while simultaneously executing his right to call in all corporate loans.
Inside the Vance Global corporate headquarters on Fifth Avenue, board members panicked, slamming phones down as banks froze their credit lines.
Julian's mother, Eleanor Vance, stood in the central office, staring at television screens showing her son's mugshot across every news network.
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"How could this happen in twelve hours?" Eleanor screamed hysterically at her chief financial officer.
"Alexander Thorne called in our primary credit line, Mrs. Vance," the CFO whimpered, clutching a stack of foreclosure notices. "We are bankrupt."
