The electronic screen at the Tokyo Stock Exchange was the first to show unusual movement, as Guan Yao's Yaoguang Biotechnology saw its stock price driven down to the limit-down threshold by a sell order of ten,000 lots during the call auction.
Immediately after, crude oil futures on the Intercontinental Exchange in London suddenly surged 27%, triggering a collective plunge in energy stocks—and the new energy sector of Yaoguang Group happened to be ground zero.
Yan Xiao's tactical tablet flashed frantically as Yaoguang-affiliated stocks across seventeen global trading markets were subjected to programmatic dumping simultaneously, with trading volume exceeding 100,000 lots per second.
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