After inspecting Delphi, William returned to Halifax City under Hunk's protection.
Not long after he arrived home and settled down, he received some explosive news.
Lehman Brothers' stock had begun plummeting over the course of several days, plunging from its previous peak trading price of 120 all the way to 50.
The reason was that some people had made moves similar to William's actions a year earlier.
Short selling and dumping.
High-end investors seemed to have sensed the crisis. They sold off the stocks they held at the peak, or borrowed shares from securities companies and sold them.
This move panicked the shareholders, who began dumping their stocks in droves.
Like dominoes, the same thing began happening to other listed companies, directly throwing the stock market into turmoil.
On top of that, the news began reporting extensively that the proliferation of credit had caused a huge number of subprime mortgages to emerge, leaving investment banks unable to recover their loans.
All of this sent the United States, which relied heavily on borrowing, into turmoil.
At that moment, people began thinking of William.
The founder of Umbrella seemed to have known in advance that all this would happen.
They immediately began analyzing William's past moves.
For example, becoming a major shareholder in Apple, Microsoft, and various arms companies.
This led shareholders to conclude that William must have had some deeper reason for doing all this.
The shareholders then began imitating him one after another. Some continued selling off bank stocks, while others bought shares in companies such as Apple and Microsoft.
In just one week, the market value of the companies William held shares in doubled.
As for the idiots on Wall Street, they actually split into two camps.
One camp instantly threw itself into Umbrella's arms, claiming that William's previous