The next morning, despite an extra twenty thousand copies of the Wall Street Journal being printed, the shelf was cleared out immediately.
The reason why was because of two names – Future Technology and First B City Bank.
In the next while, the two names dominated the headlines of newspapers, magazines, websites and forums. The former was recently in turbulence due to the anti-trust scandal while the latter's stock price and client number plunged because of the client information leak.
It was not difficult for people aware of the situation to draw connections.
Future Heavy Industries intervened in Saudi's freshwater project, but Matrix was controlled by First B City Bank and B City Scientific. Both companies were subsidiaries of B City Consortium. After considering all the players, the entire event became clear.
