The whole of the financial world was in disarray.
Wall Street didn't just blink—it roared. Markets convulsed as if hit by a tectonic shift. Stock tickers bled red, commodity prices swung like wild pendulums, and portfolios worth billions were wiped clean within hours. Foreign investors watched from skyscraper boardrooms with furrowed brows and trembling hands, unsure whether to hold or pull out. Mega-corporations scrambled crisis teams. PR departments drafted statements by the second. Banks whispered in back channels. Insiders wept. Traders raged.
It wasn't just a court ruling. No, what had unfolded in that Manhattan courtroom had detonated like a financial atom bomb.
