And whatever Knowles said, however tentatively he presented it, neither man, thought Grey, would go to a summit if there wasn’t at least the outline of an agreement already worked out. That wasn’t how politics worked.
Tony Evangelou was thinking exactly the same thing.
As was every trader in every DIV, bank and brokerage around the world.
Evangelou raised an eyebrow questioningly.
‘We still got that cash?’ asked Grey.
Evangelou nodded. Red River had close to a billion in cash from assets they had liquidated in the last hours before the mark-to-market rules were suspended. The money had been destined for their banks to meet margin calls, but with the suspension of the rules, the margin calls had been suspended as well.
Evangelou was still watching him.
Ed Grey looked at the screen for a moment. Then he turned back to Tony Evangelou.
For the first time in weeks, he had a smile on his face. He was about to say something he had thought, in the darkest of the dark days in the past few weeks, that he might never say again.
‘Let’s get in there and buy.’
About the Author
MATTHEW GLASS remains anonymous — though many have speculated that he might be an insider who cannot reveal his true name. The critically acclaimed Ultimatum, his first novel, was published in 2009. Glass is believed to live somewhere in the United Kingdom.
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Trigger Point
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