Soon, the news from the Dream Island News Conference spread worldwide, revealing the discovery of a prodigious oil reserve underground on Dream Island. Dream Island now had a daily extraction capacity of 100 million barrels of oil and was set to sell premium oil at $50 per barrel.
International finance capital, which had already completed arrangements, was about to reap huge profits from the oil futures market when they were suddenly hit with catastrophic news akin to a nuclear bomb explosion. In an instant, prices on the World Oil Futures Market plummeted from a peak of $550 per barrel to $48—a mere tenth of the former price.