Dumping Lanier’s stock on the Zurich Gemeinschaft Bank would also serve as a firewall against Renraku’s expansion for a while. Already the stock markets were getting the first hints of a shift in the higher ranks of Renraku Computer Systems, and word of the stock transfer was spreading out from Tokyo and London to the exchange in Boston where it all began, just like a virus making its way through the body of the world, spreading information and making changes where it passed. Soon enough the world would know something big had happened to Renraku even if they would never really know the whole story behind it. The corporate spin-doctors would see to that.