I know this is hard to wrap one's head around, but this is what happens with naked shorts all the time, but never at this scale.

They keep it artificially low through illegal number manipulations, and then occasionally permit it to go back up towards where it is supposed to be.

They buy low, manipulate it to keep it low, and then let the reigns off and sell high once their insider messengers go out to do so.

What you can take away from this is simple -- they are strapped for cash and need to pay their borrowers off ASAP.

The ONLY reason they'd make it this obvious is if they just realized they needed a ton of money really, really quick, or otherwise the 10th story window exit starts looking pretty appealing.