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Chapter 64 New Scene (3)

Late at night on December 9, after Antonio and Leo arrived in the United States for a week and explained all their work, Contini, escorted by a large number of guards, quietly boarded the battleship Caraciolo, anchored in New York Harbor. Although he officially left tomorrow morning, he did not want to board the ship ashore with a swagger, making people farewell. That was too swagger. He liked to quietly board the ship in such a low-key manner.

But this is also what he thought that the National Guards on duty in the early morning were shocked to see the majestic posture of the President's Guard...

"Jack, wake up, wake up...a ​​convoy is coming."

"What is it?" The opposite side kept dozing.

"What came out of United Bank should be the president's fleet."

"What do I think it is?" Jack wanted to sleep again, but suddenly was shocked, "Didn't it mean that the president will leave tomorrow? The superiors also asked us to do a good job in safety protection."

"Wake up, look at this posture, is it our turn to protect it? See if you don't see it, that's the president's fleet, the only tycoon in the world who travels abroad on a battleship."

Following the direction of the opponent's finger, Jack saw a majestic scene. The Hummer assault off-road vehicle and armored vehicle equipped with 12.7mm heavy machine guns, the road ahead and the left and right guards, and dozens of sideboard motorcycles were also blinded by their eyes. This equipment is better than the National Guard, and I don't know who will protect whom?

"Where is the president?"

"Did you see the eight Mercedes-Benz bulletproof cars in the middle? The president is sitting on one of them, but you don't know which one... This is so majestic, much more majestic than the president."

"Yes..." Until Contini's convoy walked for a long time, the two were still sighing: Poverty restricted their imagination, and life could still be like this.

"Come on, I've sent something, I've sent something..." The lieutenant led the team came over.

"Sir, what are you sending us?"

"The president's convoy gave it to him when he passed by. The president said that we have worked hard on duty and patrol. I will meet you tonight, and each person will have a share! This is your two, and I didn't embezzle it..."

After unpacking the exquisite and heavy packaging, Jack screamed: "Oh my god, so many things!"

Of course, what the president gave was a good thing. There were 7 items in this big gift pack: a pack of Italian macaroni, 2 bags of combined cookies, a box of instant coffee, 2 packs of Italian cigarettes and a matching lighter, a box of tea bags, and a bottle of combined functional drinks. Jack unscrewed the lid of the drink, and the scented aroma came out - it was clearly a fucking brandy! As for why it was called functional drinks, he immediately understood. There is still a prohibition on alcohol now. Is it not illegal to call brandy?

While he was still sighing, the second lieutenant next to him had already slapped the table: "Damn, I was fooled! No wonder Christopher is going to change patrol areas with us. It turned out that we were patrolling in the neighborhood of the United Bank headquarters..."

The two people next to him nodded, feeling full of endless regrets: when they were patrolling outside, they had gifts for the president's guards. They were patrolling in that neighborhood all day, but they were still happy? Facts proved that Christopher was indeed a smart person. He asked him to patrol this neighborhood. He would take his men around the periphery of United Bank every day, guarding the enemy's guards, and never leaving him, in the name of preventing militants from attacking United Bank. He had friends working in United Bank, and knew that the people inside believed in one sentence - as long as they performed hard, the president would not be invisible! The president was different from those stingy tycoons on Wall Street. The president was a generous person!

For such a smart person, the benefits are naturally indispensable. This platoon not only received two such gifts, but each received a Christmas condolence fee of $99 in cash - add some money to buy a good car on the market. This made them extremely motivated, and they were energetic every night, which was in sharp contrast with other places.

For Contini, this is totally a small amount of money, and he doesn't even need the National Guard patrol to protect his own safety, but he has to do this and use subtle signals to tell the American people that you will not suffer any losses following the president.

This kind of loss is also reflected in the investment market. In an interview two days ago, the reporter talked about how to view the future market. Contini said meaningfully: "From the current situation, the stock market sentiment has been too vented. In fact, the US economy is not so bad. Hoover Five has targetedly curbed this panic. Now is an era where confidence is more important than gold. As long as everyone is firm in their confidence, do not believe in rumors, do not spread rumors, and closely unite around the federal government with President Hoover as the core, I believe that the stock market will get better and the US economy will also improve. I dare not say whether it can break through the previous stock market highs, at least there is no problem with a decent rebound."

The reporter asked: "What do you mean by not believing in rumors or spreading rumors?"

"For example, it is rumored that our United Group has a great risk, such as rumor that United Bank can't stand it anymore and will collapse..." Contini spread his hands, "Actually, there is nothing wrong with it? At the beginning, so many people were queuing to withdraw money. Although each person was limited to the amount of $1,000 per person each time for fairness, in the end, all those who wanted to withdraw money realized it. Even some institutions swear that the 4 billion risk exposure was gone. Don't you think this scene is funny? In the past two months, small and medium-sized banks have gone bankrupt every day, but United Bank customers were crowded with them - they were queuing up to withdraw money, now

Queue to deposit! Of course, in a sense, I also want to thank this malicious force. Their spread and rumors have made good advertisements for United Group. Now United Bank’s deposit volume is more than the previous historical high! Shareholders who invest in United Bank were also implicated. There was a panic decline at the beginning. In fact, the bank’s performance this year is very good, especially when investing in stocks, it also made some extra money. The board of directors issued an announcement a few days ago that a special dividend will be paid before December 20 to give back to investors who are determined to hold United Bank shares, so that everyone can have a happy Christmas..."

This trick was proposed by Francisco. After the debt-to-equity conversion was reclaimed, United Group significantly increased its holding ratio in United Bank, from just over 40% before the stock market crash to nearly 65%. The implementation of dividends means that two-thirds of the funds have returned to United Group. However, this dividend boost to market confidence is extraordinary. Other stocks are busy is issuing announcements that the performance of this year may be expected to decrease significantly. However, United Bank not only does not lose but also has a big increase, which has attracted funds to pursue it, and the stock price quickly recovered its conversion price.

On this basis, Wall Street's rating agencies also raised the credit rating of the United Group and re-assigned the A-level. The future prospect is positive, which implies that the situation is good. Then United Bank launched a five-year, $500 million bond with a 5-year, $500 million bond with a face interest of 5.25%, and subscribed 100 million with bank funds. Behind this 100 million US dollars is current deposits, short-term deposits, medium- and long-term deposits, and the cost of deposit acquisition is less than 3%. A 5.25% yield means that more than 2 million yuan a year has been obtained.

Under such a demonstration effect, the other 400 million US dollars were basically sold out - everyone was scared by the stock market, and suddenly turned around and felt that bonds were still reliable, and the 5.25% bond return level was not bad. The most important thing was safety. United Group's security has been tested by time and challenges. Isn't this trustworthy?
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