Chapter 273 [The world is chaotic, all for profit]
With Lehman Brothers' announcement of bankruptcy, the financial tsunami triggered by the United States began to sweep the world, and the front-page headlines around the world are now four words - the financial crisis.
Or another major news is the news of various major banks' successive interest rate cuts and market rescue actions.
For a moment, the whole world was covered with shadows by the financial tsunami sweeping from North America, and almost everyone inevitably showed the tragic scene of the Great Depression in the 1930s at this time.
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At the end of September, the Science and Technology Complex.
At this moment, Luo Sheng and An Qingxue supported each other, simulated the offense and defense drill. This was a battle between offense and defense, and a protracted battle. Luo Sheng personally led countless elite soldiers to launch fierce attacks on the opponent's city gate again and again, and he continued to do so. Moreover, he was as powerful as a rainbow. Even if he fought until dawn, he would not stop until the city was broken.
But at this moment, a phone call suddenly came over in the middle of the night, which made Luo Sheng very upset. Why did he keep calling recently?
An annoying turn.
Luo Sheng picked up his phone and wanted to hang up directly, but when he saw the caller ID, he had to temporarily stop the army.
"Shh~"
Luo Sheng made a ban on voice gesture and answered the phone.
The person who called was Zhang Bowen. Lao Zhang had arrived in the United States three days ago. If Bluestar Technology Group wants to start the process of repurchasing stocks, it must require an important person to be in the United States, so as to avoid the impact of jet lag.
After all, the current situation is an hour-long time difference, and a huge change may occur.
As soon as the phone was connected, Zhang Bowen's voice became into Luo Sheng's ears.
"Mr. Luo, is the telephone communication reliable?"
Hearing this, Luo Sheng signaled An Qingxue to help him bring a notebook. However, Luo Sheng operated it for a while, and then replied: "I have encrypted the communication channel, which is safe and reliable. If you have anything to do, please tell me."
Zhang Bowen seemed to hear from this saying that most of the bosses had something to do, so he went straight to the point: "I just received reliable news here that the US House of Representatives rejected the $700 billion rescue plan, causing a sharp decline per share. The Dow Jones Index leaked 777 points, setting the largest drop in history, with a single-day drop of up to 7%, which was also the largest drop since the global stock market crash in 1987. The current market confidence is very fragile. Any movement is a scene of full force. The three major stock indexes continue to sink to the bottom..."
Just a few days after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, North American authorities submitted a bill to Congress to save the financial system, and the Treasury Department would be authorized to purchase up to $700 billion in bad housing mortgage assets.
Americans hope to solve all problems in about two years and achieve economic recovery. They hope to solve them before this problem affects a large area or even comprehensive impact on the real economy, so as to avoid the Great Depression like the tragedy in the 1930s.
Just last week, G7 G7 Finance Ministers held telephone consultations with the presidents of major banks, and the result was that other members of G7 refused to participate in the US financial rescue plan.
The largest savings and loan bank in the United States was then seized and taken over by the North American Federal Deposit Insurance Company, becoming the largest bank to collapse in history in the United States. Then, what Zhang Bowen said just now was that the US House of Representatives rejected a 700 billion yuan rescue plan.
Luo Sheng thought for a moment and replied decisively: "Don't wait any longer. This is the last good opportunity. The 700 billion US dollars... I guess the US should still open the floodgates and let the water go wild. I immediately announced the repurchase plan. The 11.5 billion US dollars will be completed in the last three days, and it is best to get it done in one day."
Zhang Bowen: "I understand."
The U.S. House of Representatives has just rejected this rescue plan, but Luo Sheng knew that this plan would be passed in the end. There is no way, and he must be saved. If it is not saved, it will worsen into the Great Depression like the 1930s. The financial crisis he caused will swallow this bitter fruit with tears in his eyes.
As soon as the communication ended, Luo Sheng threw his phone aside and the battle began again.
He led countless elite soldiers to attack the city again, passing through a line of natural dangers. This place is really a powerful pass. He told the whole story of a man who is at the pass but ten thousand men cannot open it. However, Luo Sheng, who has experienced many battles, was not afraid at all, and even drove straight into the tiger's den alone.
After passing the front line of natural danger, the other party set up an ambush here and used the strategy of water attack with its terrain, intending to catch a turtle in a jar.
At that time, the flood caused a huge flood to vent, and even attacked Luo Sheng on both sides.
After many battles, there are times when Luo Sheng was careless. In the end, hundreds of millions of elite soldiers were wiped out. He knew the ruler and then swam, and the wreck was not overwhelmed.
Luo Sheng was raising his energy and wanted to regroup and fight again, and he would definitely defeat him if he fought.
Failure is not scary, but giving up is shameful.
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It is said that the Eastern Hemisphere is now at night, while the Western Hemisphere is in broad daylight. Zhang Bowen is in New York at this moment. After finishing the telephone communication with Luo Sheng, he is not idle. The repurchase funds have already been divided into multiple accounts. With just one word of his, the transaction can be started immediately.
Half an hour later, under the leadership of Zhang Bowen, he held a temporary press conference on behalf of Bluestar Technology Group in Manhattan, New York, and officially announced that the company would spend $11.5 billion to initiate the repurchase process.
As he announced the news, dozens of trading accounts began to pour into the stock market, harvesting "btc" stocks in large quantities.
Once the news was exposed, the trading code of ****tc" immediately rebounded, and the stocks that had been falling sharply suddenly rose against the trend.
Many people who received the news took action immediately, intending to make a big profit.
When stocks sell, the stock price will fall; otherwise it will rise. This is the basic law of the market.
But this tests the trader's ability. For speculators who make quick money, the blood earnings and blood loss may determine the result in just a matter of seconds.
This is the first time that Bluestar Technology Group has repurchased shares since its listing, and it is a large-scale repurchase. A huge amount of US$11.5 billion was invested in the stock market. The North American authorities were happy to see this happening. It was originally because Luo Sheng was becoming more and more disliked, especially when he left seven or eight billion dollars from the stingy bankers on Wall Street some time ago.
But at this moment, the American suddenly felt that Luo Sheng was still so pleasing to the eye.
Although the amount of more than one billion yuan of funds does not play a decisive role in the financial system that has big problems at present, it must have a role.
In fact, other funds have also been leveraged.
There is nothing else. Many people can't understand Luo Sheng's actions. This time he actually went against the trend and bought at the bottom. The outside world also couldn't understand it. It gave people the feeling of being a mantis armed with a car, but he couldn't resist laughing to the end again and again.
After US$11.5 billion was spent, Bluestar Technology Group successfully repurchased 9.67% of its shares, about 150 million shares. The repurchased shares were not cancelled, but retained to become the company's "treasury stock". At the same time, Zhang Bowen also disclosed at a media conference that this part of the repurchased shares will be used for use including not only the company's employee benefits and incentive plans, or for emergency purposes.
It’s just a response to the outside world. The board of directors has the final say on what to do, and the board of directors has the final say on it.
The after-hours trading price on the same day, Bluestar Technology Group's "btc" stock rose from $68 per share to $81.82, and its market value was pushed up to $118.6 billion.
At its highest time, it reached $83.55 per share.
Obviously, some people make a big profit in stock trading during this period, while others must have lost money due to heavy losses. It is impossible for the market to make money. If you make money, you will definitely lose money.
However, it doesn’t matter to Bluestar Technology Group. No matter how turbulent the financial market is or returns to normal, after Bluestar Technology completes its repurchase plan, the next thing to do is to develop steadily.
As for the troubles here, you don’t need to mix them up or pay attention to them too much.
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Wall Street, Goldman Sachs Group's informal meeting.
In a European-style room, Goldman Sachs' then-head Lloyd Blankfann, group president Gary Cohen and co-COO Jon Winkrid gathered here.
"There is no parameter to analyze, and no mathematical model reference, but this is the fact that he spent $11.5 billion to buy back the stock, and Goldman Sachs followed up and ate 26 million shares." Jon Winkreid shrugged after saying that.
At present, what they are talking about is about Luo Sheng and about the repurchase incident of Blue Star Technology Group.
This is a significant event-driven effect in the international financial market.
Winkreid added with emotion: "This young Chinese IT giant is really unique. The best analysts on Wall Street can't figure it out. A series of actions are so abnormal. No matter how you analyze and study, you can't figure out what he is really thinking in his mind, but without exception he won. This is the most amazing thing."
It is precisely because he cannot see through Luo Sheng and he is always a winner that Goldman Sachs Group also "adventure" to spend $2 billion in this "risk" this time. For this Wall Street Capital Big Group, which is well-known in the industry, the internal think tank lineup is extremely strong, but this investment to follow Luo Sheng seems a bit blind, and it is really a trend of following Luo Sheng.
There is no way. Luo Sheng’s previous record is too strong, and the rewards are even more eye-catching. This time he played so much, it is true that Goldman Sachs is afraid of losing money, but he missed the opportunity.
In fact, it is not just Goldman Sachs at the moment. Most institutions on Wall Street are studying Bluestar Technology Group. The most obvious and intuitive information this round of repurchase plan gives people is that Luo Sheng firmly believes that his company will definitely return to its peak in the future or even create greater glory.
This is easy to understand, otherwise what would he do to spend more than $10 billion to buy back the company's stock? A move to revitalize the market and investors' confidence?
Stop teasing, only fools will believe this.
You can spend other people's money at will, but it is different for your own money. Moreover, Luo Sheng not only spends his own money, but also borrows a large amount of money, so there must be other reasons.
In Wall Street's eyes, Luo Sheng is a smart person who is not inferior to them, and there will definitely be a profit here.
"What I am more interested in is where did the money he once cashed out go?" The head of Goldman Sachs suddenly spoke.
"Our people have been investigating and trying to find out the specific where the funds are going, but they haven't figured it out yet..." Cohen said helplessly. There are many ways for a super rich man to deliberately conceal his legal wealth, and it is difficult to find out the specific whereabouts of the circulation, because most rich people will do this.
Even if you know how to do some things, you can still get them, but no one dares to touch them, because touching them means touching the vested interests of countless people. Who hasn’t done anything bad these days, either big or small, is really in a hurry. Then everyone will hurt each other and reveal each other’s old secrets. This is a very terrifying thing.
So everyone has reached a tacit consensus on some things. Whoever touches them will definitely be the one who died first.
No one wants to be a martyr, this is the inevitable result of human selfishness.
"It's not that he has gained nothing. We were still a low-key person who came to New York last year. Our investigation found that he had contacted several major hedge funds, but he had no idea what he did. Those hedge funds also refused to reveal more information to us." Cohen added.
As soon as these words came out, Lloyd Blancfan was immediately very interested and asked concisely: "Which fund?"
Cohen immediately said: "It was the Paulson hedge fund that made a fortune in this subprime mortgage crisis, and there were more than a dozen other investment funds."
When Luo Sheng came to New York, although he only handed over the money to two funds, he actually met more than a dozen investment funds during his ten-day trip to the United States. This was not a pain in leisure, but a cautious approach.
Everyone looked at each other, and Cohen's answer made the head of Goldman Sachs move, while Jon Winkrid was shocked and suspicious: "God, don't tell me that he even predicted this? I don't believe it! I absolutely don't believe it! I don't believe it even if I beat it to death! Only God can do this! And we are all mortals!"
Chapter completed!