Archived Financial Talent

Chapter 427 Taobao Is Listed
On June 6, country M.

Boss Ma of Ali Company returned to the hotel where he was staying after a day of listing roadshow. When he was about to take a fragrant rose bath, there was a sound of the doorbell. Boss Ma had to put on the white shirt he had taken off. , and then slowly walked towards the door with slippers on, and looked through the cat's eyes.

It was Shen Peng standing outside the door with a bottle of red wine in his hand.

"Why did you come here?"

Boss Ma opened the door and let Shen Peng in, and then the two sat in the reception room of the suite.

"Taobao is going to be listed for trading tomorrow. I'm not too happy and I can't sleep, so I'm here to have a drink and chat with you."

If people from the outside world knew that Shen Peng would say such a thing, I don’t know how it would feel. After all, in the eyes of outsiders, Shen Peng is a person who is not good at communication, but from the content of his chat with Boss Ma just now, we can know that The relationship between the two is unusual.

"Taobao will be listed for trading tomorrow, isn't it too early for us to celebrate now?"

Boss Ma stood up and went to the wine cabinet at the back, and took two transparent goblets.

"So I didn't bring champagne this time. We'll open champagne in the evening after Taobao goes public tomorrow."

Shen Peng had already used a corkscrew to uncork the red wine, and then poured it directly into two goblets without using a decanter.

"Try this Romanee-Conti. I bought it for $40. It's the first time I've bought someone so expensive."

When Boss Ma heard Shen Peng's words, he showed a sincere smile on his face. He knew Shen Peng well, and Shen Peng regarded him as a real friend.

Many people say that Shen Peng doesn't like to talk, but after Boss Ma and Shen Peng became good friends, he discovered that Shen Peng is not like what those outsiders said. The reason why Shen Peng doesn't like to talk is that In Boss Ma's view, it was because Shen Peng didn't want to communicate with those people at all, because everyone's worldview was different.

"I see you look worried?"

After Shen Peng and Boss Ma lightly clinked a glass, after finishing the red wine in the glass, he put down the glass and looked at Boss Ma suspiciously, not understanding why he had such a worried expression.

"You're not sitting in my seat, so you don't understand how I feel."

Boss Ma showed a hint of helplessness on his face, raised his head and drank the remaining wine in the glass in one gulp, then put down the glass, looking at Shen Peng with a rosy face.

"I'm under a lot of pressure now. Although Taobao's roadshow here is very good, but these can't guarantee that Taobao's stock price will perform well after listing. The most important point is Lin Feng's side."

Shen Peng frowned after listening to Boss Ma's words, and asked suspiciously: "If you are worried that after Taobao's listing, the stock price trend is not ideal, I can understand that there is no way to explain to your shareholders, but this has something to do with Lin Feng what relationship?"

Boss Ma showed a helpless smile, picked up the wine bottle and poured himself another glass of wine, picked up the wine glass, and looked at the red wine inside through the glass.

"You have also been in contact with Lin Feng, what do you think of Lin Feng?"

Boss Ma put the rim of the cup to his mouth, this time he didn't finish it in one gulp, but took a small sip, and then fixed his eyes on Shen Peng.

"Although I don't have much contact with Lin Feng, I always feel that there is something in him that is not in his age group, but I can't say what it is."

Shen Peng picked up his wine glass and touched Boss Ma.

"It's ambition and scheming."

Boss Ma's words flashed through Shen Peng's mind like lightning, and immediately gave him a feeling of enlightenment. That's right, that's what Lin Feng gave him.

It is normal for young people to have ambitions, but Shen Peng has never seen such ambitions in Lin Feng's age group.

Shen Peng felt that he was already an ambitious person, and that he had done well in this life, but compared with Lin Feng, there was simply a huge difference.

When Shen Peng thought that when Lin Feng was still doing a hard work-study program in university at Lin Feng's age, Lin Feng had already galloped in the world's capital market, and immediately felt a little hot on his face.

"I haven't drank much yet, so why am I a little drunk?" Shen Peng touched his hot cheek and muttered in a low voice.

"What did you say?" Boss Ma who was sitting opposite asked suspiciously.

"Nothing." Shen Peng quickly changed the topic, "Then why are you worried about Lin Feng? Could it be that he can still affect Taobao's listing?"

Boss Ma looked at Shen Peng with a wry smile, "It's because I don't know what Lin Feng's plan is that I'm worried."

Boss Ma didn't know that Lin Feng would do this, but Lin Feng had already prepared a luxurious gift package for him.

"Zou Ming, how is Dangdang.com's stock doing?"

At this moment in Binhai, Lin Feng was standing in front of the French window of the office with his mobile phone on the phone with Zou Ming.

"Boss, everything has been going smoothly. We have already sold half of the shares in Dangdang.com. The remaining shares can be cleared at any time as long as I think about it."

"Very well, then don't liquidate the position, save it until the critical moment, these shares can become a 'fuse' in the stock market, how did I ask you to empty Dangdang.com?"

Zou Ming on the other end of the phone paused for a few seconds, and then slowly said: "Since the stock price of Dangdang.com has been very strong this week, I have already shorted a large number of Dangdang.com stocks at a very small price." At the same time, I also found several intermediary companies here to short the stock price of Dangdang.com through options and other financial derivatives. I believe that we should be the biggest short in the market at present."

After hearing Zou Ming's report, the corners of Lin Feng's mouth rose slightly. It seemed that everything was ready, and the next thing was to wait for the best time to come.

Thursday, November 6.

After a crisp bell was heard from the stock exchange in country M, Taobao Company was officially listed in country M, with an issue price of 29 US dollars and an opening price of [-] US dollars.

Although Taobao's stock price opened low, it was quickly pushed up by a huge amount of buying orders. In just 10 minutes, the stock price has exceeded 200 US dollars, and Taobao's market value has also successfully exceeded [-] billion US dollars.

The surge in the stock price of Taobao began to drive the rise of other Chinese concept stocks listed in country M. Among them, the stock price of Dangdang.com, a popular stock not long ago, directly started the "mad bull" mode from 70 yuan per share, soaring to [-] US dollars per share. .

With the stock prices of Taobao and Dangdang as an example, other Chinese concept stocks also began to skyrocket, and the country M stock market index, which had been falling for more than a year, also began to rise continuously. .

Although the market index continued to break through one important position after another, the entire Wall Street suddenly seemed to be embracing the breath of spring in the frozen world, and everything began to sprout.

The normally deserted investment banking company suddenly began to receive more and more calls from customers asking to buy stocks. Therefore, after more than a year of silence, Wall Street funds began to slowly pour into stocks. market.

This day is destined to be a day of carnival in the capital market. Everyone who walks down the street after get off work is full of joy, and under the golden glow of the setting sun, they become extraordinarily charming.

At the close of the day, Dangdang's closing price was $[-], while Taobao's stock price was $[-].

On the day of Taobao’s listing, its stock price soared by 200%, and its market value exceeded US$450 billion.

On Wednesday, the stock market opened.

Just when many people thought that the stock price of Taobao.com was about to catch up with Dangdang.com, an accident occurred.

A large number of big sell orders for Dangdang.com suddenly poured out in the market. In just half an hour, the stock price of Dangdang.com had fallen below $[-] a share, and the stock price was still falling.

At the same time, Taobao's share price successfully broke through one hundred dollars a share. However, due to the continuous decline in Dangdang.com's stock price, Taobao's stock price did not continue to rise sharply, but started a shock mode.

Suddenly a gossip spread on Wall Street that someone spent $200 billion shorting Dangdang.com in the financial market, and this news was quickly confirmed by many investment banking companies, saying that their company had indeed recently sold a large number of put options on Dangdang.com and various financial derivatives.

Then someone broke out that within a week of the listing of Dangdang.com, the market suddenly increased by about 20.00% five shares.

Many investors who didn't understand the situation called their brokers and asked them to sell all their shares, whether it was Dangdang.com or other companies' stocks, they all cleared their positions.

In the past year, those investors have been made a bit jittery by the subprime mortgage crisis, mainly when there is some bad news in the market, they will immediately draw out funds and withdraw to wait and see.

As a result, the stock price of Dangdang.com has not fallen much, but the stock prices of many other companies have begun to plummet, and the index of the broader market has also begun to plummet.

At the beginning, it was only a stock with a small trading volume that plummeted, followed by those companies with small market capitalization, and finally those companies with a market capitalization of tens of billions of dollars also began to plunge in stock prices. The entire market was constantly selling stocks. No one cares whether it will lose money, as long as the money is taken out first.

There is still an avalanche effect.

This day is destined to be a "Black Wednesday" for the stock market in country M.

Dangdang.com’s stock price began to plunge, and closed at $50.00 per share that day, a drop of [-]%. At the same time, the management of Dangdang.com received a letter from the exchange, hoping that they could accept why the tradable shares on the market suddenly fell. Increase.

Taobao’s share price closed at US$45 that day, and its market value was only US$220 billion.

(End of this chapter)