Archived Financial Talent

Chapter 557 The wealth of the richest man is shrinking
Country M, Washington.

Bill was sitting on the sofa in the living room of his home, watching his company's stock market with his mobile phone in his hand, and in front of him stood a middle-aged white man.

This middle-aged man is Jimmy, the company successor Bill was looking for.

Jimmy joined Bill's company when he graduated from university, and later became Bill's secretary, and learned a lot from Bill.

Later, when Bill's company wanted to enter the Chinese market, it was Jimmy who led the team to Asia to explore the market.

Facts have proved that Jimmy is a very capable person, and Bill's company quickly developed a large market share in China.

Jimmy also took advantage of this credit to become the vice president of Bill's company and to join the board of directors at the same time.

Later, when Bill retired, he strongly recommended Jimmy to the board of directors to take his place as president of his company.

"Boss, according to our investigation, I suspect that our company's stock price has fallen sharply in a short period of time. It may be that someone maliciously shorted our stock price in the market."

Jimmy, who was standing next to him, saw that Bill's face was not very good, and his eyes were fixed on the screen of the mobile phone.

If the company's stock was just going down normally, Jimmy wouldn't come to disturb Bill's retirement.

But when Jimmy saw that the company's stock price fell by [-]% in a few trading days, he realized that something must have happened in the middle.

The current market capitalization of Bill's company is about 7000 billion US dollars, although due to the impact of the global financial crisis, the stock price has been slowly falling in the past year.

However, it is the first time that the stock has fallen by [-]% in a short period of time like this time.

When Jimmy first realized something was wrong, he quickly sent people out to investigate who was behind the shorting of their company's stock price, but he didn't expect that the people he sent out didn't even find out who was shorting the company's stock price.

After Jimmy received the report from the people below, he immediately realized that the people who shorted their company this time were very powerful, otherwise, his people would not have been unable to find out the other party's information.

When Jimmy was upset, he suddenly received a call from Bill.

On the phone, Bill asked Jimmy to pay attention to the company's situation during this period of time. Someone might take action against the company. If there is any abnormal situation, he should report it to him in time.

As soon as Jimmy heard Bill say this, he knew that the company must have messed with someone, which made his boss so nervous.

Combining the information Bill said and the current situation of the company, Jimmy immediately judged that the sharp drop in the company's stock price this time was probably caused by the person Bill was worried about.

So Jimmy hurriedly drove to Bill's house to report the matter in person. After all, there are some things that are difficult to explain in detail on the phone.

"Your people still have no way to find out who is shorting our stock price in the market?"

Bill took his eyes off the phone screen in his hand, and looked up slightly at Jimmy standing in front of him with his head down.

When Jimmy heard Bill's words, he raised his head slightly to meet Bill's eyes, and then quickly shifted his eyes to other places.

"I'm sorry boss, I have sent many people to investigate this matter, but they have no way to investigate who is shorting us."

"And my people reported to me that this time the short-selling funds against our company in the market are very huge.

According to the gossip my people got from the exchange, the amount of funds shorting our company's stock price in the market has exceeded 100 billion US dollars, and this number is still increasing rapidly. "

When Bill heard Jimmy's words, he put the mobile phone in his hand on the table in front of him, raised his right foot and put it on the left foot, and looked straight ahead.

Jimmy saw Bill's action and knew that it was the habitual action of the other party when thinking about things, so he quickly held his breath, fearing that it would affect Bill's thinking.

At this time, the living room was quiet, except for the occasional sound of dogs barking from outside the yard.

After a few minutes, Bill's eyes came back to life, but also took on a worried look.

"How much liquidity does the company have at present?"

Hearing Bill's question, Jimmy looked up at the ceiling slightly, recalled it, and then looked down at Bill.

"Currently, our company still has US$300 billion in liquidity on its books. In addition to the US$100 billion payment for goods that cannot be used, there are still US$200 billion in funds that can be mobilized."

When Bill heard Jimmy's words, he kept stroking the stubble with his right hand on his chin.

"Since this is the case, immediately after you go back, mobilize funds and start buying our company's stocks in the market."

Jimmy had a troubled look on his face.

"Boss, if you want to mobilize so much of the company's funds to buy stocks, I'm afraid there will be opinions from the board of directors."

Jimmy also knew that although Bill asked him to mobilize the funds, and Bill was the major shareholder of the company, there was no problem in theory.

But Jimmy also knows that in the company's board of directors, the relationship between Bill, the major shareholder, and the second shareholder is not very good.

Although the second shareholder has been kicked out of the company's management by Bill, he generally doesn't ask about the company's management.

But Jimmy knows that if he mobilizes so much money to buy stocks in the market, the company's second shareholder will definitely not be able to sit still.

Bill also knew what Jimmy was worried about. At the same time, when he thought of his partner and second shareholder, he also felt embarrassed in his mind.

Bill thought that when the two started their business together, everyone worked together. At that time, although the company was not as successful as it is now, everyone felt very happy.

However, as the company grew bigger and bigger, the conflict between the two became more and more serious.

Especially after the company went public, the conflict between the two of them broke out completely.

Later, the two sides launched a fierce internal fighting within the company, which consumed a lot of company resources, and finally this internal fighting ended with Bill's victory.

So Bill took full control of the company as the major shareholder, while Alan, the second shareholder, still held 20.00% of the company's shares, but he no longer participated in the company's operations and left the company.

Although Bill did control the company, every time a board meeting was held, Alan and Bill would argue over certain proposals at the meeting.

From Jimmy's point of view, these two shareholders were not convinced by the original failure, so they got angry with Bill and didn't want to make it easier for the other party.

If Jimmy just heard Bill's unilateral request this time and mobilized the company's book funds to buy the company's shares on the stock market, then after the second shareholder of Allen knew about it, he would inevitably quarrel on the board of directors.

Jimmy knew that Bill was not afraid of arguing with Allen at all. After all, Bill held 40.00% of the company's shares.

But Jimmy himself was afraid.

Although Jimmy also has [-]% of the company's stock options and is also the company's president, he knows that he is a part-time worker in the company. A part-time job.

Even though Alan is always overwhelmed by Bill in the company, the other party is always the company's shareholder, and still holds 20.00% of the company's shareholders.

"Don't worry, I will go to Allen to discuss with him. The main task on your side is to help me stabilize the stock price in the shortest possible time."

Jimmy noticed that the expression on Bill's face twitched when he was talking about Allen, and he didn't dare to continue talking on this topic.

"Then I know, I will deal with it according to your wishes."

Jimmy bowed slightly to Bill, then turned and left. When he walked into the yard, he greeted Bill's wife before leaving.

"Honey, what's the matter? Are you all right?"

Just as Bill was thinking, his wife's voice suddenly came from his ear, and he recovered and found that his wife had walked in from the outside and came to him at some point.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of everything."

Bill stretched out his right hand to hold his wife's left hand, looking into each other's eyes with full expression.

Bill's wife saw that Jimmy came to the house in a hurry to meet his husband, and then left with a straight face when he left. She already guessed that something happened to her husband's company.

But Bill never let her participate in the company's affairs, so although she knew that there might be an accident in the company, she could only comfort her husband, but there was nothing she could do to help him.

"By the way, Mei Lin, didn't you say you were going to Hawaii with your child for vacation?"

When Mei Lin heard her husband mention the previous vacation plan, she thought that the other party was going to go on vacation with them, and a happy smile appeared on her face.

"That's right, honey." Merlin's face was filled with joy and joy.

"I think we can take our children to Hawaii for vacation. After all, children always need to go to different places so that they can exercise their ability to adapt to the new environment."

When Bill heard Mei Lin's words, there was a look of shame on his face, and he stood up and covered Mei Lin's hands tightly with his hands.

"sorry."

"There may be something on my side, so I can't accompany you and your child to Hawaii."

"But don't worry, I'll call my assistant later, and I'll let him arrange everything for you. Then you and your child can go to Hawaii for a happy vacation."

When Mei Lin heard Bill's words, she was even more worried.

She knew that her husband was a very family-oriented man, and he would usually not miss family group activities unless something particularly important happened.

But she also knew that her husband was not an ordinary person, and there were tens of thousands of people following him to eat, and the burden on her was very heavy.

"Don't worry, I had a great time playing with my child, you have to take care of yourself here."

Melin kissed Bill lightly on the cheek, then wrapped her arms around Bill.

(End of this chapter)