Archived Financial Talent

Chapter 558 Monopoly investigation, the stock price plummeted

After Bill arranged for his family to go to Hawaii for vacation, he met with several investment bank bosses in Washington.

Originally, Bill thought that after he asked Jimmy to mobilize the company's funds to buy shares in the market, he could temporarily stabilize the decline in the stock price, but he didn't expect that guy Lin Feng would invest a lot of money to keep shorting.

That's right, when Bill heard Jimmy say that there was no way to investigate who was shorting their company's stock price in the market, Bill immediately thought that the decline in the company's stock price must be related to Lin Feng.

Although Bill had no evidence to prove that Lin Feng did this, his intuition was not wrong, and he had only offended such a difficult person as Lin Feng during this time.

In order to mobilize the company's funds to buy stocks, Bill made a special call to his old friend Allen.

Although the decline in the company's stock price is not a good thing for Allen, Bill knows that since the other party left the company, the other party has never cared about the company's interests at all.

Sure enough, Bill guessed right. When Allen heard that Bill planned to use the company's funds to buy stocks, he didn't agree with anything.

Even if Bill said the hype, Alan disagreed.

For no reason, he just wasn't happy with Bill.

After all, Allen is also a young man at this time, even without this share, he is still a proper billionaire.

So he disagreed with Bill's behavior just to make Bill unhappy.

It would be unbelievable for outsiders to know that billionaire Allen is still as vindictive as a child, but the fact is that Allen got into a fight with Bill just like a child.

In the end, Bill, who didn't move, had to bow his head and say good things to Allen, and kept admitting his mistakes, so that Allen reluctantly agreed to Bill's decision.

Bill knew that if he wanted to persuade Allen, he should not talk about benefits, but should let the other party earn face.

Bill knew that in Allen's heart, he had always been brooding over the matter of leaving the company, so the other party had always hated him in his heart.

So Bill also grasped the other party's idea, bowed his head, admitted his mistake, and let Allen win face before temporarily agreeing to this decision.

After solving Allen's side, Bill began to meet secretly with several investment bank bosses.

Bill knew that if the funds on the company's books could not repel Lin Feng, then he could only seek reinforcements from outside.

So Bill found several investment bank bosses, and then Bill started his way of fooling around.

He promised those investment banks to let them continue to buy the shares of their company in the market at this time, no matter how much they bought, after three years, he would buy it back from the other party at three times the cost price.

Moreover, Bill also promised that for the shares purchased in their hands, he must guarantee a dividend of no less than [-]% per annum every year.

Those investment bank bosses were also very happy when they heard Bill's conditions.

After all, when the global economy is in recession, although they have a lot of money in their hands, they don't know what projects to invest in.

After all, if the investment fails, they will also have to bear the responsibility, so they, the investment banks, hold a large number of bonds with high liquidity, low yield and low risk.

But how can bonds with such a low yield satisfy the appetite of these big capitalists, so they are also very anxious, wondering where to find some good investment projects.

Now Bill's suggestion is simply a good condition for them.

Not only will there be [-]% interest every year, but after three years, they can sell it back to Bill at a price three times higher than the cost. Isn't this kind of business just giving them money?
So those investment bankers agreed to Bill's conditions one after another, and immediately began to mobilize funds into the stock market to buy shares in Bill's company after returning.

Needless to say, with the addition of funds from these investment banks, Bill's company's stock price soon stopped its downward trend and began to rise slowly.

While several investment banks were happily buying shares in the stock market, a piece of news suddenly struck their hearts like a bolt from the blue.

The local government once again launched a monopoly investigation on Bill's company, and at the same time made the upper-level voices, intending to split up Bill's company.

The reason is that Mrs. Bill's company is too large. Under the background of the financial crisis, it encountered operational difficulties and closed down, which will inevitably have a huge impact on the country's economy.

When the news came out, the stock price, which was still rising, immediately fell in response.

At the same time, investors who held Bill's shares in the market panicked and sold their shares.

Even Bill didn't think about how the authorities would launch a monopoly investigation on his company.

After all, ever since his company was investigated for monopoly ten years ago, and he was fined a huge sum of money, he has been very careful to avoid all kinds of monopoly matters as much as possible.

In the past ten years, the company has never encountered a monopoly investigation again, and Bill has gradually forgotten about this matter.

But it never occurred to Bill that at this critical moment, when he was fighting with Lin Feng, the authorities would launch a monopoly investigation on his company.

Bill knew that even if his company was not officially dismantled this time, his company's stock price would inevitably plummet, and investors in the market would lose confidence in his stock.

As soon as Bill received the news, he immediately used his connections to find the people on the court side and asked them why they started the investigation at this time, only to know that the decision to investigate came from the White House.

When did the people in the White House take care of the monopoly?

When Bill heard the news, he couldn't understand it.

At this time, an absurd idea came to Bill's mind. The monopoly investigation of their company could not be done by Lin Feng, right?
But the people from the court said that the monopoly investigation on his company came from the White House. If Lin Feng was really behind it, how did the other party make the people in the White House listen to Lin Feng?
Bill never imagined that Lin Feng still has a deep friendship with the first brother in their country, which Bill didn't even dare to think about.

After hearing the news, those investment bankers who believed in Bill immediately stopped buying stocks, and at the same time sold the shares they bought at no cost.

Their investment banks also have their own sources of news.

They already knew that this time they took a very tough attitude towards Bill's antitrust investigation. If Bill didn't pay close attention, then Bill's company would be doomed to be split up.

If Bill's company really wants to split up, they are very skeptical about whether Bill's words to them can be fulfilled.

After all, once the company is split up, Bill will definitely have no way to continue to hold these companies, and who will buy back their shares at that time.

As a result, these investment banks have sold the acquired shares in their hands.

Although they know that if they sell it at this time, they will definitely lose a lot of money, but they can still bear this loss when they think that they may not be able to get back a dime in the future.

So under the continuous selling of stocks by investors and investment banks, coupled with Lin Feng's vigorous short-selling, the stock price of Bill's company has fallen by 50.00% in three days as Lin Feng predicted.

And as the stock price continued to fall, more and more people sold stocks, so a terrible chain reaction happened.

Bill's stock fell so badly that no one dared to come in to buy the bottom, so more people sold the stock. At the same time, some Wall Street short-sellers also focused on this company and began to mobilize funds to short the company.

Bill was sitting in the office with a haggard face, and Jimmy standing next to him also looked at Bill anxiously.

"Boss, hurry up and think of a way."

"The banks are constantly urging us to repay the loan, and those suppliers are also urging us to settle the outstanding payment."

Jimmy never thought that the company would be investigated at this time.

If only those suppliers are paid, the funds on the company's books can still be paid.

But he didn't expect that several banks were also demanding loans from them at this time, but there was so much liquidity in their company's books to repay the loan.

After all, in order to stabilize the company's stock price, he had already invested a lot of money on the company's books into the stock market to buy stocks.

Now that the company's stock price has plummeted, the company's money invested in the stock market has not only failed to make any money, but half of it has disappeared.

Now few people in the stock market enter the market to buy the shares of their companies, but a large number of people are queuing up to sell their shares.

Even if Jimmy wants to sell those shares of the company to raise funds, there is no way to get the funds back in a short time.

Moreover, the company owes more than [-] billion U.S. dollars in loans to the bank. Even if all those shares are sold, it is far from enough to repay the bank loan.

"Don't rush me, I'm trying to find a way now."

Bill was distracted by Jimmy's side, and he raised his head and stared at Jimmy with a roar.

When Jimmy heard Bill's roar, he had no choice but to shut his mouth, and stood quietly by the side, not daring to urge him any more.

"How many assets can our company sell in a short time?"

After a few minutes of silence in the office, Bill broke the silence again.

When Jimmy heard Bill's words, he knew Bill's plan right away, so he thought about it quickly and replied hastily: "If it is to sell assets, there should be about 1000 billion US dollars in assets that can be realized in a short time."

"But now the market has already known the current situation of our company, so if we sell the assets at this time, those buyers are likely to take advantage of the fire and rob them at this time, driving down the prices of those assets."

Bill said with a straight face, "Even if they take advantage of the fire to rob at this time, we have nothing to do with them."

"Well, you go and discuss with those banks, and we will directly take the assets to them to repay the loan."

When Jimmy heard Bill's words, there was a trace of doubt on his face.

"Can they agree?"

A stern look appeared on Bill's face.

"If they don't agree, then wait until our company is split up, then let the court seize our assets and put them up for auction, and then get the money from the auction to repay them."

"Just take what I just said and tell them that they are so smart and will definitely make the best choice for them."

Zou Ming and Alice listened to Lin Feng's arrangement, and after investing 200 billion US dollars in the market to short Bill's company, they began to leave country M.

It was only when they handed over to the people sent by Lin Feng that Zou Ming knew that it was Chen Dajun who was going to replace them.

Zou Ming knew Chen Dajun well.

Zou Ming wondered why Lin Feng asked Chen Dajun to take over their company, but Zou Ming didn't dare to ask Lin Feng.

Although he knew that Chen Dajun was just a soldier and his strength was not bad, but when it came to financial investment, Chen Dajun was really a layman.

But if Lin Feng asked Chen Dajun to take over their work, he would definitely understand the other party's reason.

After Zou Ming, Alice and Chen Dajun handed over their work, they were ready to buy a plane ticket to Europe.

After Chen Dajun finished handing over, he found a safe place, took out his satellite phone and called Lin Feng.

"Boss, I have handed over to Zou Ming, what should we do next?"

Lin Feng's laughter came from the other end of the phone.

"Now that the layout is ready, let's start making moves."

"You find that person at night and ask him to help us. You should know how to talk to him then, right?"

Chen Dajun nodded slightly, and said, "Don't worry, boss, I know how to do it."

The next day, various news media in country M were reporting on the official investigation of Bill Company.

Bill's stock price crash officially kicked off.

What Chen Dajun has to do here is to wait for the stock price of Bill Company to fall to a certain level, and then follow Lin Feng's instructions to let Zou Ming and Alice's people start to close the previous short positions.

As for why Lin Feng didn't take advantage of the sharp drop in the stock price of Bill's company to hold shares in this company, it was because Lin Feng knew that with his unexpected factor, Bill's company might not be able to grow as close as it did in his previous life. A $[-] trillion company.

Lin Feng's purpose this time is to disintegrate Bill's company on the one hand, and treat it as a punishment for Bill's previous confrontation with him.

Another aspect is to make a lot of money by shorting Bill this time.

In fact, Lin Feng still has a small thought, that is, he knows that Bill Company has a profound influence on the Internet industry of country M, and once Bill Company is split up, it will inevitably affect the development of information technology in country M.

In this case, China will be able to catch up with country M's information technology in the next ten years.

(End of this chapter)