Reborn in Hong Kong as a Tycoon

Chapter 512 Devious stock purchase, guest appearance (two in one)

When the Golden Fleece Company started to sell the Hutchison Whampoa stock in its hands, because Hutchison Whampoa announced that it would sell the Golden Gate Building, the price was much higher than the original purchase price, and the rise in Hutchison Whampoa’s stock price slowed down. , the increase narrowed.

The trading volume of Hutchison Whampoa stock was not low that day, but the stock price neither rose nor fell sharply. It was obvious that someone was selling a large number of stocks, and any experienced analyst could judge this point.

HSBC, which has been following the Hutchison Whampoa stock for a long time, naturally discovered this at the first time, and the manager of the securities department immediately reported it to Shen Congee.

Because it is only the first day of the relationship, so it is difficult to judge, HSBC can only let people continue to pay attention.

However, in the next two trading days, the situation was still the same, and HSBC believed that someone was selling a large number of stocks.

"Have you found out who is selling a lot of stock?"

On the second day, Shen Porridge asked someone to find out who was selling the stocks, which was not difficult for HSBC.

The secretary said: "It was an account opened by an American. When the British family shorted Hutchison Whampoa, the funds were bought at the bottom. We judged that these funds had something to do with Mr. Lin Baicheng. Either these funds belonged to him, but they were just as Americans. It’s just a transfer, or it’s his friends’ funds in the United States.”

"So, is it possible that Lin Baicheng is selling his stocks?"

Shen Porridge asked aloud, it is much easier to keep secrets in this era than decades later, HSBC checked for a while, and gave up continuing to investigate after they could not find out the relationship between those American accounts and Lin Baicheng.

"It can only be said that it is divided into half, but one thing is certain, that is, the nominal owner of those stocks cannot be Lin Baicheng himself, at most, Lin Baicheng can only cooperate with other people, and then each contribute part of the funds."

"Half chance, that's not small."

It is impossible for HSBC to just watch. After all, HSBC itself has doubts. Now that there is one more big seller related to Lin Baicheng, the balance will naturally tilt.

"Let people continue to pay attention, and at the same time help Hutchison Whampoa to find a buyer for the Golden Gate Building."

"Yes, Daban."

Shen Porridge didn't let people sell their stocks immediately. If he really did this, if someone sold a large number of stocks, he would only smash the stock price of Hutchison Whampoa, and the stocks in HSBC's hands would not be sold. A good price, which makes HSBC, which itself does not make much money, even less profit in the end.

After Lin Baicheng asked Vivien Kelly to sell the Hutchison Whampoa stock in the hands of Golden Fleece Company, he didn't pay much attention to it. Anyway, how much was sold every day and at what price, Golden Fleece Company would ask Qin Lan reports, and Qin Lan will talk to him.

Vivien Kelly was not in a hurry to sell all the Hutchison Whampoa stocks in her hand. Doing so would only bring down the stock price of Hutchison Whampoa. Her own professionalism let her know that it was not advisable to do so, and Lin Baicheng did not. would allow her to do that.

What's more, the oil price has only fluctuated and has not yet risen sharply. She still has time to build positions slowly, so she is not in a hurry.

On the second day of the Army Day, Shen Porridge learned that a Japanese company entrusted HSBC to acquire Hutchison Whampoa shares from the market.The point is that the number of Hutchison Whampoa shares that this company wants to acquire is quite a lot, as high as 1200 million shares, which is as much as 3% of the total share capital.

"1200 million shares, which means more than seven billion Hong Kong dollars. What kind of company is this? Does it have so much capital? Do you know what the purpose of this company's acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa stock is purely for investment?"

After listening to the secretary's report, Shen Congee couldn't help asking several questions one after another.

The secretary heard this and said: "Suntory Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company whose main business is whiskey, beer and other alcoholic beverages. The company is not small. It can be ranked among the top three in Japan's industry. Hong Kong dollars. As for the purpose of this company’s purchase of Hutchison Whampoa stock, the other party said that it wants to expand the Hong Kong and Southeast Asian markets, and wants to sell their products through Watsons’ channels.”

"So, the other party wants to buy stocks because of business needs?"

After hearing this, Shen Congee couldn't help but nodded slightly, and then asked, "What kind of conditions does Suntory offer?"

"I bought 61.3 million shares at an average price of HK$1200 yesterday's closing price, but they are willing to pay a 3.5% handling fee, which is about HK$2500 million. If a sufficient number of shares cannot be paid, compensation shall be made in accordance with the double handling fee for the missing part."

"That is to say, if we sell the stocks in our hands to Suntory, it is equivalent to selling 63.45 million shares at an average price of 1200 Hong Kong dollars."

Shen Porridge took the computer and calculated, and concluded that if HSBC directly resold the stocks in hand, it would be sold at an average price of 63.45 Hong Kong dollars, while HSBC's cost price was 50.7 Hong Kong dollars, an increase of only 25%, and a profit of 1200 million shares It's only 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars.

The total number of shares held by HSBC is 2170 million shares. If the 1200 million shares only make a profit of 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars, then unless the remaining 970 million shares are sold at a higher price, the total profit will be less than 3 million Hong Kong dollars. Yu Bai worked hard.

"Continue to contact Suntory and say that the stock of Hutchison Whampoa has always been favored by the market. It is difficult for us to buy the stock at the current average price of the purchase price. It is best to negotiate a premium, or the other party can offer a higher handling fee. .”

"What's more, we need to hurry up to help Hutchison Whampoa find a buyer for the Golden Gate Building, and the buyer's bid should be higher. If the other party has some difficulties in terms of funds, we can relax a little bit on the loan requirements. "

"Regardless of whether we can negotiate with Suntory or not, Hutchison Whampoa's current situation is only good for us."

After some calculations, Shen Porridge gave an order. He was not willing to work hard in vain. HSBC had to make some money anyway.Of course, if there is nothing to be done, or if Lin Baicheng is found to be selling a large number of stocks, the sinking porridge will definitely make HSBC immediately jump out of the sinking ship, and would rather cut the meat to stop the loss.

The secretary responded immediately: "Yes, Taipan."

Of course, it is not a coincidence that Suntory Co., Ltd. just wanted to develop the Xiangjiang and Southeast Asian markets, and then spent a large amount of money to acquire the shares of Hutchison Whampoa. There is no such coincidence in the world.

It is said that after Iwasaki Mineryu listened to Lin Baicheng's advice, he decided to believe in Lin Baicheng for the first time. When he returned home, he asked people to analyze the acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa stock. He believed that even if there was a loss in the current stock price acquisition, the loss There won't be too many.Of course, this is not an unknown accidental factor. If there is a huge disadvantage lurking that the outside world cannot know, then there is no way, and no one can know.

After the analysts at the head office judged that the problem was not serious, Iwasaki Mineryu immediately asked Suntory Co., Ltd. for help through his relationship, and asked Suntory Co., Ltd. to entrust HSBC to acquire the shares of Hutchison Whampoa. Suntory Co., Ltd. paid only a few staff members. However, the advantage is that you can get the favor of Mitsubishi Bank. This is a guaranteed business, and Suntory has no reason to refuse.

The reason why Mineryu Iwasaki bought stocks in a roundabout way was because he didn't want HSBC to know that he was leading the acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa's stocks. He and Lin Baicheng did not hide their friendly relationship, and he was afraid that HSBC would think too much about it and raise the selling price .

While Iwasaki Mineryu was trying to acquire Hutchison Whampoa shares from HSBC, Lin Baicheng went to Asia TV for the past two days.

The second Miss Asia Contest organized by Asia Television has already started its preliminary round. This year's final is scheduled for August 8th, one day earlier than last year's August 17th, but it's also Friday.

Because of the current free relationship, Lin Baicheng also went to watch it during the preliminary stage, but he did not serve as a judge, and he also visited the crew of other TV dramas at the same time.

At present, Asia Television is shooting the TV series "The Change of the Silkworm". "The Change of the Silkworm" can be said to be the first long-form martial arts TV series in the history of Xiangjiang TV that is adapted from a script to a novel.

Nowadays, whether it is Asia TV or TVB, the TV series shot by the two TV stations are filmed and broadcast. Once a TV series is suppressed by the other party, they will immediately switch to another TV series to compete.As for the TV series that were replaced, those with good ratings can still be rescheduled, and those with slightly lower ratings will be cut off and stopped shooting.

"The Change of Silkworms" has now filmed six episodes and will start broadcasting on prime time on Friday night this week.If the ratings of the first few episodes are good, then they must have been broadcast in the prime time;

And after Lin Baicheng saw that Asian TV was filming "The Change of the Silkworm", he was not very busy recently, so he talked to the directors Mai Kuoxiong and Xiao Sheng, adding a role for him, and he planned to make a guest appearance .

Lin Baicheng directly stated the request. His cameo role is a mysterious Jianghu hero. He is only known in the Jianghu.He didn't plan to make his debut in filming, he just appeared in a few scenes for fun.

Faced with this request, Mai Kuoxiong and the others certainly had no reason to refuse, and they could not refuse, and immediately asked the seven screenwriters of the screenwriting team to add roles.That's right, there are a total of seven screenwriters for this TV series. It is this spirit of excellence that has made Asia TV's ratings of TV series overwhelm TVB in recent years.

In fact, Lin Baicheng still knows something about the TV series "The Change of Silkworms", not only because of the high ratings of this TV series, but also because during the filming of this TV series, the protagonist Xu Shaoqiang ran away halfway. As for Li's TV station, they had no choice but to change the protagonist.

In "The Change of the Silkworm", which is currently being filmed, the leading actor is still Xu Shaoqiang, and Lin Baicheng didn't say anything after knowing about it.The reason is very simple. The current Asia TV station is not the former Li TV station. The TV station has stricter contract management for actors. If Xu Shaoqiang dares to run away, he will be sued by Asia TV station and compensate all the losses.

The most important thing is that even if Xu Shaoqiang really runs away, the big deal is to let the protagonist Yun Feiyang practice the silkworm magic skill and break out of the cocoon to become another person like the original version. It's nothing more than a different protagonist.

Lin Baicheng only made a cameo appearance in "The Change of the Silkworm", so he proposed to make a cameo appearance on August 8st. The crew revised the script that night and decided on the role, and then he joined the crew on August 1nd to start filming. The shoot was done after many hours.

It has to be said that as a pure rookie, Lin Baicheng delayed a lot of filming time of the crew, and took more than an hour to shoot just a few scenes.But who made him the big boss of the TV station, even if the crew revolved around him, they dare not complain, unless they don't want to mess around anymore.

"President Huang, you are here."

When Lin Baicheng took off his makeup and changed clothes from the dressing room after filming, he found that Huang Xizhao had also come here.Huang Xizhao, who is now the vice president of Asia Star Media Group, has been promoted from manager to president.

"Boss Lin, I'll come over and take a look."

Huang Xizhao said that it was rare for Lin Baicheng to come to Asia TV, so he must have a lot of greetings.

"Ah."

Lin Baicheng nodded, and he went to say hello to the director, screenwriter, and actors of the crew, and then left with Huang Xizhao.He knew that if he stayed here all the time, everyone in the crew would be uncomfortable, so it's better not to disturb the crew when they are filming the TV series.

On the way, Lin Baicheng said to Huang Xizhao: ""The Change of the Silkworm" reminded me of something, you can find some time to chat with Zha Sheng, and buy all the TV series adaptation rights of his martial arts novels, the longer the authorization period, the better .”

The ratings of Jin Yong's dramas are very high, as long as the shooting is not bad, especially the famous ones, the ratings will only be higher.If you don't buy it now, what will happen to the cheap wireless TV station.

"Okay, I'll do it myself."

Huang Xizhao responded. He is the vice president of Asia Star Media Group. He personally approached Jin Yong to discuss the right to adapt martial arts novels, so he was not neglecting Jin Yong.

"If there is no accident, I will participate as a judge on the day of the Miss Asia final."

Lin Baicheng said, and suddenly remembered something, and said: "You can start training the manager candidates of the TV station now. After a year or two, you will definitely step down as the manager of the TV station and do a good job in the work of the entire media group."

"Mr. Lin, about the candidate for the manager of the TV station?"

"You can draw up a few places. I will choose two people. You will train them both at the same time and let them compete. Whoever does better will be promoted."

Lin Baicheng thought for a while and said, Huang Xizhao must not let Huang Xizhao directly decide on the candidate for the manager of Asia TV, he must make the decision.As for who is doing better, as long as the gap between the two competitors is not too large, he has the final say on who is better.

"I'll report the list to you in a few days."

Huang Xizhao responded without being too surprised.

The two walked and chatted, went to Lin Baicheng's office in Asia Television, and chatted for a while, until Guan Zhilin came, and the two ended their conversation.

(End of this chapter)