Reborn Millennial Gamer

Chapter 456 Goldman Sachs: You Make Me Lose So Completely (4K)

August 8, Goldman Sachs.

When John Waldron returned to the United States from Yanjing, he sat face to face with David Solomon in the conference room, surrounded by several senior partners, passing a few pages of paper among each other.

"The information that George sent back is very important."

David Solomon laughed loudly, "Huaxialu is going to sell high and buy low Baidu stocks, exactly as we thought."

"David, it's great that you arranged for George to lurk, so I can't imagine how you would agree to bet with Huaxia Lu. The bet is still the penguin's pricing power. This is too hasty!"

The hook-nosed Jewish partner frowned.

"It's not entirely David's fault. Who among us would have thought that Baidu would start like this? Did anyone!"

John Waldron argued for his old partner, looked around, the dissatisfied objections gradually subsided, and then asked:

"How much is Penguin's IPO price?"

"50.5 dollars, the market responded enthusiastically, and the inquiry result was surprisingly good, because with Baidu's success, it is possible to support it..."

Not only did David Solomon have no joy on his face, but his expression became more and more gloomy.

"I think this IPO is reasonable. The United States has always admired technology heroes, especially Lu is a top rich man. Although he is a Chinese, the real money in the market will prove everything."

John Waldron smacked his lips, "Actually, the crux of the problem is the Dutch auction method."

"That's right!"

"fuxk, it cost us 4 pips off our commission!"

The partners present, one by one, had ugly faces, like eggplants beaten by frost, black and purple.

The higher the IPO, the less the investment bank earns. What’s wrong with it, the opportunities for investment banks to operate in the dark are pitifully small, and a lot of intermediate handling fees are reduced. The commission that Goldman Sachs can get ranges from the standard 7%. It fell directly to 3%.

Once upon a time, listed companies begged me for Goldman Sachs, now Google is bullying me, why is a Chinese penguin bullying me?
"We can't ask Penguin for this account, we can ask Huaxia Lu!" David Solomon knocked on the table, "George's information is clearly written, he will continue to buy gold."

"Are we still going short?"

The Jewish partners and others looked at each other, more or less full of doubts in their hearts. In the end, the gold war will move out the Fed, or will it retreat after a disastrous defeat, or come back?
David Solomon said with a straight face: "The first defeat was the result of many unpredictable factors. We did not have any problems in operation. Now, the terrorist attack crisis in England has been lifted, which represents the relationship with 'terror' The associated demand for gold will also fall back."

"And don't forget, Goldman Sachs has more than 6000 million contracts for delivery in August and September. Even if the price of gold remains unchanged at today's $564.3 an ounce, the loss will exceed $4 million."

Murderous look appeared in John Waldron's eyes: "Whether it is a better stop loss or profit, we must bring the price of gold back to below $450!"

As soon as these words came out, the partners became more cautious, and fell into long thinking and weighing one by one. The whole room was quiet, and a needle could be heard, but no one was the first to stand up.

"Of course, it wasn't just me and John's idea."

David Solomon seemed to have expected this kind of scene a long time ago, and he said with emphasis: "It is also the suggestion of Green and other 'hawks' friends of the Federal Reserve. Everyone understands that now is the critical moment for financial innovation in America. We Find a way to help ZF keep money in Wall Street, use CDO and other financial derivatives to run the money, if hot money is allowed to flow to gold..."

"I agree!"

After careful consideration, the Jewish partners finally said that gold is the enemy of the US dollar, and a large amount of money flowing from Wall Street to gold will severely dampen the confidence of the US financial market and even cause disastrous inflation.

"I'm OK."

"me too."

The partners all raised their hands and voted in favor. Just as they were about to enter the next link and deploy the second gold short-selling plan, the secretary who was sitting in the corner silently recording suddenly received a text message from his mobile phone, and his expression changed suddenly. Forwarded to John Waldron.

"Wait a minute, everyone, I think we plan to talk about it another day, shall we?"

He clapped his hands, smiling all over his face, relaxed and calm.

David Solomon was stunned, and like everyone else present, they all cast their gazes on him immediately, suspicious in surprise, but seeing the secretary keep giving him glances from the corner of his eye, an ominous premonition surged into his heart instantly.

"David, what do you think?"

John Waldron looked sideways.

"That's right, let's talk another day!"

David Solomon looked at him, changed his mind immediately, and took a lot of trouble to invite the partners out. Soon, there were only three of them left in the huge conference room.

He asked, "What happened?"

"David, there's a plane crash."

John Waldron had mixed feelings.

"What? Air crash!!"

David Solomon couldn't believe his ears, it was like a thunderbolt hit the head.

.........

"Helios Flight 522 flew from Larnaca International Airport in Cyprus to Athens International Airport in Greece. This was originally a short flight of 2 hours, but a strange and bizarre air crash occurred.

The co-pilot in the cockpit collapsed on the dashboard, but the pilot who was piloting the plane was nowhere to be seen. Without a pilot, this ghostly plane hovered over Athens, Until it ran out of fuel and crashed and caught fire..."

(ps: it really happened).

The TV was urgently reporting the "bizarre crash of Helios Flight 522". Although David Solomon and John Waldron knew about it, they still had their eyes wide open with disbelief on their faces.

"David, precious metals are bound to go up."

John Waldron pursed his lips, reluctantly, but had to face reality.

"Don't panic, it's just by chance, just by chance..."

David Solomon waved his arms angrily, and blushed and shouted: "Brother! Why does God always stand behind a Chinese man? Why! We are the Jews. God chose us to be the master of the world and should not stand behind us!" Here!"

At this moment, the landline and mobile phone on the table rang almost at the same time, including the secretary's, and all the calls were from the partners who had just been "dismissed".

They are not fuel-efficient lamps. They are all well-informed, and sooner or later they learned the news of the air crash.

"The air crash is just an emergency and will only affect the gold price for a while. We just have to wait a week or two."

"Patience, buddy, we will pick a suitable time to implement our plan, you can rest assured."

"Two weeks, just give me two weeks, I promise!"

"..."

The two were exhausted, like eating flies, and were forced to compromise helplessly. If they did not implement the short-selling plan within two weeks, they must be completely terminated.

One day, two days...

With the air crash incident, more and more investors poured into gold as a safe-haven asset, pushing the price of gold to skyrocket. The price of gold rose from the mark of $560 an ounce to $600 a week, reaching a peak of $611.9. But quickly fell back.

In the second week, as David Solomon expected, the international gold price had a slight tendency to fall amid the shocks due to the lack of motivation to boost the rally.

However, people are not as good as heaven.

The Jewish God is on Master Lu's side again!

"Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Florida on August 8, and at dawn on August 23, with winds of 8 kilometers per hour, made landfall on the Gulf Coast just outside New Orleans.

When the hurricane made landfall, torrential rains crippled the city's drainage system, power supply and roads.The precipitation brought by the hurricane caused the flood barriers in New Orleans to burst, and the sea water flooded back, and the city was filled with ocean..." (ps: it is also true)
"Mother fuxk! Why!"

David Solomon's eye sockets were about to burst, and his dream of making money from falling gold prices was once again ruined. He was so angry that he yelled helplessly into the air:
"why why why!!"

He was moving, John Waldron was still, his whole face was so cloudy that water dripped out, his hands were folded, resting on his chin, his eyes were staring straight at the host on the TV——

"As of now, a total of 26 tropical storms have formed in the Atlantic Ocean, 14 of which gradually intensified and eventually became hurricanes, and this time 'Katrina' is the most terrifying, with a power equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb, and it is attacking the south Zhuzhou..."

"boom!"

David Solomon picked up the glass and smashed it hard.

In an instant, the glass shattered into a pile of glass shards and splashed out, a crack appeared on the TV screen, followed by several blurred vertical stripes.

The secretary was so frightened that she couldn't help shrinking her head.

"Today is the last delivery day, right?"

John Waldron ignored it directly, with a gloomy tone.

The secretary stammered, "No, that's right."

"Cut off!"

John Waldron gets it right.

"Cut off?"

David Solomon regained some sanity in his anger, blowing his beard and staring: "Do you know how much Goldman Sachs will lose if you do this?"

John Waldron said: "If you don't do this, you will only lose more and more, David, you should understand better than me!"

David Solomon clearly knew that it was the right decision to cut his position, but he couldn't let it go. Five or six billion dollars, just eight or nine months of empty orders, and the 06 contract with Mr. Lu. According to the current situation, the price of gold It is not a problem to break through 700 US dollars at the end of the year, and it is very likely to reach 800 US dollars next year.

In just one year, it has doubled!

Goldman Sachs may have to lose billions of dollars!

John Waldron said: "David, I have seriously reviewed the entire short sale during this time. Do you think that Huaxia Lu might have anticipated the current situation when he set up a trick to lure us?"

"No one can predict terrorism, plane crashes and hurricanes, only God, John."

David Solomon shook his head repeatedly and gritted his teeth: "But in the final analysis, Huaxia Lu is not Satan, but also a devil. He actually made us lose so badly! How will he pay back this debt!"

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot." John Waldron had a fierce look in his eyes.

"That, that..."

The secretary couldn't help interrupting, secretly poking that Penguin was going to start negotiations with Sequoia and them again on the issue price of new shares.

"Um?!"

John Waldron was stunned, "Isn't it already fixed last time, at $50.5 per share?"

"Huaxia Lu and the others think it's still a little low."

The secretary conveyed weakly: "It is said that the market reaction is quite strong, and they are going to play a big game this time."

"Big one? Hehe, how big is it? Google's issue price is only $85. How can he be as big as the sky!"

David Solomon sneered, "These guys are all inflated. It's only a few days before the listing, and the price will be raised temporarily."

.........

David Solomon stayed at Goldman Sachs to execute the "cutting positions" order, and John Waldron and others came to the hotel not far from the New York Stock Exchange cursingly, which was the temporary "command center" built by Penguin.

When they entered the meeting room, as they expected, Sequoia's people had already arrived, and they had obviously had a quarrel with Penguin, and they refused to give in to each other.

"Ah, you are here."

Lu Fei raised a smile on his harmless face, and pointed to the empty seat opposite.

"66.6 dollars? Lu, Ayokui thief!"

John Waldron was already holding back his anger, but the moment he saw him, anger welled up in his heart.

"calm down."

Lu Fei said calmly, "We in Huaxia have always been very sensitive to numbers. We always like to use '6' or '8' at certain moments. 66.6 is also for auspiciousness."

"If you can, you still want to come up with 88.8?"

John Waldron frowned, his face full of displeasure.

Lu Huateng, Zeng Liqing and the others looked at each other, and couldn't help feeling suspicious. Looking at their expressions, why did they feel like they owed them a billion or eight billion?
"Cough cough!"

Liu Chiping cleared his throat. He was recruited by Lu Fei and Lu Huateng a little later, and he was also the group who got the incentive options. Changing the issue price to "66.6" is because he proposed following Master Lu's intention, and it is also in line with him. Personal interests are now desperately bragging to the underwriters about the rightness of the move.

"In the direction of Internet social networking, although ICQ and MSN are pioneers, we are now the undoubted global leader. We are the first company to go public with instant messaging as its core business, and we have a company that is not inferior to Baidu. A search engine—Sogou, and a social networking site popular in Southeast Asia—Line…”

Whether it is China, or the Internet users and companies in the world, they cannot do without our products!As "The World Is Flat" said..."

"Wait a minute, it seems that you wrote "The World Is Flat", right? Lu!" John Waldron's mouth twitched uncontrollably.

"Isn't it written right?"

Lu Fei blinked his eyes with an extremely innocent expression.

"..."

John Waldron felt that it made sense, but he was speechless. After all, it is a masterpiece that has continuously dominated the best-selling list in the United States.

Sequoia Capital is still not letting go, because companies with too high issue prices are generally strong, or in the end they lose their wives and lose their troops. Penguin should be steady.

"Everyone will rush to buy the $66.6 dollar, so don't worry." Lu Huateng chimed in.

"Indeed, but by doing this, you have already broken the rules of Wall Street!"

John Waldron said, generally speaking, the IPO pricing is finalized after the roadshow based on feedback from investment banks and investors.

But Penguin didn't agree, and left Goldman Sachs again and again. Such a powerful company is too rude. As the big brother of Wall Street, Goldman Sachs must show some color!

I also want to save some face for shorting gold!
"That's right! And it's not the first time!"

The representatives of Sequoia are also rarely on the side of Goldman Sachs. For the tradition of Wall Street, the capital once again united.

"If Penguin insists on doing this, we will advise our clients to be cautious about your stock."

After John Waldron finished speaking, he glanced at Lu Fei. This guy's face was still calm, and he was not afraid of threats at all. He gritted his teeth and decided to make a more ruthless move——

Goldman Sachs to withdraw from Penguin's IPO project!

However, before he could say anything, he was abruptly interrupted by Lu Fei, who suddenly stood up and apologized, "I'm sorry, everyone, I have to excuse me for a moment."

Seriously!

John Waldron frowned and said furiously: "Lu, now is the most critical moment for Penguin to go public. You should sit down and discuss the IPO with us now, and then go to the reception and banquet we arranged to recommend stocks. If there is no reasonable reason……"

"I'm going to meet Gates and Buffett, Saori~"

Lu Fei said something lightly.

"Um!!"

Lu Huateng, Zeng Liqing and other penguin generals cast their eyes one after another, adoring, admiring, envious, admiring, and shocked, all kinds of emotions are intertwined.

On the opposite side of the capital side, the expressions were different and thought-provoking. The representatives of Sequoia were really forgetful. They had forgotten the previous quarrel, and immediately agreed to support the issue price of US$66.6, or even a little higher.

"Is it reasonable?"

Lu Fei looked at John Waldron and spread his hands.

"Hehe, very reasonable."

He obviously has a flexible bottom line, and he smiled awkwardly but politely: "Lu, we will discuss this meeting with your subordinates, you should hurry up."

Looking at Master Lu who was sent out with enthusiasm by everyone, Lu Huateng adjusted his glasses, his eyes were hot——

Man, it should be so!

　Thanks to the little monk for the 100 starting coins.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)