Back to 1980: Please Love Me Again

Chapter 382 I Am The Foreign Power They Say
Tokyo, Goi Matsune Group.

"Xiaoqiu, Xinyi, immediately short the cherry blossom stock market and Japanese yen futures. Be sure to use all the funds to short the cherry blossom assets while clearing the real estate!"

At the end of the meeting, Zhao Wenmu made an amazing decision.

He wants to use all 2440 billion to short Sakura assets!
Including but not limited to yen futures, offshore yen futures, Nikkei index, Sakura country stocks, and yen index funds issued in other countries.
All financial products related to Sakura assets, as long as they can be shorted, will be shorted.

Only in this way can the 2440 billion cash be sent out quickly!

The so-called short-selling, using the simplest example, for example, if the current Mitsui Sumitomo stock price is 100 yen, Zhao Wenmu can borrow 17000 yen worth of Mitsui Sumitomo stock from a securities company if he invests [-] yen.

That is 170 shares.

Then Zhao Wenmu sold these stocks in the market, and he now has 27000 yen in cash (17000 yuan from the stock sale + 10000 yuan he originally mortgaged).

After a while, the cherry blossom stock market fell, and the stock price of Sumitomo Mitsui was assumed to be 50 yen at this time.

Then Zhao Wenmu only needs to spend 8500 yen to buy back 170 shares.

Return 170 shares of Sumitomo Mitsui to the securities company.

赵文牧手里剩余27000-8500=18500日元，扣除自己原本的1万日元，实际盈利8500元。

The profit margin is 85%.

Allowing short-selling transactions is standard in mature markets.

Shorting is not a heinous speculative behavior. On the contrary, a mature long-short mechanism is more conducive to price discovery and the stability of the capital market.

About ten days later, Goi Matsune Group finally sold all the real estate in hand.

During this period, everyone kept shorting the cherry blossoms.

Another six or seven days later, Sakura Central Bank announced the fifth interest rate hike as scheduled.

An increase in the interest rate level means that residents get more interest when they deposit money in the bank; at the same time, it means that when borrowing money from the bank, they need to pay more interest.

Much of the money borrowed by the latter was actually invested in the stock market.

This also means that the actual cost and sunk cost of stock trading are increasing.

The attractiveness of stock trading is getting less and less.

Many people with a relatively low level of risk appetite will choose to sell their stocks at this time and deposit the cash they get in the bank.

Safe and secure to eat interest.

Those who sell are the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

After all, the cherry blossom stock market has been trading sideways for so long because buyers and sellers have fallen into a delicate balance.

No one can beat anyone.

At this time, a traitor appeared on the buyer, and the balance was completely tilted towards the seller.

The decline started so casually.

If it is necessary to join this process, a blame man, an evil external force, will be added.

It must be Zhao Wenmu.

Because he used 2400 billion principal plus leverage to short the cherry blossom market.

This in itself adds a new force to the empty side.

Undoubtedly, it will accelerate the breaking of the balance.

But he doesn't care.

All his transactions are in full compliance with the relevant laws of the Sakura Country.

Even Goi Matsune Group has filed with the exchange and Sakura regulators in advance before making related transactions.

Although these are not mandatory.

In this way, it can be described as foolproof.

When the decline started as expected, the women were very calm, which was completely different from the state when they were long yen in 1985.

At that time, there were only billions of transactions, and several people could not sleep or eat, wishing to stare at the display screen of the exchange all the time.

The fluctuations of every minute and every second will be seen by them, and then converted into things they are familiar with, so they become more and more restless.

But now that there are hundreds of billions of transactions at every turn, everyone no longer has that kind of anxiety and uneasiness.

Instead, calm and flat.

After all, more money is really just a number.

Zhao Wenmu finally realized the true state of a great sage when Teacher Ma said, "I have never touched money, and I have no interest in money".

It's like the feeling when I walked out of some hotels with my wife a few days ago.

Life is boring.

Although only a few 10 minutes later, he wanted to take his wife to go again.

Money is just a numbers game for Zhao Wenmu. The Zhao family is not keen on personal enjoyment. The five of them still live in the nursing home complex and the houses in Shanqian Village.

And very happy with it.

But Zhao Wenmu still seizes every opportunity to amass money crazily, because what he will do in the future is really a bottomless pit.

The rate of decline in the cherry blossom stock market gradually began to accelerate, and the government of the cherry blossom country still hadn't reacted at this time.

Even a little complacent.

The overheated stock market has finally started to cool down, which is good for our economy, and the market is gradually moving towards a healthier future... On the TV screen, Sakura officials and economists say so.

Oh, it turns out that everything is going well.

only the guy drinking water knows it's cold or hot.

The feelings of Sakura shareholders are obviously not like this.

There is only one question in the minds of struggling retail investors, why is the decline continuing?
They have already shot out all the bullets in their hands, their positions have been filled up, and they can no longer take orders.

Looking at the dazzling figures on the books, many people feel desperate.

However, the joys and sorrows of people are not connected.When the stockholders of Cherry Blossom were crying for their fathers and mothers, Zhao Wenmu and some big funds who responded in a timely manner were reveling at the moment.

Every moment, the numbers on their accounts are increasing.

This is a true zero-sum game.

After all, only when the stock market falls and other people lose money can those who short the market make money.

"Third brother, there is something wrong with the trend of public opinion recently, should we avoid the limelight?"

Almost a month later, the Sakura stock market finally entered the crash stage after an accelerated decline.

The market capital is dead silent, and the buyer's power is almost completely exhausted.

Those gamblers who bought stocks with increased leverage finally broke their positions, and the securities company launched a forced liquidation mechanism to force the stocks in their accounts to be sold.

But because no one was taking orders in the market at this time, these stocks suppressed the stock price to the floor.

The wealth of countless stockholders for half their lives was instantly wiped out.

There have been incidents of stockholders jumping off buildings in many places in Sakura.

Cherry Blossom's domestic public opinion began to change, conspiracy theories were rampant, and the theory of malicious short-selling by foreign capital spread rapidly among the public.

Some members of the Sakura Congress even pretended to have evidence of crimes committed by foreigners.

For a time, more foreign capital chose to withdraw from Sakura, and the market conditions became more and more difficult.

"Ha ha."

Zhao Wenmu shook his head and laughed.

There is nothing new under the sun.

He is about to face the stockholders of Sakura in the image of a savior!

"Zhenyi, do you want to be worshiped?"

Zhao Wenmu asked with a smile.

"Haha, third brother, I only like to make money in a low-key manner."

Rong Zhenyi was very pragmatic and quickly waved her hand to refuse.

"Third brother, I like to be admired!"

Rong Xinyi quickly raised her hand.

(End of this chapter)