Rebirth of England.

Chapter 656 Kolo Airlines
"For the development of Kolo, air routes between major cities are also very important. During our previous visits to various European countries, we have already confirmed some routes. This time when we go to China, we will also discuss cooperation in this area."

What Jammeh Bongo talked about with Barron was the newly established Color Airlines.

Prior to this, Colo had only a few flights in cooperation with African Airlines. Whether traveling to Colo from Europe or Asia, one had to go through complicated transfers, which was very troublesome.

Previously, when ACI Insurance Group acquired AIA from American International Group, it also reached a package agreement. The Cavendish Trust Fund and the Global Industrial Investment Fund jointly acquired the International Leasing Finance Company, which owns more than 55 aircraft, for US$1000 billion and renamed it Global Leasing Finance Company.

The Cavendish Trust holds 60% of the shares in the company, while the remaining 40% is held by the GII Fund.

Therefore, Color Airlines, which was jointly funded by the Color government and the West African Group (West African Group holds 60% of the shares and Color National Development Investment Company holds 40% of the shares), does not need to purchase new aircraft, but only needs to lease passenger aircraft from Global Leasing Finance Company.

Currently, Colombo Airlines has finalized routes with Britain and other countries from Lomé Airport and Britta Airport to the capitals of these European countries, as well as flights between some important cities in Africa.

Next, during this visit to China, Jammeh Bongo will also negotiate with the other party to finalize direct flights from cities such as Yanjing and Shanghai to Kolo.

Speaking of which, as Colo is an important trade port in West Africa and a cargo transshipment hub in West Africa, and a country that has always been friendly to China, it will not be too difficult for it to open these routes.

After all, in the development of the new Kolo government, the exchanges between it and China are still very close, and Chinese companies are present in many of Kolo's infrastructure projects.

The opening of direct flights between the two sides will also be conducive to the smooth progress of these collaborations.

……

Several helicopters landed on the airport runway one after another.

More than a dozen bodyguards in suits and sunglasses got off the first two helicopters, and then walked to the third helicopter. Among the guards, Barron got off, followed closely by Zhang Junning, who was wearing a gun-gray suit and holding a briefcase in her hand.

Not far from these helicopters, on the wide runway of the airport, the huge Devonshire was quietly waiting for Barron and his party.

"Your Highness, you are here..."

Alia, the life assistant who was already waiting on the Devonshire, took Barron's coat and followed him after he boarded the plane.

"Get ready to go."

"Ok."

After Jammeh Bongo left Australia, Barron was also preparing to go to America.

Although Argos Retail Group successfully completed the acquisition of Costco before this, DS Group suffered a small setback in Nvidia's financing - in that financing, DS Group only obtained 20% of the new stock quota. This time when going to America, Barron needs to have a good talk with the bosses of Vanguard Group and BlackRock Group.

Of course, Baron also understood that if he initially took part of Vanguard's shares in Nvidia in exchange for allowing the other party to invest in United Energy Group, Nvidia would be in a critical period of transformation at that time.

Now Nvidia's transformation has obviously been successful, and even though it encountered the subprime mortgage crisis, its stock price quickly recovered due to the company's good performance, which also allowed Vanguard Group to once again see the potential of this company.

Moreover, the accuracy of Barron's investment has always been praised by people, which inevitably brings side effects, that is, more and more investment companies are studying Barron's investment direction - Vanguard Group is no exception, which means that the possibility of Barron's "picking up bargains" from those institutions is getting lower and lower. Seeing that Barron has been increasing his holdings in Nvidia, it is not surprising that American Capital, including Vanguard Group and BlackRock Group, will be more actively involved in this Nvidia new stock issuance.

After all, although DS Group, Vanguard Group and BlackRock Group have completed mutual shareholding, this only means that they have certain common interests in the macro field.

But there is still competition between them - in the United States, investment giants such as Vanguard Group and BlackRock Group are still more competitive than DS Group. It is no wonder that Nvidia's new share issuance will give these capitals a larger share.

"Barron, isn't Argos Retail Group planning to issue shares in the United States?"

Sure enough, in this meeting, Vanguard and BlackRock played Tai Chi very smoothly against Nvidia, showing that they are both old foxes.

Larry Fink of BlackRock Group also asked this question. It is obvious that after seeing Argos Retail Group complete its acquisition of Costco, he also became interested in this company.

Baron doesn't mind their participation in the Argos Retail Group. After all, in the competition with companies like Amazon and Walmart, the Argos Retail Group is bound to burn money during this period.

"Now is not the right time. After all, you know, the stock market is too depressed. It is not suitable for Argos to be listed in the United States..."

Barron shrugged and said.

There is nothing wrong with what he said. Now is indeed not the right time to go public. Even if it goes public, the funds that can be raised will be much less than normal.

Many companies waiting to go public have had their listing time postponed as a result.

and……

“Didn’t you invest in Amazon?”

“Yes, Barron, we are interested in investing in any company we like, even if they compete with each other.”

Larry Fink said without hesitation:
“Like you, didn’t you also invest in Google?”

In fact, not only has he never sold his previous Google shares, but the Mars Fund has even been holding shares in Amazon.

"I won't hold on to it forever, it's just that the time is not right yet."

"Really? Then I hope you can tell me secretly when you are ready to reduce your holdings."

Hearing Larry Fink's words, Barron smiled and asked:

"Do you trust my judgment that much, Mr. Fink?"

"At least that's a more reliable judgment, isn't it? Other than that, I can't think of anyone whose judgment is more accurate than yours, Your Highness."

(End of this chapter)