game trailblazer

Chapter 224
The red phone on Rendanhu's desk rang suddenly. He picked it up and put it to his ear, and a familiar voice came from the receiver, but the tone was not so polite at the moment: "Mr. Ito, I I think you need to explain what happened just now!"

Ito coughed dryly, and said into the microphone: "Mr. Black, I am very sorry for what happened before. I happened to be away for a while, and I didn't expect the opponent to launch a decisive attack at that time. Oh, you Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to get rid of responsibility, I mean the opponent's luck is too good."

"What I want to hear is not such nonsense!" Black yelled into the phone angrily: "What I want now is your solution to the current situation, not your apology! In order to knock down the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index, we The BlackRock Fund has sold a large number of stocks, and originally planned to redeem them after the stock price fell, but now it is impossible. We cannot accept such a loss anyway! Mr. Ito, you need to take full responsibility for your actions !"

"Mr. Black," Ito's voice gradually became louder: "I think the main cause of the loss is not me, but due to unexpected large-scale financial intervention. I feel that it may be the upper hand in Hong Kong."

Hearing the reason Ito said, Blake was silent. He had the same feeling before, but it was a pity that the market flipped too fast, especially the few stocks manipulated by the BlackRock Fund, as if they were on a rocket and flew away in an instant. Soaring to the sky, there was no chance for them to react.Black also guessed that it might be the support from mainland China, but after all, his BlackRock fund suffered a huge loss. Although he could understand what Ito said, he was unwilling and unacceptable.

After thinking for a while, Black decided to stare at Ito first and then said: "Mr. Ito, after all, it was your mistakes that caught us off guard, so you must be responsible for the loss of our BlackRock fund!"

"Mr. Black, maybe your BlackRock fund suffered a lot of losses, but our cornerstone fund also suffered a huge loss this time. You must understand that this result is not what we want, so you let us bear the cost The responsibility for the loss of the Ryder Fund is unreasonable." Speaking of this, Ito's tone gradually eased a lot: "Mr. Black, I don't think it's time to argue about who is responsible, but to discuss how to make up for the previous losses. .”

"Make up? Huh!" Black snorted coldly in his heart, how could he make up for the market being closed? In two days, there will definitely be more funds that can be deployed from mainland China, and it will only be more difficult to fight in the stock market. , Now the BlackRock Fund has only lost one-third of its funds, and there is still a chance to turn around. There is no need to take risks in this dangerous place.

"Mr. Black, please rest assured, I think we still have a chance. You didn't notice that we all overlooked one thing. Nothing unexpected happened in the foreign exchange market today. I believe that Mr. Robertson's Tiger Fund has made a lot of money. , Compared with us, Tiger Fund takes much less risk, but can get more income than us, don’t you think it’s a bit out of proportion? How about..., hehe,” Ito smiled secretly, and then said : "I think both of us have suffered huge losses now. Since the stock market can no longer operate, it is better for everyone to support Mr. Robertson, what do you think?"

Ito's proposal made Blake's heart flutter. Yes, the world is big and you are the biggest one. If you don't want to kill yourself, what is more important than recovering the loss of your own family, so he also smiled: "Hehe, Mr. Ito It makes sense, and it's time for us to 'help' our allies."

Next, Ito and Black discussed on the phone for another 10 minutes before hanging up, and then called Robertson successively, explaining their intention to help in the foreign exchange market.Robertson happened to be a bit tight on funds. He did not transfer all Tiger Funds over to Hong Kong this time. After all, Southeast Asia is easier to start with, so most of them stayed in Southeast Asian countries to build positions quietly.After three days of operation, and after the fierce battle in the afternoon, Robertson has very little money left. Originally, he planned to find a few British banks for short-term financing. Now that his allies are willing to help, it can be used as a buffer , so Robertson readily agreed.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the Hong Kong foreign exchange market, which had been quiet for a while, fluctuated again. The Monetary Authority once again intervened. Zhang Lexing also transferred his remaining funds to the foreign exchange market, and a fierce financial war broke out again.The initial situation was nothing special. Zhang Lexing’s junior cloud quickly found the traces of funds A, B, and C from the financial data, but it didn’t take long for him to find something unusual. Fund A was still honestly shorting Hong Kong dollars. However, Funds B and C suddenly joined the long force. As a result, the once barely evenly matched exchange rate tug-of-war was broken, and the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar began to rise slowly.After the foreign exchange market closed in the evening, the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar actually rose all the way to the level of three days ago, as if there was no attack.Although Zhang Lexing couldn't understand it, he knew that this round of attacks on Hong Kong should have been avoided.

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Robertson was a little angry. He didn't expect that he kindly asked two allies to come to the foreign exchange market to make some money, but ended up being betrayed. Although he didn't have direct evidence, based on his years of experience, he could tell at a glance who was behind the scenes. the ghost.Fortunately, his attack on Hong Kong this time was just a test, and Tiger Fund did not invest in it as a whole. Although it suffered some losses due to the betrayal of two allies, as long as the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar is lowered in three months, the current situation A loss is no longer a loss.However, Robertson has already decided that he will never find such an unreliable ally next time. Instead of doing this, he might as well do it with his own family, at least there will be no inner ghosts to make trouble.

On the evening of August 8, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority issued an emergency notice to tighten monetary conditions and raise interbank lending rates. For speculators who borrowed money to sell Hong Kong dollars to buy U.S. dollars, it was equivalent to greatly increasing their speculative costs. For a time, a large number of hedge funds They all left Hong Kong one after another, looking for new prey.

On August 8, several tycoons in Hong Kong announced a batch of local investment projects one after another. In addition, Orient Industrial Group released the news that it will jointly build Universal Studios in Hong Kong with Universal Pictures of the United States. It is expected to cover an area of ​​23 hectares, including Film and television shooting bases, movie-themed amusement parks, supporting resort hotels and other facilities.The succession of good news has greatly boosted the confidence of Hong Kong people, and the stocks of related companies have continued to rise in the following days. The haze of the Hong Kong attack disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

At the beginning of September, as many blue-chip and red-chip listed companies repurchased shares, the situation in Hong Kong became more and more stable. At this time, Mr. Zhang Lexing finally waited for Russell to investigate Gilead Sciences of the United States and Roche Pharmaceuticals of Switzerland. Report.

The investigation report reads: "Gilead Sciences, Inc. was established in 1987 and is located in California, USA. It is an independent company engaged in biochemical research...

Founded in 1896 and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche Pharmaceuticals is a research-oriented health company..."

Zhang Lexing glanced briefly at the introductions of the two companies, and then turned the investigation report to the back, intending to find out if there was Tamiflu that he was interested in, but after looking over and over for a long time, he could not find Tamiflu from the report Or something close to Tamiflu.

"Haven't you started researching Tamiflu yet?" Zhang Lexing didn't give up, and read the report carefully from beginning to end, but still got nothing. He just saw a paragraph at the end of the report, which said that Gilead Sciences of the United States Oseltamivir, an anti-influenza drug developed by the company, is in the second phase of clinical trials. Due to the lack of funds for the trial, Gilead Sciences of the United States has resold the rights and interests of oseltamivir to Roche Pharmaceuticals of Switzerland.

Zhang Lexing carefully read this suspicious text several times, but he still couldn't find the connection with Tamiflu between the lines. Although oseltamivir is also a medicine for treating influenza, Gankang and Contac are also treating influenza. Yes, they can't all be regarded as Tamiflu.

Since Tamiflu could not be found for the time being, Zhang Lexing had no choice but to think about whether to find a solution from the ultimate owner of Tamiflu, Swiss Roche Pharmaceuticals, so he turned back to the previous information about Swiss Roche Pharmaceuticals and looked carefully.Before reading a few pages, Zhang Lexing couldn't help but patted the table angrily, because he saw the introduction of the equity structure of Swiss Roche Pharmaceuticals.

It is written in the information: "...the shares of Roche Pharmaceuticals in Switzerland are divided into two types, one is shares with voting rights (decision-making shares), accounting for 19% of the total number of outstanding shares, and the other is non-voting shares (ordinary shares) , accounting for 81% of the total number of outstanding shares. According to the original design of the Hoffman family, the actual controller of Roche, investors with non-voting shares can participate in dividends, but have no voting rights in the company's operating decisions. Roche's control is concentrated in 19 % on the stocks with voting rights. Both stocks are in circulation on the market, but the prices are different. Usually, the price of decision-making stocks is more than five times that of ordinary stocks...

The Hoffman family and the related Oli family own a total of 19% of the 50.1% decision-making shares, which is equivalent to 9.52% of the total number of outstanding shares. The actual control of pharmaceuticals..."

"Damn dual equity!" Zhang Lexing couldn't help cursing. This kind of dual equity company is the most troublesome to acquire. Take Switzerland's Roche Pharmaceuticals as an example. And 81% of the decision-making shares are bought, but there is still no way to gain control of Roche Pharmaceuticals, and can only become a fool who gives money to others.Zhang Lexing frowned. It seems that it is impossible to get the idea of ​​Swiss Roche Pharmaceuticals, at least it is impossible before the partnership agreement expires. If you want to get Tamiflu, you can only find another way.

Zhang Lexing took out a piece of draft paper and wrote everything he remembered about Tamiflu on it with a pen, "The developers seem to be Gilead Sciences of the United States and Roche Pharmaceuticals of Switzerland... The main ingredients of Tamiflu include star anise The shikimic acid extracted from it... and this medicine is used to treat influenza, and it has special effects on bird flu..." Then, while thinking, he drew casually on the draft paper with a pen.

Suddenly, Zhang Lexing's eyes stayed on the words "star anise" and "shikimic acid". He remembered that star anise seemed to be a specialty of Guangxi. Maybe we can use our brains on this, even if we can't monopolize the preparation of "shikimic acid", at least we must create some obstacles for Swiss Roche Pharmaceuticals, and we can't let them use bird flu to easily earn money from us Chinese.

Thinking of this, Zhang Lexing made a few phone calls and arranged two groups of people, one to go to Guangxi to learn about the situation of star anise, and the other to learn about shikimic acid and its relationship with anti-influenza drugs, so that the next step Provide information reference for further decision-making.

At the same time that Zhang Lexing sent people around to investigate, an event that had a profound impact on the entire game industry occurred in the United States on the other side of the ocean. It also brought a huge shock to the development of the domestic game industry. Many new types of games are in Born under the influence of this incident, just this month, "Ultima Online" released by EA and developed by Origin has officially launched and started commercial operation.

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