Age of Dreams

After eating lunch, he took a short rest. When Xiao Qi was about to take the elevator downstairs with his two wives, he suddenly approached a person from the side.

Seeing that he was heading straight to Xiao Qi, a bodyguard immediately attacked and pressed him against the wall.

"Don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong!" The white man in his twenties struggled and said, "I'm not a bad guy! I'm a friend of Sam, I'm looking for Mr. Xiao to have big business to discuss!"

No matter what he said, the other bodyguard stretched out his hand and touched him around, but he didn't find any suspicious weapons, so he loosened his hand slightly.

Xiao Qi looked at a name tag on his body, nodded for a moment, and the man gained freedom.

"Hello, Mr. Xiao, my name is Morak Thain, and John Thain of Merrill Lynch is my father." The man came to Xiao Qi, and while he arranged his clothes, he stretched out his hand.

Shaking his hand, Xiao Qi asked, "What business do you want to discuss with me?"

"That's it, Mr. Xiao, can we find a place to talk slowly?" Seeing Xiao Qi's kind attitude, Morakot had a trace of confidence and looked at him expectantly.

"You talk about the business first." Xiao Qi smiled, "It's not that I look down on it, it's just Mr. Thain. If the business is too small, it doesn't make sense for you to find me, right?"

"Absolutely not small! Absolutely not small!" Thain looked around and found that almost all of them were Chinese, and he said in a quiet voice, "Mr. Xiao, I have three big deals, which add up to more than 20 billion. U.S. dollars, you must be interested."

Xiao Qi's heart moved.

It happened that the elevator door opened, and Xiao Qi said to Taylor and Tang Mingxiang: "You go shopping and rest, I'll look for you later."

"Humph!"

Taylor, who had already put on his sunglasses, entered the elevator with a cold snort, obviously dissatisfied with the sudden emergence of Morakot.

Tang Mingxiang is naturally more sensible than her. As he lightly chin his head, he also took the babysitter and a few bodyguards into the elevator.

"Let's go, find a quieter coffee shop." When the door closed, Xiao Qi turned around, "I hope the business is really as you said."

"I won't lie to you!" Morak's face was full of smiles: "Here, please. We go downstairs from the stairs, and there is an authentic Cuban coffee shop two floors upstairs. The taste is the most authentic."

Ten minutes later, the two sat in this cafe.

It was already working time at this time, and there were not many people drinking coffee leisurely, so I found a few decks in a remote corner and sat on Xiao Qi's bodyguards. He took a few sips of coffee cautiously, stabilized his mind, and organized what he wanted to say.

Xiao Qi was not in a hurry. In fact, he had guessed something. If it was really what he expected, then Morakot came to the door today. Really find the right person!

"Mr. Xiao, do you know that my father spoke in an interview a few days ago?" Morakk knew that Xiao Qi would not listen to his own nonsense, so he said straightforwardly: "Regarding Merrill Lynch’s heavy losses, it will sell some valuable assets. Do you know about making up for the write-down of your own assets?"

It really is this!

When Xiao Qi nodded faintly, his heart became excited.

Fairy Company has always paid attention to the collection of financial intelligence at home and abroad. Various news agencies, professional newspapers and magazines, and even a few professional business intelligence companies provided Xiao Qi with all kinds of news.

After sorting out by the little beauty secretaries, on average, Xiao Qi reads more than dozens of documents every day, totaling tens of thousands of words.

Although most of them are just a rough idea, Xiao Qi has an impression of the important news in general, let alone what happened to the super giant Merrill Lynch.

When he had nothing to do in his previous life, Xiao Qi often read some posts on various forums on the Internet, many of which had post-event Zhuge Liang. Therefore, Xiao Qi can also see detailed analysis of many major events that have happened before from their post-event review.

The collapse of Merrill Lynch, one of the five major investment banks, is an event that economists are enthusiastic about. They have thought of many ideas and said what to do. Merrill Lynch will not go bankrupt.

But from Xiao Qi’s own experience in this life, things are not as simple as these people say. First of all, the confrontation between Wall Street and the US government is an unsolvable problem.

In the end, Wall Street was rushed. Several already difficult investment banks, insurance companies, financial mortgage companies, etc. went bankrupt. This can be regarded as a protest against the US government’s non-aid.

The U.S. government really couldn't hold it anymore. They were afraid that more companies would go bankrupt, so they could only choose to compromise.

To some extent, Wall Street has succeeded.

Therefore, it can be said that Merrill Lynch’s bankruptcy is absolutely inevitable. It has nothing to do with how much of their non-performing assets and whether the debt is so urgent that it cannot be delayed!

In fact, you can see that although these companies have closed down, their various executives are still flourishing and earning a lot of dollars. These executives and salaries are not given by the companies and banks that still exist at Goldman Sachs. ?

However, the failure of Merrill Lynch has nothing to do with Xiao Qi.

Oh, no, it should be related.

Merrill Lynch’s ostensible reason is that because of too many asset write-downs, the main item of asset write-down is to lose tens of billions of dollars in subordinated debt financial products.

And among these tens of billions, Xiao Qi also earned a share. By the end of the year when Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, etc. went bankrupt, Xiao Qi's monthly income could cover most of the previous half a year!

What the boy cares about now is the high-quality assets that Merrill Lynch will sell and those that have not been sold.

Just in early June, Merrill Lynch’s CEO John Thain, also Morakot’s father, said in an interview that because Merrill Lynch’s pre-loss in the second quarter was serious, Merrill Lynch wanted Sale of some assets, such as Bloomberg News’s 20% stake worth 5 billion US dollars, such as the financial data services company’s 37% stake worth 4 billion US dollars, and the Black Rock Group’s 49.8% stake worth 12 billion US dollars.

All three companies are considered high-quality assets with good profitability.

Among them, financial data companies mainly focus on banking services. The company is small in scale, but very professional. 30% of the banks in the world have adopted their service terminals and equipment.

Bloomberg News is even more powerful. Its founder, Michael Bloomberg, is now being re-elected as mayor of New York City. From 2001 to 2013, he was mayor for 12 years at a stretch, and his annual salary from New York was $1. It's the same as Qiao's leader at Apple.

What's more, he is different from the Qiao gang leader. The Qiao gang leader also has some equity incentives and other rewards. Bloomberg not only does not have these, but also donates hundreds of millions of dollars every year to improve the living environment in New York, which is deeply loved by the people of New York.

If it were not for the rule that officials could only be re-elected for three terms, the people of New York would have liked him forever.

The biggest backing to support him doing this. It is his Bloomberg News Agency, the world's largest financial information service provider, with a market value of more than 25 billion U.S. dollars, and he owns 62% of the shares, or 15.5 billion U.S. dollars, ranking among the top 50 richest people in the world.

It's April 2013. According to Forbes’s ranking of the rich, he ranked 13th in the world with a net worth of more than 27 billion U.S. dollars, and his soaring net worth is naturally due to Bloomberg’s growing prosperity, which shows how much investment value Bloomberg’s stock will have. !

Needless to say the last Black Rock Group, does its English name look familiar? Does it look like the Blackstone Group, the world's largest private equity fund?

In fact, the Black Rock Group is also separated from the asset management department of the Black Rock Group. Now it has become the world's largest asset management listed company with a market value of more than 24 billion U.S. dollars.

Being able to become the world's largest asset management company has already proven how good it is!

Thoughts flashed by.

Seeing Xiao Qi signal to know, Morak lowered his voice again: "You also know that my father was only in danger in December last year, but now Merrill Lynch’s mess is so serious that it’s time to have to sell high-quality assets to live! You see! Which shares of Bloomberg, Financial Data Services, and Black Rock Group are you interested in? I can help you promote the acquisition!"

Xiao Qi raised his eyebrows and looked at him for a while, until Morak was a little unnatural. Cai said: "Mr. Thain, the mayor of Bloomberg used to have an appointment with Merrill Lynch. If he wants to sell 20% of Bloomberg News’ shares, he has the right of first refusal. Similarly, there is the Black Rock Group, whose 49.8% of the shares are strategic Sexual investment. If the sale must be approved by the Black Rock Group’s board of directors. The last financial data service company originally had Middle Eastern capital such as the Kuwait Investment Authority and the Qatar Royal Family Management Fund. If they want to come to this 37% of the shares, they are bound to get it, and Take the lead, right?"

Morakot smiled: "You all know it!"

He originally wanted to match Xiao Qi and Merrill Lynch. Even if the final acquisition failed, he could make some money as a broker.

But I didn't expect Xiao Qi to understand so deeply, his little cleverness would naturally be useless.

Just as he was thinking how to leave, Xiao Qi suddenly asked: "When we meet today, besides Sam, who else knows?"

"Sam? He doesn't know." Morak shook his head. "He just bragged to me that you were eating in the restaurant. After that, we went downstairs and I came back up again. No one knew that I was looking for you."

Xiao Qi nodded ~www.readwn.com~ and motioned to a bodyguard next to him. He immediately took out a large thick envelope from the briefcase and walked over and put it on the table.

Morak picked it up at Xiao Qi's gesture, and suddenly discovered that it was all American bearer Treasury bonds, each with a face value of US$5,000, at least two to three million!

Morakot's breathing suddenly tightened: "Mr. Xiao..."

"I haven't seen you, nor have you seen me." Xiao Qi said faintly: "At nine o'clock this evening, in Room 903, Apartment 11 Broadway, Manhattan, I have prepared a bottle of champagne. If Mr. Thain goes wrong After the room, you can come over and have a drink."

Morakot suddenly realized!

Putting the envelope into the bag, he didn't say a word, and walked straight out of the room. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote recommended votes, monthly tickets, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users please go to read.)

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