Rebirth of Hong Kong's tycoons, shorting Eagle Sauce

Many industry experts think that Cayman Capital sold ASML too early. When the F2 laser that Schmidt advocated is successfully developed, it will not be a problem to sell 30% of the shares for 50 billion US dollars.

This is a well-known loss-making deal.

Fortunately, Cayman Capital is not a listed company, and ordinary people are not eligible to subscribe to the financial products launched by Cayman Capital, and its business is hardly affected by public opinion.

However, ASML has risen again because of the "premium" acquisition.

Just when Robert thought that this matter would soon be over.

Some boring media in the United States broke some "shocking inside stories"!

According to an ASML executive who did not want to be named, Cayman Capital made the decision to sell ASML at a low price because it had to do so.

Everyone was curious and looked down with relish.

"Because Robert has always been at a disadvantage in the power struggle, he has even reached the point of being afraid to face Mr. Smith. Faced with the killer moves that Smith kept throwing out, Robert, who was unable to respond, had to sell ASML at a loss."

The news that the big short failed to seize power and was kicked out of the board of directors by the president of ASML suddenly became a topic of conversation after dinner.

Robert was dumbfounded. Could this executive who did not want to reveal his name be Smith himself?

He did not expect that the words he used to evade others would become a bit true as they were spread.

For a while, he was speechless, and Wang Lei expressed deep sympathy for him:

"Brother, you are bound to bear this blame."

So much so that his work was affected and he was besieged by the media every day.

"Sir, now the public thinks that you are no match for Smith. We want to hear your opinion."

Robert could not help but say a few more words.

"Cayman Capital sold off ASML simply because we are not optimistic about ASML's future."

The reporter asked excitedly as if he had heard big news:

"Are you not optimistic about the development of F2 lasers?"

"Yes, I am more familiar with the latest immersion theory published by Lin Benjian. Schmidt's development of F2 lasers is fundamentally in the wrong direction."

This did not allow Robert to escape the trouble of public opinion, but made people in the industry laugh even harder.

Because most manufacturers in the market focus on deep ultraviolet and F2 lasers in the development of lithography light sources, everyone thinks that as long as they continue to develop, they will get a big breakthrough sooner or later.

But Robert, a financial person, actually came to say that F2 lasers are fundamentally in the wrong direction.

How could everyone not laugh at him.

So immediately some experts jumped out and laughed at Robert for knowing nothing about micro-optics.

The immersion theory, which originally did not cause any waves, has once again attracted criticism.

These experts and scholars were quite polite to Robert, but they were full of firepower towards Lin Benjian, and some even hoped to drive this pagan out of the Optical Association.

The American people, the Sakura Island people, and the Dutch people all stood up to accuse Lin Benjian of being a troublemaker, and the industry consensus was that immersion was a heresy.

Some experts even wrote to Wang Lei, hoping that Wang Lei would completely give up investing in Lin Benjian's R&D team.

Seeing these letters, Lin Benjian's face turned black.

"Boss, the immersion method is the best solution to the wavelength problem, you..."

"Of course I believe in you, otherwise I wouldn't have invested so much money, I'll just treat these letters as a joke.

I hope you will continue to work hard, put the immersion method into use as soon as possible, and develop a new generation of lithography machines."

"Thank you for your trust, boss. We have made great breakthroughs in R&D. It won't take long for us to prove that we are right."

Perhaps because he was getting closer and closer to success, Lin Benjian became more and more confident.

"Very good, I have asked people to do all the patent registrations in advance. In the future, if they want to use immersion, they can't bypass our Peninsula Technology."

When they thought of this, both of them were in a good mood.

No matter how you mock now, there will always be a day when you bow your head in front of more advanced technology.

Lin Benjian was also very happy, because he didn't have to spend energy to convince Wang Lei to trust him, and he didn't have to spend his breath to ask manufacturers to provide him with machines for research and development.

Not to mention worrying about research and development funds, Peninsula Technology has almost never blocked his investment.

It can be said that he always responds to requests, and this kind of trust is something that the boss of IBM can't give him.

He also realized the boasts he had made one by one, and really achieved a 100-fold return.

This kind of gratitude is very good, and the welfare benefits of Peninsula Technology are not ordinary. He and his wife are very happy, so he decisively rejected TSMC's invitation.

After sending a few lawyers' letters, the unhappy Robert finallyFinally, he could focus all his energy on the acquisition. Lindgren and his younger brother Bobby, who were summoned, came to the headquarters of Cayman Capital, surrounded by a large group of staff. Bobby had also seen the world, but he was also stunned when he saw the building of Cayman Capital. This building that towers into the sky is a beautiful landscape on Wall Street. "Boss, what do you think Robert summoned us for?" Lindgren did not hide it from him and told him his guess: "It is likely that he hopes that Husky will start mergers and acquisitions." Bobby nodded in agreement. Due to the impact of the East China financial crisis and the outbreak of another oil price war, the price of oil began to fall rapidly in 1997. The oil price, which had been raised with great effort, fell again to more than 20 US dollars per barrel. If it continues to fall like this, it is very likely to fall to 10 US dollars per barrel. Every industry has its own peak and trough, and the oil industry is now in this trough.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the past two years have been a cold winter for the oil industry.

From the financial reports released by major oil companies, it can be seen that the revenue of all oil companies has not met expectations, and many companies have suffered large-scale losses for the first time since 1990.

Husky's revenue is not optimistic either. Affected by the financial crisis and the double negative BUFF of the price war, the total revenue in 1997 fell to US$61.8 billion, a 30% decline from the previous year.

The performance of oil giants is bleak, and there is no need to describe the days of many small oil companies.

Moreover, the entire industry is very pessimistic, thinking that this wave of impact may continue until the new century.

Many small oil companies are ready to go bankrupt.

However, this cold winter period is a rare opportunity for large groups like Husky.

With Cayman Capital as a support, they don't have to worry about cash flow at all.