The Son of Finance of the Great Age

  Chapter 529 Prince Faisal

The sudden news made Zhang Hua's face change immediately. When he looked at Zhong Shi again, he found that his face was also full of astonishment, but this expression didn't last long, and the astonishment turned into a frown meditation.

"Is the negotiation completely broken down now?" Zhang Hua did not rashly interrupt Zhong Shi's thinking, and stood quietly outside the door, watching Stanley's negotiating team file out of the negotiating room, and politely chatted with his own personnel. When he shook hands and bid farewell, he knew that the negotiation might really be over. If it was the other party's negotiating tricks, there might be no need to evacuate across the board.

   At that moment, Zhang Hua regretted it a little. He felt that he was too conservative and should increase the offer moderately. However, since the other party did not intend to sell the bonds, he felt a sense of relief, because this was the first time he had operated such a huge amount of funds, and the pressure on him was undoubtedly huge and heavy. It's just that behind the ease, he still has an indescribable sense of loss. After all, such a large-scale trading opportunity is really rare.

   Soon these negative emotions were completely driven out of Zhang Hua's mind, because what people living in this market need most is rationality, not emotion. It wasn't until this time that he suddenly came to his senses. Just now, Zhong Shi had only been in a trance for a moment, and he quickly adjusted his emotions. This kind of professionalism was much better than him.

   "Zhong Sheng, what's going on?"

  Besides secretly admiring him, Zhang Hua also raised his opinion of Zhong Shi quietly. He is a person who is good at self-reflection.

"What could be going on?" This clock stone had already thought about the cause and effect of the matter, and then smiled slightly, his expression slowed down, "What else is possible? It is nothing more than another financial group proposed The intention to buy, our quotation is too far from theirs. And the reason, maybe the Fed has really injected liquidity into the market.”

"Then we..." The emotions that had been suppressed with great difficulty suddenly became uncontrollable, and Zhang Hua immediately became anxious, but after seeing Zhong Shi's understatement, the anxiety in his heart suddenly disappeared. Fly away, this emotional change made him very surprised, Zhong Shi's influence has reached such a degree without knowing it.

"Us?" Zhong Shi turned his head in doubt, with a puzzled expression on his face, but seeing Zhang Hua's hesitation to speak, his brows quickly relaxed, and then he grinned, showing his white teeth, "We , of course, is to wait and see. I also said before, do you think the Fed can reverse the current situation? If so, it is too naive."

   Regarding Zhong Shi's point of view, Zhang Hua remained silent. He really had nothing to say. But deep down in his heart, he is still a little unconvinced, but all these debates are meaningless, so let the market test it.

  …

  As Zhong Shi guessed, the Federal Reserve has indeed begun to inject liquidity into the market. Careful traders have discovered that the price of long-term treasury bonds in the market has risen slightly, and at the same time there has been a significant increase in the Fed's rediscount market. After a period of continuous observation, the market believes that these actions are due to Operate in the market to release liquidity.

Soon, rumors that the Federal Reserve may cut interest rates began to spread everywhere, because the U.S. economy showed signs of weak growth in the second quarter due to the downturn in the real estate market. The number of unemployed people has increased significantly, all of which indicate that there are certain problems in the US economy. Under such circumstances, the higher interest rate policy implemented for the purpose of curbing inflation urgently needs to be changed, and interest rate cuts are just one of the possible actions judged by the market.

Under such circumstances, the bond market is naturally impacted by this expectation. Although the interest rate cut has not yet become a reality, out of the optimistic judgment of the future, the prices of both national and corporate bonds have risen to a certain extent. The magnitude is only negligible. As for the real estate market that the market is most concerned about, the liquidity of various financial institutions has been supplemented to a certain extent due to the injection of funds from the Federal Reserve. In addition, Greenspan has paid close attention to this issue, so the market has begun to be relatively optimistic. judgment.

  Although the tension was relieved for a while, Stanley's top management still dare not relax. After all, their positions are too large. If they can't be dealt with as soon as possible, it is very likely to become a time bomb. Therefore, when the Saudi Petroleum Fund reported a number, they decided to contact the other party after urgent consultations, and completely gave up their plan to cheat Zhongshi, because the difference between the other party's quotation and the Arab's quotation was too great.

   Despite Soros's vehement opposition, it didn't help at all. Stanley's top executives even made it clear that if they insist on selling to Zhongshi, the price difference will be made up by Quantum Fund.

  As soon as Soros heard that he was going to take on such a responsibility, Soros immediately shut his mouth wisely. Although the pit stalactite is very important, it is absolutely impossible for him to pay for this part of the price difference.

  There was a scene where the Stanley team that was in contact with the Zhongshi team suddenly withdrew, and soon they turned to contact the Arabs.

  …

  Faisal Duben Aziz Abdullah Rahman Saud is an offshoot prince of the Saudi royal family. Although there are only three generations of the Saudi royal family at present, with the strong reproductive ability, there are at least thousands of people who currently have the title of prince. Many princes do not have the right to inherit, and it is even impossible to hold a national position, so although many of them bear the title of prince, they are actually just ordinary people who get a fixed salary every month.

Feisal is the third-generation prince, the thirteenth son born to the twenty-seventh son of the first-generation king. This sort of order is basically doomed within the royal family to never have the possibility of inheriting the throne for the rest of his life. , and because of his useless father, there is no possibility of entering the government, so if he does not want to "be lost in the crowd", Faisal has only one way to go, and that is to enter the business world.

   While studying in the United States, Faisal began to show amazing business talent. He used the capital of 20,000 U.S. dollars given to him by his father to start his own business and venture into his own business empire. Later, by buying land, he successfully became the top richest man in the empire. Then he started to get involved in the banking industry and invested heavily in the US stock market, and many times the performance of these stocks also reflected his vision, among which Citibank was regarded as a milestone representative of his investment career.

  In 1990, Citigroup was required by the Federal Reserve to pay a margin because of a failure in investing in real estate. Because of the huge amount of funds needed, Citigroup could not find suitable investors for a while. While taking advantage of the decline in the stock price of Citibank, Faisal directly wrote a check of 200 million U.S. dollars and bought the common stock of Citibank at a low price. After the following year, he bought the preferred stock of Citibank at a price of 600 million U.S. dollars. , and converted into common shares in the following year, after these two increases in holdings, he successfully controlled 14.9% of Citibank's shares.

  After Citigroup's crisis was resolved, the prices of these stocks suddenly skyrocketed, and Faisal became the biggest winner. Not only did he gain favor from Citigroup, but he also made a lot of money.

   It can be said that this guy is not inferior to Zhong Shi in terms of legendary experience or personal wealth, and his wealth is far better than Zhong Shi. Therefore, in Stanley's view, the possibility of this client finally reaching a deal is much greater than that of Zhongshi.

   Faisal, who has a typical Arab man's face, would be hard to associate with maturity and shrewdness if he hadn't grown a beard. There is no other reason, this guy's facial features are too delicate, thick ink-like eyebrows, deep eyes, high nose bridge, and thin lips, everything is so delicate. If you don't wear a turban and headband, wearing a robe and cape, it is enough to be a model.

   But having said that, even if the prince is beautiful enough to be a model, he must have scoffed at it. How could such a lowly job be worthy of his noble status?

The meeting was arranged at the Bakarot Hotel in Midtown. This is a new hotel that has not been established for five years. The magnificent decoration style is very suitable for the Arab aesthetic concept. Therefore, many distinguished guests from Arabia come to New York. In this hotel.

   It's just that the 13th and 14th floors of the Baccarot Hotel today can't be accommodated because they are completely booked. As a luxury hotel, the average price is 7,000 US dollars per night, and this figure does not include the presidential suite on the top floor. But in front of Prince Faisal who spends money like water, these are not problems.

In the conference room, the negotiators of both parties began to discuss the details nervously. The experts analyzed various materials and gave professional opinions. This part may take more than three to five days. Basically, the repetitions are with the Zhongshi team. There will be no clue about the work done before, so Richard Graham and Feisal came out and chatted a few words by the way.

   "Your Highness, your vision is really good. I have to say that our bond market prospects are very good. If you take over, the future income will definitely be so rich that you will be satisfied."

  After serving a cup of coffee with his own hands, Richard kissed an untimely little fart.

  Regarding his overture, Prince Faisal just smiled, took a sip of coffee, and did not speak. In Saudi Arabia, there are too many sycophants like Richard, so he can only respond with a smile to Richard's behavior.

Seeing that his flattery didn't work, Richard rolled his eyes and turned the topic to the other side, "Frankly speaking, we had contacted a consortium before you. But after knowing your understanding of this group After the bond was interested, we immediately suspended the negotiation with the other party and gave priority to you, after all, people like you are more qualified to do such a large-scale transaction with us."

   "Really?" Prince Faisal finally spoke. He put down his coffee cup and looked at Richard with a smile to see what he could say. And in his heart, he had attributed the other party's behavior to a kind of bargaining method, so even though he was facing him, with an appearance of listening attentively, he didn't take it seriously in his heart.

"A consortium from Hong Kong is said to be very strong." The corner of Richard's mouth curled up, showing his disdain, "But although the boss of the consortium looks young, he is very conservative. The prices are very low. After the Federal Reserve conducted market operations, we decisively suspended the negotiations with them. It seems that this consortium is nothing more than that, it’s just exaggerating, and the guy who lost money has a great reputation on Wall Street!"

   "From Hong Kong?" Prince Feisal's complexion changed slightly, and his eyes immediately burst into light, but he lowered his head at the right time, pretending to fetch a coffee cup, and concealed everything well. When he raised his head again, all emotions disappeared from his face, and he still had a smiling and harmless appearance.

  (end of this chapter)