There are so many forces attending this meeting, and it is impossible for them to be completely aligned with the Lee Consortium and the Japanese Consortium. There are always some people here who are willing to be vassals of the American consortium, so much so that the content of their meeting has not been over yet.
It has already reached the ears of the American consortium.
While Li Guangyu and others were resting, the United States was also making arrangements for major stock markets in Asia, preparing for a head-to-head competition with the Japanese consortium and the Lee consortium in the last few days.
On Tuesday morning, the stock markets of South Korea, Japan, and Indonesia, which were the first to open, immediately rebounded. Good news continued to come out from the outside world, giving investors and some investment institutions everywhere full confidence in the economy in the coming period.
Subsequently, the opening of trading in Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Singapore also continued this good momentum. The Hang Seng Index once again returned to the position of 2,900 points and moved towards 3,000 points. After that, the Thai stock market also rose sharply at the opening, and the stock markets throughout East Asia and Southeast Asia rebounded overall.
At this time, in the investment department of Citibank in Hong Kong, many representatives of American hot money were discussing the layout of the Hong Kong Exchange.
Schroeder Elson, head of Merrill Lynch Hong Kong, said: "Swat, in addition to the funds invested in Japan and Singapore, the Lee Group has once again invested 10 billion US dollars in Malaysia and Thailand. I believe that Lee
Even if the consortium still has funds, it will definitely not be too much. Why is Citigroup still unwilling to take action at this time? You are violating the mutual agreement at the headquarters."
Now Merrill Lynch is really anxious and angry. The Japanese stock market is very huge, so the California consortium and its allies invest the most in it. If the Nikkei Index rebounds, not only will their work in the past few months be in vain, but they will also lose money.
A lot of money.
Now the financial center of Asia is in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong stock market directly affects the stock markets in various parts of Asia, especially the stock markets in East Asia and Southeast Asia. As the main market maker of the Hong Kong stock market, the Li Group is rushing to support the stock markets in various parts of Asia. Compared with other stock markets, the Hong Kong stock market is now
The easiest to capture.
The stock markets in several other regions have financial support from the Nippon Consortium and the Lee Consortium. In addition, due to the small capacity of the stock market, they have no good way to suppress the local stock index, let alone cause panic among investors and investment institutions in various places.
If they still want to make a comeback, there is only one way, and that is to cause the Hong Kong stock market to suffer heavy losses and the Hang Seng Index to plummet.
If the funds are returned, the stock markets in various places will inevitably plummet, and they will be able to earn enough profits from various places.
As for Xiangjiang, forget about it. After their failure in July, they have not planned to attack the Xiangjiang stock market this time, so they have not shorted many Hang Seng Index futures orders at all. They do not have many short positions on the Xiangjiang Exchange.
Profits can be collected.
This time it was a completely helpless choice. They did not expect that the Li Group would be so tough this time. Even though they knew they were behind the plan, they would still jump out and become their enemies.
Even though the Japanese Consortium and the Lee Consortium competed fiercely in multiple industries such as retail, home appliances, and electronics, the Lee Consortium still joined forces with the Japanese Consortium, launched a large-scale sniper attack on them, and expanded the battlefield to Southeast Asia.
various stock markets.
As the person in charge of Citibank Hong Kong and the person in charge of the Asian region of Citigroup's operation, Jefferson Swart is not too anxious now. Citigroup basically did not take action in Asia this time. Even if the Asian operation failed this time,
They won't have much to lose either.
After the heads of Merrill Lynch, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland and other consortiums spoke, he said: "Everyone, your major consortiums must have information about the Lee Consortium, and they also have dedicated research groups for the Lee Consortium.
Is your assessment of the funds of the Li Group really accurate? Do you think the Li Group or Li Guangyu is the kind of person who is unprepared for the Hong Kong stock market?
Do you think Li Guangyu naively thinks that the contents of yesterday's meeting can be kept secret? Believe it or not, if we act now, it will have no effect at all. I can tell you clearly that if we just follow the stock market rules this time, it will already have an effect.
It has no effect. I believe you all know what is going on with this global financial crisis.
But Asia has indeed been the fastest growing region in recent years, and their economy does not have big problems at all. Now, whether it is Japan, South Korea, Greater China, or ASEAN countries, the economic growth rate is very fast, and there is no economic weakness at all.
explain.
As long as there are a few major consortiums to protect the market, some hot money and investment institutions in other regions will not sell it, and major listed companies will buy back their own shares. From a financial perspective, our operation has failed."
The heads of Merrill Lynch, Chicago and other consortiums in Xiangjiang are obviously not willing to give up. Giving up like this is definitely not what they want to see.
You must know that Rockefeller, Morgan, DuPont, Mellon and other consortiums are making great progress in Western Europe, but the stock market there has not rebounded much at all, allowing them to achieve the purpose of this operation and also reap huge benefits.
However, these consortiums are facing such a situation in Asia, which makes people doubt that a single family-based consortium is obviously better than a joint consortium. This is a considerable blow to these joint consortiums.
Nowadays, whether in the United States or Japan, and now in Hong Kong, family-controlled conglomerates are the most powerful. In the United States, there are Rockefeller and Morgan, in Japan the four major families of Mitsui, Iwasaki, Sumitomo, and Yasuda, and in Hong Kong, the Li family consortium. If things go on like this,
, these joint consortiums are likely to fall apart and return to family-based consortiums.
The division of the U.S. operation this time is also quite interesting. A consortium dominated by a single family is responsible for the stock markets in Western Europe and Canada, and a consortium dominated by a joint family is responsible for the stock markets in Asia and Australia.
Schroeder Elson spoke up and said: "Svart, you are so sure that the Lee Consortium will not do the opposite. Now the Lee Consortium has invested more than 5 billion US dollars in the Japanese stock market. In Singapore,
There is also more than 3 billion US dollars, plus the 10 billion US dollars to support Malaysia and Thailand, this is 20 billion US dollars.
In addition to protecting the Hong Kong stock market, the Li Group has allocated at least nearly 30 billion U.S. dollars. This is all cash. How much reserve funds do you think the Li Group has?
If nothing else, Swat, let me ask you Citi, whether Citi can come up with $30 billion in cash without using customers' funds."
Faced with Elson's question, Swart really couldn't answer. If they didn't use customer funds, how could Citigroup have such strong reserve funds? Citigroup's expansion was all done with customer money, and their own capital reserves were very large.
less.
But he also had a reason to fight back. He said aloud: "Since you know that we can use customer funds, don't you think Li Guangyu can't? You must know that Tianyu Bank is a bank wholly owned by the Li Group, and they will use it more than us.
Relax, we need to make a comeback now and we need to recruit outside the market to make other forces and investors feel that these areas are no longer safe."
Swat's words completely aroused the interest of those present. Now they can't control so much. No matter what means, as long as they can reap the benefits.
Li Guangyu is still in the Tianyu Investment Department, paying close attention to the trends of stock markets in various places. He has also been guarding against the attacks of American consortiums on the stock market.
He had no idea that some people in the American consortium were simply not willing to play according to the rules of the stock market, and would take some special measures to cause hot money and investment institutions from all parties and even investors from all over the country to lose confidence in East and Southeast Asia.