With less than an hour left before the stock market closed, Puisi dragged his tired body back to his office. This HSBC meeting seemed very lengthy, but this HSBC high-level meeting was also the same as before.
There is a slight difference. Almost every time a decision is made, there will be a secretary who records the contents of the meeting and conveys their resolutions.
Increase the holding of a certain stock, reduce the holding of a certain stock, help a certain enterprise, or evaluate whether a certain cooperative enterprise cannot continue to develop...
At the same time, there is a person in the conference room who reports on the situation of the Xiangjiang stock market at any time.
John Bao returned to his office with Puwais. After the two sat down,
"The matter is finally over. If it is as discussed at the meeting that this stock market crash will not last that long, we still have to hurry up and make arrangements for Standard Chartered Bank and the Press Association!" Puisi said.
John Bao nodded and said: "Yes, but today's stock market is scary enough. There is still one hour left before the market closes, and the drop has reached 580 points, which is almost the same as the last stock market crash!"
Pulaus showed a rare smile and said: "This is just an opportunity. When we just had the meeting, I was already thinking that we can use this stock market crash to enter the market when Standard Chartered Bank and the shareholders of the newspaper group suffered serious losses.
market, this way we can minimize our acquisition costs!”
John Bao also smiled and said: "Actually, I have to thank Wu Jianye for this. If he hadn't announced the end of cooperation with several major newspaper groups, how could the stock prices of those newspaper groups have fallen so seriously!"
Shopping malls are like battlefields. Although HSBC currently has cooperative relationships with several major newspaper groups, the lower the stock prices of these major newspaper groups, the lower the price for them to enter the market to acquire equity. Since it is certain that this stock market crash will not
It's just a short-term behavior that will last too long.
Then Puisi will no longer choose to wait and see!
"Tell Hu Ran and others that HSBC will enter the market tomorrow!" Puisi said.
In fact, according to Puisi's idea, he would enter the market today and take advantage of the last hour to buy up the equity of several major newspaper groups. However, HSBC is a super bank after all, and although Puisi is a taipan, but
It’s not without restrictions. Tomorrow is the earliest time to go through all the procedures.
John Bao smiled and said: "I understand, I believe they have been waiting very anxiously!"
Puisi smiled and said, the more anxious they are, the more welcome HSBC’s entry will be to them!
Then Puisi called his secretary.
"Bring in Ryan Henderson!" Puis said, rubbing his forehead.
Puisi's secretary said with some anxiety: "Mr. Ryan Henderson left ten minutes ago!"
Puisi was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why?"
"Sir, you'd better read the news!"
Pu Wei Shi looked at his secretary's unnatural expression, his heart sank slightly, and said: "Turn on the TV!"
The secretary turned on the TV and dialed the ATV financial channel!
After ATV was upgraded to satellite TV, it is no longer a separate TV station. Now it has been divided into ATV Gold Channel, which is ATV's first comprehensive channel, equivalent to CCTV, followed by ATV Finance and ATV Sports.
, ATV English, ATV movie and TV four major channels.
On the TV, the host of ATV was sitting there, telling the news.
“This station has just received news that Yuzhi Investment has reached an agreement with the major shareholders of Standard Chartered Bank and will acquire the equity of Standard Chartered Bank from Standard Chartered Bank shareholders at a premium of 20%. At the same time, our station also received news that Yuzhi Investment will
A press conference will be held tomorrow to announce the news. At the same time, Yuzhi Investment has officially submitted an application to the Hong Kong Mergers and Acquisitions Committee, and will apply to fully acquire the remaining shares of Standard Chartered Bank in the near future, and also file a delisting application!"
Like being struck by lightning!
Puisi sat there, unable to calm down for a long time.
But then Buvis yelled: "Contact Ryan Henderson immediately!"
Not long after, Ryan Henderson's phone number was dialed.
"What's going on over there?" Puisi yelled.
"Didn't you see the news? Yuzhi Investment took advantage of today's stock market crash to contact many shareholders of Standard Chartered Bank and bought shares of Standard Chartered Bank from them. When I went to find you, they were almost ready to reach an agreement.
, when your HSBC senior management had a meeting, they signed, and then I received a call from Yan Wen. At that time, they already held 71.59% of the shares of Standard Chartered Bank. It makes no sense to do anything else at this time!"
Ryan Henderson's tone was filled with complaints and a hint of helplessness. The timing of Yu Zhi's investment choice was great. At this time, people in the Xiangjiang stock market were in panic. No one knew what would happen tomorrow. Thinking of receiving the call from Yan Wen,
During the phone call, what the other party brought up made him even more helpless and frightened!
"Why is it meaningless? As long as you don't agree to sell your shares in Standard Chartered Bank, they will not be able to fully acquire Standard Chartered Bank. At the same time, the shares in your hands will be sold and return to the critical point of 35%!" Pu Weishi said.
Last effort!
Ryan Henderson said helplessly: "There is news, which has not been reported in the news, that is, Standard Chartered Bank has opened up relations with the British side. After Yuzhi Investment fully acquires Standard Chartered Bank, it will transfer the registered address of Standard Chartered Bank to
Moving to Xiangjiang is also a strategy of Yu Zhi Investment. If I don't agree to sell my shares of Standard Chartered Bank, they will announce this decision in advance. At this time, most of the shares of Standard Chartered Bank are in the hands of Yu Zhi Investment.
There is no way to object."
For this reason, Puisi has also understood that the current situation in Hong Kong is unstable. If Standard Chartered Bank moves to Hong Kong, many shareholders will panic. The reason why Yuzhi Investment did not announce this decision before is that
In order to use this trick against Ryan Henderson, Ryan Henderson obviously does not have much confidence in Xiangjiang's future, so now he is frustrated!
After hanging up the phone, Puisi fell into silence...
John Bao was listening to the whole conversation. At this time, his face was not good-looking, and he also thought of another meaning.
"If Standard Chartered Bank moves to Hong Kong, then Standard Chartered Bank's status in Hong Kong will be different!"
The reason why Standard Chartered Bank did not keep up with HSBC in its initial development was because HSBC was registered in Hong Kong, while Standard Chartered Bank was registered in England.
HSBC is rooted in Xiangjiang and has captured the wave of development of Chinese-owned enterprises. It has defeated all banks and has become the largest banking consortium in Xiangjiang.
Now that the return of Hong Kong is getting closer, many companies are skeptical about the future of Hong Kong and have chosen to move away from Hong Kong. At this time, if Standard Chartered Bank chooses to move its registered place to Hong Kong, then for ordinary
It will be a shot in the arm for the citizens of Xiangjiang, and the status of Standard Chartered Bank will also rise accordingly!
"We must find a way to stop this!" Puisi said!
John Bao said in a deep voice: "How to stop it?"
He also knew that it needed to be stopped, but how to stop it was the key to the problem.
"Activate our relationship in England, first find out what kind of relationship Yuzhi Investment has, and at the same time contact our related companies, I want to cause a run on Standard Chartered Bank!" Puisi said coldly.
John Bao felt confused and asked: "A run trend? It's not easy to make a run trend happen on Standard Chartered Bank!"
Pulau Weiss: "It's not easy but it has to be done. Hong Kong must be HSBC's Hong Kong!"
HSBC can support many companies, but under the premise of all this, HSBC must be the largest banking group in Hong Kong. If anyone dares to challenge the authority of HSBC, then the shell of HSBC's goodwill will be taken off by them.
John Bao said: "I understand!"
At this time, the phone in Puisi's office rang again. The ringtone of the phone seemed to be able to tell the owner the importance of what the caller wanted to say. Although they all had the same ringtone, the ringtone sounded just like that at this time.
Irritability and anxiety.
"Hello, who?" Puisi pressed the speakerphone, his voice seemed a little impatient.
"Mr. Puisi, what's wrong, a large amount of money suddenly appeared in the stock market just now and took away all the stocks quoted by our major groups!" Hu Ran's anxious and panicked voice came out on the phone!
"What!"
Puisi felt that everything was not going well for him today. Just the day before, he thought everything was under control, but in just one hour, everything seemed to be developing in the opposite direction.
"Just now, a large amount of money appeared in the stock market and took away all the shares of all our groups!" Hu Ran repeated again.
Pu Weishi and John Bao looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes!
"Yiwang Group!" the two said at the same time.
Hu Ran was on the other end of the phone and asked urgently: "What?"
"The other party is the Yiwang Group!" Pu Weishi shouted!
Who else is there besides Yiwang Group at this time?
"How many shares did they take away?" I got it from John Bao.
"It is estimated that each group has bought at least 20% of the equity, and they are still buying at this time. We can't compete with each other at all!" Hu Ran said.
At this time, Hu Ran and others were also completely panicked, because they did not necessarily hold these shares themselves. If this rate continues, I believe that by the time the market closes today, the largest shareholder of their group will be replaced!
And the most important thing is that the other party is Yiwang Group. If Yiwang Group becomes the largest shareholder of several major newspaper groups, then the fate of Hu Ran and others is self-evident.
Puisi immediately said: "Immediately contact the major shareholders of your group and tell us that our HSBC money will arrive tomorrow and we can take over their shares, as long as they do not sell their shares to Yiwang Group!"
At this time, we must stabilize the major shareholders of the group, otherwise when the other party contacts Yiwang Group, HSBC will be completely defeated in this duel with Yiwang and Yaoguang Group. This is in HSBC
This is something that has never happened before in history. If this matter is disclosed, it will have a huge impact on HSBC.
Prestige is invisible and intangible, but it does exist. It may take decades to establish it, but it may take just one day to destroy it!
HSBC must maintain its prestige!
In fact, HSBC has another way to deal with the Yiwang Group, which is to unite with the Hong Kong government to suppress the Yiwang Group and the Yaoguang Group. Now Wu Jianye's status in the Yaoguang Group and the Yiwang Group has been determined, and Wu Jianye
His special status will inevitably make him less popular with the Hong Kong government.
But at the beginning, the Hong Kong government had scruples, because both Yaoguang Group and Yiwang Group had already become giants. This was not the Hong Kong of the 1950s and 1960s. The Hong Kong government wanted to deal with Yaoguang Group.
With Yiwang Group, the entire economy of Hong Kong will suffer a major earthquake, which will definitely be a disaster for the Hong Kong government.
Now Wu Jianye has almost controlled the entire media industry in Hong Kong. When they usually work independently, they may be able to let the Hong Kong government ravage them, but now the entire media industry in Hong Kong is in Wu Jianye's hands. At this time,
If you want to unite the Hong Kong government to deal with Wu Jianye, the power of the media will be enough to make the Hong Kong government drink a pot. Maybe before anything happens to Yiwang and Yao Guang, the Hong Kong government will be in chaos!
One step too late, every step too late...
Ten minutes later, Puisi received a call from Hu Ran again. The loneliness in his voice made Puisi feel heartbroken.
"We have contacted several major shareholders of the group, and some of them have sold their shares to Yiwang Group. Now the Yiwang Group holds the least shares in Master Jin's "Ming Pao", but it has also reached
We lost 31% of the equity..."
Yes!
Several major newspaper groups failed!
And there is no way to defeat. Everything seems to have been arranged in advance. Ever since there was a problem in the stock market yesterday, it is as if there is an invisible big hand controlling everything. Everything they thought was perfect has been
In front of that big hand, it looked like it was riddled with holes.
Hu Ran and others still can't understand that many of the major shareholders in the group were partners when their father was still around. The relationship between the two parties has always been good, and some are even their own family members. But how could they possibly transfer the money in their hands?
What about selling the shares to Wu Jianye?
In fact, this is just that they don’t want to understand. After all, Xiangjiang is a capital society. Although the shares of several major newspaper groups are in the hands of these shareholders, these shareholders also have their own businesses. Who does business in Xiangjiang and does not want loans?
, and the shares in their hands are the best collateral.
When the market is in a bull market, naturally there is no problem, but once the stock market enters a bear market, the shares they mortgaged are their talisman. They need a large amount of funds to cover or close their positions to make up for their losses. Before that,
The stock prices of several major newspaper groups have almost fallen the most among Hong Kong companies due to the joint blockade of Yiwang and Yaoguang.
In order to avoid risks, banks will definitely target these shares. Now that Yiwang Group has appeared and offered to acquire their shares at a premium, will they still wait?
Friendship and family affection will appear extremely fragile at this time...
"Where did Wu Jianye get so much cash?"
At this time, this problem was entangled in Pu Wei's head. He couldn't understand why he had fully acquired Standard Chartered Bank and now acquired the equity of several major newspaper groups at a premium.
The cash involved will exceed 10 billion Hong Kong dollars!
What he didn't know was that when Wu Jianye decided to take action, Yiwang Group's cash reserves had already reached an astonishing level. Don't forget, before that, Yuzhi Investment had already begun to cash out funds from the rb market.
It was precisely with the funds to cash out in the rb market that Wu Jianye completed this series of operations without even using Yaoguang Group's cash reserves!
This day is the darkest day in history for HSBC and all newspapers in Hong Kong.
ATV will also officially start broadcasting "The Legend of White Snake" tonight!