The farce was thought to be over, and even Li Jianhui was prepared to hold Wharf shares for a long time.
On February 27, the Hong Kong stock market was in turmoil again, and a huge amount of funds began to sweep across the Jardine Matheson listed companies in the stock market. Whether it was Wharf, Jardine Matheson Land, or the core group Jardine Matheson Holdings, they were all acquired.
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Its strong strength and huge momentum have attracted the attention of the entire Hong Kong financial community.
You must know that Jardine Matheson is currently a behemoth in Hong Kong, the first of the four major foreign banks, with assets of nearly 10 billion Hong Kong dollars in Xiangjiang alone.
And now there is a force that is directly attacking the largest group in Xiangjiang. How can this not shock all parties?
In the office of the chairman of the board of directors of Jardine Matheson Holdings Group, Nubigian, as the helmsman of the Jardine Matheson Group, now feels very headache.
We had just repelled a wave of opponents who were preparing to attack Wharf, but before it had completely subsided, suddenly there was another force attacking all the industries of the Jardine Group in the stock market.
Jardine has been expanding rapidly in the past two years and has many industries, but it does not have much liquidity.
The previous repurchase of Wharf shares in the stock market has almost used up the available liquidity of the Jardine Group.
Now it is not a small Wharf. Jardine Holdings, Jardine Land and Wharf are facing attacks at the same time. If you want to avoid being acquired by others, it will be difficult to defend it with only the internal funds of Jardine.
Furious, Nubigian couldn't possibly watch its businesses being acquired by rivals. He immediately called Shen Bi, the chief executive in Xiangjiang, hoping that HSBC could provide an emergency loan to Standard Chartered.
I don’t know what happened, but HSBC, which had always cooperated well in the past, responded very slowly this time. Such a big thing happened in Xiangjiang, and Shen Bi was not in the office.
As a result, Nubigian not only failed to contact Shen Bi, but also did not know where Shen Bi was. With no other choice, he immediately contacted Standard Chartered Bank's chief executive, Peake Wilt.
Fortunately, he was not disappointed here. Standard Chartered was willing to provide Jardine with a loan of HK$1 billion as long as Jardine had a mortgage.
With the support of Standard Chartered, Newbikin has strengthened its back a lot and directly ordered its staff to buy back the stocks of several Jardine Matheson companies at the same time.
He also announced to the outside world that no matter who is at odds with Jardine, it is impossible to acquire a Jardine company on the stock market. Jardine has the confidence and strength to defend its own business.
Compared with the previous Wharf, many investors have become more awake this time and have not blindly followed the trend to buy shares of several major listed companies in the Jardine Matheson family to avoid repeating the mistakes of Wharf.
However, there is no shortage of risk-takers in the stock market, and there are still many securities investment companies and retail investors joining in, hoping to take this opportunity to make a fortune.
Xinjian Investment Company also participated here. This time they acquired the Wharf again, and 15 million Hong Kong dollars were poured into it again.
According to the analysis of Li Zhengwei and Zhou Pengfei, although the forces involved in this attack are targeting several Jardine companies at the same time, the target is still Wharf.
Whether it is Jardine Holdings or Jardine Land, the market value of these two groups exceeds HK$3 billion, which cannot be shaken by ordinary forces.
As for why the people who took action targeted Jardine and other companies at the same time, they analyzed that the main reason was to distract Jardine.
In the Jardine Group, Jardine Holdings and Jardine Land are the focus. Although Wharf is also good, its role is less valuable than the other two.
Li Jianhui also supports the opinions of these two people. This time he will see if it is the big boss who is taking action. Even if this time it is like last time, it is a stock market expert who comes to make money, he is ready to do something big.
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Jardine Matheson currently controls 29.6% of Wharf's shares, and Wharf's current market value is more than HK$1.7 billion.
Even if he works slowly, he will eat up this company within two years.
As for the layout of the gold futures market, he can use Wharf shares to borrow money, but it will only cost a little more interest, which is nothing compared to the income.
In the office of the chairman of the board of directors of Global Shipping Group, Bao Yugang is also making arrangements intensively. He will not give up until he takes action and does not achieve his goal.
Wharf's opening price per share this morning has dropped to HK$18.2, which is already lower than the actual market value of Wharf. Moreover, there are not many short sellers at low prices, and the stock price has almost stabilized.
At this time, Bao Yugang was naturally unwilling to wait any longer. He knew that if he did not take advantage of this opportunity to enter the market, the cost of acquiring Wharf in the future would be several times that of this time, and he might not even have the chance.
Therefore, on this day, he launched a long-planned plan and prepared a full billion Hong Kong dollars, which can be said to be a sure win for Wharf.
Nubigian was also full of confidence at this time. With the support of Standard Chartered Bank, he did not believe that anyone could snatch a Jardine Matheson company from him.
You must know that in Xiangjiang, Yihe is the undisputed number one group and the leader of the four major foreign banks. That is not just talk.
This time he had inquired, and found out that it was not several other foreign banks that were taking action against Jardine, but a certain Chinese family that was up to something, or even multiple Chinese families who jointly wanted to target Jardine.
He has discussed with Standard Chartered and obtained a promise from Standard Chartered Bank Chief Executive Officer Wilt that Standard Chartered Bank will review the use of large loans to Chinese-owned families and will not grant loans temporarily if they are used for the stock market.
As for HSBC, he is also planning to discuss it with Shen Bi after he comes back to ensure that HSBC is also on his side.
When the time comes, with two major banks behind him, he is really not afraid of these Chinese-funded families.
For hundreds of years in Hong Kong, the four major foreign companies have been at their peak. They are the only ones acquiring Chinese-owned companies. When will it be the turn of the Chinese-owned families to acquire the companies in their hands?
This time he planned to teach these Chinese-owned families a lesson and let them know that the Jardine family was not something they could attack.
It's a pity that despite all his calculations, he didn't expect that this guy Shen Bi would actually side with the Huazi family.
This time, the charter king had a share of the funds in his hands thanks to HSBC. Otherwise, the charter king would not have been able to come up with one billion Hong Kong dollars in cash in a short period of time.
Therefore, he was destined to wait in vain today. Shen Bi did not return to the HSBC headquarters until he got off work in the afternoon.
At the same time, Newbikin also underestimated the charter king's connections. On the afternoon of that day, many Chinese-owned helmsmen in Xiangjiang received invitations from the charter king to attend a dinner held at his home at eight o'clock in the evening.
It's a pity that Li Jianhui is too low-key. Although Huihong Game Company is developing well, the outside world has no idea about its profitability.
Although the Tseung Kwan O development project made him famous for a while, Li Jianhui now only lives in an 800-square-foot community house in Hung Hom, so in the eyes of big families like Xiangjiang, Li Jianhui is not qualified to be on an equal footing with them.
Moreover, the outside world did not know that he was quietly acquiring Wharf stocks, and the same was true for Bao Yugang.
Bao Yugang invited these big guys to come. Firstly, he wanted to see if these big guys had Wharf shares. He was going to buy them. Secondly, he also hoped that these big guys could provide support when funds were scarce, so tonight
For this dinner, no invitation letter was sent to Li Jianhui at all.