Chapter 161
Chapter 161 A rising tide lifts all boats
In the lobby of a hotel in New York, there is chaos at the moment. Nearly 350 investment companies, as well as some large individual futures investors, have gathered here.
At this moment, in the past, in the futures market, these investment institutions, which were regarded as market makers and big dogs, and cut the leeks of ordinary futures investors, were all angrily cursing at the few people on the stage.
"You are a monopoly, we will sue you to the American Trade Commission!"
"America Telecom is the vulture with Goldman Sachs!"
"This line must not be allowed to enter Wall Street, this is unfair competition!"
Hundreds of small and medium-sized Wall Street investment institutions are all attacking in unison with righteous indignation. If it weren't for the hotel lobby, there is a large group of security personnel from the Blackwater Company standing there, these people may have rushed up.
Spivey and Marcus, who were sitting in front of the hotel lobby, looked at the scene below blankly. Fortunately, before the Dutch auction was held, Song Yang asked Heishui Security to send a team over in advance, otherwise Maybe they will really make trouble, these Wall Street companies are all bold and capable of doing anything.
Blackwater is currently building a team, setting up a security company in America, and setting up offices in New York, Los Angeles, Washington and other places to provide security services for some companies, celebrities, universities, hotels, etc.
For the outside world, mercenaries are invested, and they are still training. Heishui's popularity is not very high now, but as America continues to mercenary outside, as long as Heishui can participate, orders and popularity will soon rise!
Both Spivey and Marcus looked at the following blankly. Today, these futures investment companies on Wall Street gathered together. After the American Telecom's Chicago Wall Street line project was announced, more than 100 seats were allocated by Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank Investment Bank and other giants bought it, and there were only 70 seats left. When 300 companies robbed them, the pot immediately exploded without accident.
More than 350 companies are competing for 70 seats. If you think about it with your heels, you know that more than half of them will be completely driven out of the futures market, or reduced to leeks. There is no way to make a profit. This is related to the tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in profits of these companies every year. It is strange that they are willing to throw them away!
Sitting among the crowd in the lobby of the hotel was a middle-aged man with a puffy belly. He also had a sad expression on his face. If Professor Tristan was here at this moment, he would definitely feel very familiar. This man has been on TV several times. , Wall Street investor Christian Barnard, who had a crush on Tristan.
Christian Barnard's company on Wall Street is also involved in futures investment. Although it is not his main business, losing this business will at least cause Christian Barnard pain for a while.
The investment companies sitting below are constantly cursing, and they are also asking about the origin of this "American Telecom". Wall Street is the most well-informed place in the world, not to mention that Song Yang has also visited several major Wall Street investment banks in the past few days. .
Even if it is still unclear what the relationship between this "American Telecom" and Song Yang is, the various investment banks present quickly raised some eyebrows, knowing that American Telecom must have a lot to do with Song Yang, an Internet upstart.
"Let Bruno Song out!"
In the crowd below, someone yelled, and then there was an uproar in the crowd. I don't know how this matter got involved with Song Yang.
Christian Barnard was stunned for a moment when he heard Song Yang's name, and then heard that America Telecom, which suddenly appeared and cut off their source of income, was probably a company invested by Song Yang, Christian Barnard Barnard's face was quite expressive.
Barnard, who has never believed in evil, couldn't help but feel that "the road to the enemy is narrow". Last year, he went on NBC TV to argue with Tristan whether the Internet is a scam. He believes that the Internet is simply a money-losing product that does not make money .
As a result, in the blink of an eye, Song Yang established the double-click company, carrying the banner of Internet digital advertising, and bringing the global Internet into a new era. The Internet seems to be "profitable"!
The Internet, which was looked down upon by Christian Barnard, has not been too hot since last year. Since Netscape went public, its stock price has increased by nearly ten times. As long as the company is connected with the Internet, it is about to go crazy.
As for Barnard's investment company, because it didn't allocate Internet stocks, its earnings last year were not bad, but compared with other investment companies, it was something that investors disliked.
Forcing Barnard to start investing in Internet companies, he said that the Internet is full of bubbles, but Barnard had to buy Internet stocks, otherwise investors would have to run away.
But now, Barnard's investment company is lying on the ground again. Looking at the two Spiveys on the stage, Barnard's cheeks twitch. It's not that he has to go to the church to get rid of evil by the priest, as long as he meets Song Yang, nothing good will happen!
Marcus of the old Jianghu, facing this kind of scene, was very calm, slapped the table hard, and shouted directly into the microphone in front of him, "America Telecom will not force any company to use America Telecom's services, If you don't want to use America Telecom's lines, you can leave now!"
There was still a lot of scolding at the scene, but none of the companies left the scene. What a joke, scolding is scolding, but which Wall Street company can make money without making money, and if it doesn't make money, it really can't make money. Don't let these Wall Street companies let go of the profits of US dollars.
"America Telecom, the line seat from Chicago to Wall Street, starts with a five-year agreement. The seat cannot be transferred after the auction. The auction price for the first seat is 25 million dollars!"
No matter how the following quarreled, Marcus and Spivey started the auction. The so-called Dutch auction is an auction in which the price goes from high to low, and the price is continuously reduced.
This is a kind of psychological game. At the beginning, the price must be inflated. It depends on whether there is any bid. Unless there is no bidder, the price will continue to be lowered until someone starts bidding.
But this has a disadvantage, that is, the price of the auction item is low, but it may not be possible to grab it, especially for today's situation, more than 300 companies, grabbing 70 seats, and most of the companies will definitely Can't grab it!
The first bid, but no one responded, Spivey and Marcus were not in a hurry, even if all the bids for American Telecom were passed up today, they were not in a hurry. Helping a Wall Street company and suffering a big loss in the futures market, they will naturally come to ask for cooperation.
"Twenty-four and a half million dollars..."
"Twenty-four million dollars..."
When the auction price was reduced by one million, a representative of a Wall Street company suddenly raised his hand.
All the colleagues present, especially those small investment companies, all looked at the company representative who raised their hands with murderous eyes.
But the representative of this Wall Street company is not afraid at all. The Wall Street investment company he works for is not comparable to Deutsche Bank Investment Bank, Morgan, Merrill Lynch, etc., but it is also in the second echelon, and the annual income in the futures industry is also ten dollars. The number of digits is about US dollars.
Just now they called America Telecom a vampire, but they blame it. How could this investment company fail to see the help of America Telecom's line to their company.
When this Wall Street investment company spent 24 million dollars to take four seats from American Telecom, and then went directly to the hotel room to sign the agreement and leave, the hotel lobby was full of curses again.
But in the following auction, there were significantly more companies who took action to **** the seats on the line. When the price dropped to 20 million US dollars, the 70 seats were swarmed to grab less than 20 seats!
Barnard, who was sitting below, couldn't bear it any longer at this moment. When Spivey just called for a seat of 19.5 million dollars, Barnard immediately stood up, although his heart was beating. Blood, but Barnard was afraid that if he didn't make a move, his investment company would be completely out of business.
"Say hello to Bruno Song for me!"
After signing and tearing off the check, Barnard almost gritted his teeth and said something to Spivey.
Spivey looked at Barnard who left with some confusion. There are many companies that have objections to American Telecom, but like Barnard, he is the first one who is at odds with Song Yang!
At America Telecom, when the auction line seats were in full swing, Song Yang also double-clicked the New York branch company and met the three companies responsible for underwriting stocks.
For Deutsche Bank, it is naturally impossible for Edison to come in person. This kind of thing has not yet reached the point where he can attend in person. The person who came was Edison's disciple Anshu Jain.
Merrill Lynch is similar to Deutsche Bank Investment Bank, and Stan O'Neill did not come, and an executive in charge of securities business was sent here.
The so-called enemies are extremely jealous when they meet. When the people from Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch meet, the double-click in the conference room and the people from Goldman Sachs can smell gunpowder through the air.
The person sent by Goldman Sachs is Paulson's confidant Pellet Greene. At this moment, he looks like he is watching a show, staring at the people from Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank.
Whitman coughed, and finally made Merrill Lynch and the people from Deutsche Bank sit down, even though they were still staring at each other, but they didn't make a move. They all know each other, maybe even went to parties and went to nightclubs together a few years ago, but now they regard each other as enemies.
"Congratulations Song, today's auction is very exciting!"
Pellet Greene said to Song Yang that, as the boss of Wall Street, no trouble could be hidden from Goldman Sachs' eyeliner.
Pellet Greene is also representing Goldman Sachs, and he is showing affection to Song Yang. When Goldman Sachs learned of the American Telecom project, it immediately raised Song Yang's rank in Goldman Sachs several times. This time, Goldman Sachs took the double-click The underwriting of the company's listed stocks is also a gesture of favor to Song Yang.
In America, who can refuse a collaborator worth a billion or even two billion dollars, even Goldman Sachs can't refuse!
Let's discuss it. Can you make up the chapter that is owed tomorrow? I'm a little hungry.
(end of this chapter)