Rebirth of the Evil Life

Chapter 733 Fighting!

In 2003, April 2nd, the second day of April Fool's Day, people who just woke up from all kinds of absurd jokes on April Fool's Day found that the world suddenly seemed to be full of vibes and undercurrents, and there seemed to be some major event to happen.

First, the Japanese stock market was hit hard, and then the U.S. stock market also suffered a small decline. There were frequent rumors about high-tech stocks, and there were signs of frequent large-scale capital transfers. These clues seemed to predict that something big would happen.

At 7:30 a.m. in Tokyo, Japan, half an hour before the opening of the market, Sony Corporation suddenly announced in a high-profile manner that it has led Sony Corporation to create new brilliant feats—President Nobuyuki Idei resigned because of Sony’s huge losses last year and the strong decline in stocks. And announced that Howard Stringer, the head of Sony in the United States, will be the chairman and chief executive officer.

When this declaration came out, the industry was shocked. Originally, after Sony announced its 2002 financial statements yesterday, under the huge loss of 916 million US dollars, Sony's stock made a strong attack. Nobuyuki Idei fell from being rated as the most successful moment to the worst. But the outside world never expected that Sony would move so quickly. In just one night, the CEO was replaced and the first foreign leader in Sony's history was hired.

Howard Stringer, who once served as the president of CBS Group, the chairman of Tele-tv and the chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment Co., Ltd., is an American with a strong wrist and outstanding business acumen. Of course, he is also an old friend of Lin Feng. In the United States, when Lin Feng's "Second Entertainment" was in a war with Sony Records, Howard Stringer was promoted to the president of Sony Records. Unexpectedly, he was transferred to Sony Headquarters in Japan this time as the president.

When Lin Feng heard the news, he was really surprised. I have to sigh, the world is too small!

As for the news that Howard Stringer was appointed as the president of Sony, after the industry was shocked, they were optimistic about Sony's prospects. In addition to Howard Stringer's personal experience, he also expressed admiration for Sony's decisiveness in times of crisis, and the market is optimistic about it. Of course, there is also a little part of the Japanese's mentality of "worshiping foreigners" towards Americans.

And cap and other companies that also incurred huge losses have also announced news that they will integrate the company's non-performing assets and reorganize. The market is full of bullish voices. Although the 17 companies led by Sony suffered huge deficits before, they showed the courage to make drastic reforms the next day, and the market is still extremely optimistic. Of course, it can only be seen in the future whether it will be effective. But at least for now, investors' confidence in each company has been stabilized.

Subsequently, when the outside world had not fully digested the decisions of companies such as Sony, the Minister of Finance of the Japanese government also announced that it would lower the bank interest rate from 6% to 5.5%, a drop of 0.5%. At the same time, it also announced that the huge losses of major companies this time, if it causes a disaster in the Japanese stock market,

The government will fund the bailout. At the same time, he called on many investors in Japan to be optimistic about the Japanese stock market, not to be pessimistic, but to actively sell.

This series of actions has greatly stimulated the confidence of Japanese investors. I believe that the huge losses of major companies yesterday will be an opportunity for major companies to reform, especially with the Japanese government's bailout behavior, yesterday's overall decline will only be a short-lived phenomenon.

"It's interesting, there is indeed a problem!" In a corner of the United States, Soros looked at the Japanese stock market with an intriguing smile on his face.

At this time, in the long-term reserved box of Hong Kong Jockey Club Li Zekai and others. Li Zekai, Tang Jiacheng, and Zheng Zhiheng were already seated, and they were watching the Japanese stock market, the US stock market and the European stock market that are closely related to Japan. When they heard the news, all three of them were taken aback. They did not expect the Japanese government to move so quickly.

"Brother Feng, the Japanese government has issued various policies frequently. It seems that they are afraid that we will make matters worse and cause more unpredictable consequences." Tang Jiacheng listened to the news from Japan and analyzed.

However, the Japanese government moved so fast, I am afraid they will have no chance to intervene. After all, under the good news from many parties, once the market opens, Sony's stock price will definitely rise, especially once the confidence of Japanese investors returns, they can only sigh, and even the money they made before will be in vain.

Lin Feng nodded. I was also worried about the news from Japan. Japan's action this time was really too fast, and it only dropped a limit, and then fully rescued the market, which was beyond the expectations of most investors. Generally speaking, when encountering such a situation, those speculators can only lose money. Fortunately, Lin Feng was well prepared.

Lin Feng looked at his watch. Beijing time was 6:45, and Tokyo time was 7:45. It's time for Buffett to say something about the Japanese stock market!

Sure enough, at this time, news came from the United States. When interviewing "Stock God" Buffett, a reporter from "Wall Street Journal" conducted a brief interview on yesterday's Japanese stock market.

"In my opinion, due to the serious loss of Japanese large-cap blue-chip stocks led by Sony, this is the first time in 25 years that Sony has suffered such a huge loss, and its related profit items, such as LCD TV panels, mobile phone communications, and movies. The investment on the Internet has been hit hard, each has a loss of more than hundreds of millions of dollars, and the market share has also been lost, and the original leader has become a catcher. I speculate that in the next 2-3 years, it will be difficult for Sony to turn losses into profits. After all, Sony's flagship product, the "ps2", which brought the highest profit of 2.5 billion US dollars last year, has saturated the global market, and it is difficult to create brilliance again, and now that Microsoft's 'x' has joined, I am afraid that Sony will develop follow-up products, which will It has put heavy pressure on Sony's funds. And this time there are as many as 17 companies that have suffered huge losses in the Japanese stock market. In my opinion, the Japanese stock market will continue to decline in the future. Investors should choose carefully!" Buffett said worriedly.

When Buffett heard these words, Li Zekai, Tang Jiacheng, and Zheng Zhiheng clapped their hands and shouted. Although the Japanese government has frequently made strange moves, it is not as good as Buffett's brief speculation. Because he is not someone else, he is the "stock god" Buffett. Moreover, Buffett never plays futures, which is also well known. Therefore, Buffett's remarks are absolutely not deliberately slandering the Japanese stock market, and he is suspected of taking advantage of the fire.

In particular, Buffett's last statement calling on investors to invest cautiously has chilled the hearts of all investors. The stock gods say that they should invest cautiously, so can they invest indiscriminately? What's more, Sony's huge loss is indeed true. This is an ironclad matter, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. Although it has been changed and several measures have been introduced, can it really save Sony, which is in decline?

In this mentality of worrying about gains and losses, the Japanese stock market opened.

At 8:00 Tokyo time, Tang Jiacheng received a message from Abby—short selling.

Now that the market has just opened, the entire market is still on the sidelines. After all, the money in the hands of investors is not blown by strong winds, it is all earned by themselves, and it is impossible to invest blindly. Caution is required! Especially in the case of unpredictable market prospects, we must be more cautious.

Therefore, under this circumstance, Abby hopes to sell short with all his strength, deal a heavy blow to the market, and tilt the balance in investors' minds.

Li Zekai, Tang Jiacheng, and Zheng Zhiheng looked at each other and took a slight breath.

After the three of them dispersed last night, the more they thought about Lin Feng's "gift", the more uncomfortable they felt. Originally, everyone was friends and they were on equal footing, but as a result of this great "gift" from Lin Feng, they felt that they were half shorter than Lin Feng, and they couldn't stand up straight in front of Lin Feng.

Therefore, after they dispersed, after a night of deliberation, they decided to take a chance with Lin Feng this time. The big deal is to start all over again, and the four of them will be brothers who live together and die together. With their intelligence and connections, Li Zekai believes that the four of them will be able to stand up again immediately. What's more, Lin Feng's miracle has been verified more than once, this time should be another moment to witness the miracle.

In the end, Li Zekai raised US$520 million, Tang Jiacheng raised US$100 million, and Zheng Zhiheng raised US$230 million, for a total of US$800 million. Of course, this is by no means the entire net worth of the three of them. If the entire net worth is counted, Li Zekai alone can raise nearly US$2 billion in funds. But if the boat is broken like that, the elders behind it will definitely know, then things will be troublesome, and there will be many unnecessary variables.

So the trio quietly raised a total of $800 million in cash in the dark. This is also thanks to the fact that the three of them came from rich families and have a good reputation, otherwise it would be an impossible task to raise 800 million US dollars in cash overnight.

"Sell it!" There was a trace of excitement and tremor in Li Zekai's faint voice.

Tang Jiacheng nodded, his hands trembling slightly, and he continued to short sell caps. Sega and other stocks each had 200,000 lots, costing a principal of 10 million U.S. dollars (the actual expenditure was 100 million U.S. dollars, but according to futures trading rules, only one-tenth of the principal was required gold will do).

The Japanese market is buzzing. At the very beginning, someone sniped powerfully, which is not good. The stock price also began to decline slightly, one yen, one yen.

Abby Cohen in the distance was also taken aback. She didn't expect that Li Zekai and others would have such abundant funds, and the market would open so quickly. You know this battle has just begun. Li Zekai and others were able to sell 10 million US dollars in principal at the opening of the market, obviously the funds were extremely strong. That being the case, Abby Cohen is also unambiguous, this time Lin Feng's funds are unprecedentedly abundant. With her contacts in major investment banks around the world and Lin Feng's reputation, getting a loan couldn't be easier. This time Abby Cohen has prepared enough funds under Lin Feng's full authorization.

Therefore, Abby Cohen once again shorted 500,000 lots on Sony, and successively shorted 500,000 lots on other high-tech stocks. But at the same time, Abby Cohen began shorting "Tokyo Electric Power" in small pens, and "Tokyo Electric Power" is the focus of today.

With the short selling by Li Zekai and others, coupled with Abby Cohen's continuous attacks, the stock prices of Sony and other companies suddenly fell again. Sony's shares have slowly fallen to $52 from yesterday's close of $54.19.

This naturally caused the market to scream again and again. However, unlike yesterday's panic, although the market is exclaiming today, investors' confidence is significantly higher, and they continue to wait and see with currency.

Abby Cohen frowned. It seems that the actions of the Japanese government and the actions of major companies have indeed played a huge role in the market. Under the premise of huge losses of 17 companies, market confidence is still so strong. If there had been such a big selling order yesterday, Sony's share price would have plummeted.

"Lin, have you got any evidence of the 'Tokyo Electric Power' nuclear power plant accident?" Abby Cohen called and asked. This matter is of great importance. Without this report, I am afraid that today I can only prepare to avoid the limelight.

"Well, don't worry, there is already a clue. I will definitely get it today." Lin Feng said. In the early morning of this day, Erisa Kazama called and told Lin Feng that the evidence of the "Tokyo Electric Power" nuclear power plant accident had already begun to emerge. An insider at the time had enough evidence to prove the accident at the Tokyo Electric Power nuclear power plant, but the price was 10 million US dollars.

This made Kazama Erisa extremely hesitant. The price is too high. However, the other party would never counter-offer, and he was obviously very human, knowing the importance of the evidence in his hand. Therefore, Erisa Kazama had no choice but to ask Lin Feng in the early morning, asking for Lin Feng's opinion on how to deal with it.

"Erisa, no matter how much money it has, it must be taken. But remember, the evidence must be solid, and it must not be vague evidence." Lin Feng issued the death order.

However, the witness was not in Tokyo, and Erisa Kazama was named to exchange evidence with cash. After hanging up the phone in the early morning, Erisa Kazama brought 10 million US dollars in cash to exchange evidence. The cash was temporarily withdrawn by Erisa Kazama from the treasury of the Japanese branch of the "Second World". After counting the cash in her hands and looking for someone to piece things together, she finally got together 10 million U.S. dollars in cash. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to make it in time!

Lin Feng looked at his watch, and estimated that he should get the evidence soon.

Abby Cohen nodded. In this way, then he can let go of it. Now it is necessary to "lead the snake out of the hole" first, draw out the opponents of all parties, and then throw out your own trump card.

"Short high-tech stocks aggressively, and slowly sell Tokyo Electric Power with small pens." Abby Cohen passed the order again.

Tang Jiacheng was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't mention that Abby Cohen would short-sell the large-cap blue-chip stock "Tokyo Electric Power", which is not a high-tech stock. However, thinking of Lin Feng's expression yesterday, Tang Jiacheng did not hesitate, and began to short sell many high-tech stocks in Japan, and at the same time sold "Tokyo Electric Power" one by one without a trace.

"Hmph, you finally made a move!" At this moment, Sony and other companies who had been waiting for a long time sneered and began to show their sharp teeth. This time, they must make these speculators who want to take advantage of the fire come back in a big defeat!