Chapter 108: Short the sponsor first, then the broadcaster
At nine o'clock in the evening, Yang Chen answered the video connection request sent by Zhao Kun.
"Haha... Director Yang, good evening. Please see, I am here to stand ready. You can give orders at any time and we guarantee to complete the task." Zhao Kun said very happily.
Zhao Kun turned the camera around to let Yang Chen see the mental state of the trader on his side at this moment.
Yang Chen said with great satisfaction: "Good evening, President Zhao, let's start now. Order your traders to be divided into five groups. Each group will choose a company from Hyundai Motor, Coca-Cola, Visa, Adidas, and Sony. Come out and the group will be solely responsible for the operation.”
Zhao Kun immediately complied. All traders were divided into five groups, and each group selected a company.
Yang Chen said: "Each group can now contact the securities firm to lend out the stocks of the company that the group is responsible for, and they can lend as much as they can."
Although the stock market at Bald Eagle will not open for more than twenty minutes, the brokerage institutions are already at work, and traders can now contact them to lend stocks.
Zhao Kun reminded loudly: "You all listen carefully and strictly implement Director Yang's orders. If anyone fails to do his job well, I won't listen to any explanation and will be fired directly! Let's start work!"
Five groups of traders immediately got busy, contacting brokers through different identities and accounts to lend out the stocks of the companies that their groups were responsible for.
Although ICBC invested hundreds of traders, it took until 3 o'clock in the morning to complete all short selling operations because there were so many brokers to contact and many accounts to operate.
Group 1 is responsible for operating Hyundai Motor, lending a total of 50 million shares, with an average price of 66.25 Eagles and a market value of 3.3125 billion Eagles.
Group 2 is responsible for operating Visa, lending a total of 100 million shares, with an average price of 310 Eagle coins and a market value of 31 billion Eagle coins.
Group 3 is responsible for operating Adidas, lending a total of 30 million shares, with an average price of 10.85 billion eagle coins and a market value of 3.244 billion eagle coins.
Group 4 is responsible for operating Coca-Cola, lending a total of 150 million shares, with an average price of 62.5 eagle coins and a market value of 9.35 billion eagle coins.
Group 5 is responsible for operating Sony, lending a total of 1 billion shares, with an average price of 24.5 eagle coins and a market value of 24.5 billion eagle coins.
According to the regulations of the Bald Eagle stock market, short selling requires a 20% transaction fee. These costs and fees are paid out of ICBC's foreign exchange account. After closing the position, these fees are deducted to obtain the net profit. Yang Chen and ICBC share the net profit equally.
Yang Chen smiled and said: "Well done, everyone has worked hard. You can get off work now, we will continue tomorrow afternoon."
Zhao Kun said with a smile: "It is simple and hassle-free to follow Director Yang. After completing the basic work, just wait and make money. Haha..."
"Your work is done, now it's my turn to do the work. Thank you for your hard work, go home and rest. Good night." Yang Chen said with a smile.
Yang Chen hung up the video, got up and stretched his muscles, and then went back to the room to sleep.
At this time, Chen Xi was sleeping soundly. Yang Chen lay down carefully next to her, but he still woke her up.
Chen Xi turned over and lay in Yang Chen's arms. Yang Chen hugged her and prepared to sleep, but after a few seconds, her hand became dishonest and slipped down his waist.
The man is so tired. He stays up late and works overtime until three o'clock in the morning. After finishing the work, he has to hand in his homework
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Coca-Cola Company, executive meeting.
President Murphy said very happily: "Our total profit in the third quarter was 3.52 billion eagle coins, a year-on-year increase of 33%. This year's situation is very good, everyone's dividends will be small at the end of the year, and the stock price should be close to 100 eagle coins. Fortunately, we are strong, otherwise it would be difficult for the stock price to come back after being shorted by Yang Chen.”
Executives echoed.
"Haha... After our third quarter financial report is released, no one can think of shorting our stock price anymore, because it is impossible to succeed in shorting."
"Yes, the stock price of a company with a net profit of 3.5 billion eagle coins can be successfully shorted. It can only be done by God himself, otherwise it is absolutely impossible."
"To be honest, I'm really dissatisfied with Yang Chen's short selling and harvesting. If the president allows it, I really want to call Yang Chen and let him show me the guts to succeed in short selling again."
"Haha..."
The conference room was filled with cheerful air.
Sudden.
Murphy's secretary hurriedly walked in and said loudly: "President, it's bad, our stock has been shorted again. It has dropped nearly 3 points now. I called the brokerage to inquire, and it was Long Guo again. The account Bian is shorting our stocks seems to be the ICBC of Longguo.”
"What? Farke! Why is ICBC shorting us?" Murphy asked angrily.
The secretary replied: "Yang Chen took the five major banks to take revenge on Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase. It can be seen that Yang Chen and the five major banks of Longguo are together. I suspect that Yang Chen is shorting our stock price again. He may be worried about using his own account It’s risky, so use an ICBC account to operate.”
Murphy slammed the table angrily and stood up, roaring: "Farke! Farke! Why does he always have trouble with us?"
The secretary hurriedly said: "The broker told me that this time Longguo's account not only shorted our stocks, but also shorted Adidas, Visa, Sony, and Hyundai Motors. It can be seen that he is not targeting us. I just want to make money by going short.”
Murphy's eyes suddenly lit up and he said quickly: "No, no, no. The companies you mentioned and ours are sponsors of FIFA! Yang Chen is trying to force us by shorting our stock price. Go and communicate with FIFA to lift the ban on Sihai Bingquan.”
As soon as this statement came out, the whole audience was in an uproar.
CEO Zhan Kunjie said: "It's true. Those companies are sponsors of FIFA with us. Yang Chen is not just shorting a few companies, but shorting a few of our companies and forcing us to negotiate with him. , and then he can ask us to persuade FIFA to lift the ban on Sihaibingquan! This move is too cruel, it is simply gangsterism!"
The financial director hurriedly said: "Don't panic, don't panic. We will release the third quarter financial report immediately. Based on our performance, it is impossible for him to succeed in short selling."
Originally, the third quarter financial report was to be released after the market closed, but now the company could not wait any longer and released it immediately, hoping to reverse the stock price decline within the last half hour.
However, the opposite is true.
The release of the third quarter financial report only caused a small rebound in the stock price, and then the stock price plummeted again.
Looking at the stock price performance, Coca-Cola executives were stunned.
"Fake! How could this be? Why are such big benefits useless? How did Yang Chen convince those institutions and retail investors to sell like crazy?"
"Damn, what the hell, even if the net profit of 3.5 billion eagle coins can't make the stock price rise, it can't stop falling. Is this still the stock market we know?"
"We have already increased our holdings a lot since the last drop, and now we have no money to increase our holdings. What should we do, should we just watch the stock price fall?"
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Murphy gritted his teeth and immediately called Yang Chen.
At this time, Yang Chen was busy doing homework and directly hung up Murphy's call.
Murphy threw his phone on the table angrily. After a moment of silence, he raised his head and said to his secretary: "Contact the major shareholders and hold a shareholders' meeting in the evening. Those who can't come to attend can participate by video. Now the company has encountered It’s a big trouble. It’s time for shareholders to step up and do something. They can’t just wait for dividends.”
The secretary nodded and quickly contacted the shareholders.
Sakura Country, Sony Headquarters.
As soon as President Haruki Toko arrived at the office, his secretary immediately reported to him the sharp drop in the company's stock price last night.
"Originally, our company's stock price rose by 2%. I don't know what happened. When the market closed, the stock price suddenly took a sharp turn. It fell by 10% in just half an hour." Secretary Hui reported.
Toko Haruki was shocked and asked quickly: "How could this happen? Our net profit in the third quarter financial report increased tenfold. Shouldn't the stock price skyrocket? How could it still fall? Have you heard any news?"
The secretary shook his head and replied: "No news has spread yet, but I have contacted my friends at Bald Eagle to help inquire, and they should get back to me soon."
Toko Haruki nodded and said: "When there is a reply, you must come over and report to me immediately."
The secretary nodded, turned and left.
Toko Haruki opened the company's stock and looked at it for a while. He couldn't figure out how the third quarter financial report's net profit surged tenfold and the stock price could still fall. It was really unreasonable.
After a while, the secretary hurried in.
"Mr. President, my friend replied. According to the information he got, Longguo is shorting our company's stock price, and the scale is not small, with a market value of more than 20 billion eagle coins."
Toko Haruki said with a shocked look on his face: "What? People from the Dragon Kingdom shorted our stock price, and it exceeded 20 billion eagle coins? No... We have no grudges against the people from the Dragon Kingdom, who are they?"
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The secretary replied: "It seems that Longguo ICBC's account and funds are operating."
Toko Haruki was even more puzzled. Sony and Ryukoku ICBC had never interacted with each other. They could even be said to be two companies that couldn't compete with each other. Why did Ryukoku ICBC suddenly short Sony's stock price?
What’s even more puzzling is that Sony has already released the news in advance that its profits in the third quarter have increased tenfold. In this case, Longguo ICBC is still shorting Sony’s stock price. What kind of revenge would it take for Longguo ICBC to take such a big risk? Short?
The one who has the same doubts as Juko Haruki is Hyundai Motor's new president Jones Muze. Hyundai Motor has just announced its third quarter financial report, with a net profit of more than 4 trillion yuan. Why did Longguo Industrial and Commercial Bank of China choose this time to short Hyundai? What about car stock prices?
Over in Europe, Adidas President Hebner fell into deep thought when he saw the news of the stock price drop sent by his secretary, and couldn't sleep before dawn.
Adidas has also just announced its third quarter report, with revenue of 6.4 billion euros, a year-on-year increase of 14%, and net profit of 600 million euros, a year-on-year increase of 46%.
Under normal circumstances, if this data is placed on any company or any trading market, the stock price will definitely rise for a period of time.
However.
Not only has the stock price not risen, it has also fallen by 9% overnight. This is too outrageous. Are current investment institutions and retail investors short-selling after seeing a huge increase in performance? Just when the presidents of these companies were confused, Coca-Cola President Murphy called them respectively and invited them to hold a video conference.
Murphy got straight to the point and said: "Mr. Presidents, the stock prices of several of our companies are in big trouble. According to the news I heard here, Longguo ICBC is shorting the stock prices of several of our companies, and Sihai Group Yang Chen and ICBC are Partners. I called Yang Chen many times, and our president of Longguo District also called Yang Chen many times, but he just didn’t answer our calls. So, I am almost certain that Yang Chen is shorting our companies. The company’s share price.”
Adidas President Hebner immediately asked in confusion: "Why? We have no grudges with Sihai Group, and we have never offended Yang Chen. Why would he short our stock price? And I'm confused, we just released How did he succeed in shorting the third quarter earnings report? Is he a god? Can he control institutions and retail investors to suppress the stock price? ”
Not to mention, his guess was really accurate. The system was what he called God. It was the system control agency and retail investors who couldn't help but sell.
Shaha Booth, president of Visa International Group, said: "Is he crazy? He dares to short the Visa Group. Who gives him the courage? And I wonder, why can he succeed in shorting? Our group has a history of It’s the first time since then that it has dropped more than 10 points in a single day, which is really outrageous.”
Hyundai Motor President Jones Muze said: "We at Hyundai Motor have no grudges against him. Why is he shorting our stock price?"
Coca-Cola President Murphy said: "We are all sponsors of FIFA, and FIFA took the lead in issuing an announcement banning Dragon Kingdom athletes from drinking Sihai Ice Spring. Now you understand why Yang Chen shorted several of us at the same time, right? ?”
"Wow, he is too cruel. How could he come up with such a damaging move? This is a completely unforeseen disaster for us. He has the guts to directly deal with FIFA and short our stock price. What's going on?" Sony President Jugu Haruki said unconvinced.
Murphy sighed and said: "Isn't it obvious? He has nothing to do with FIFA, but we are FIFA's sponsors, and he wants to force us to ask FIFA to revoke the ban on Sihai Bingquan. Alas... …”
When Murphy said this, the presidents of the other four companies understood the reason.
Adidas President Hebner said: "When FIFA and other organizations issued bans before, my colleagues and I also discussed that there was nothing the Dragon Country could do this time. I didn't expect that Yang Chen would come up with such a cruel idea. Method. ”
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"Then what do you CEOs mean? Should we carry on, or should we negotiate with Yang Chen?" Toguru Haruki asked.
Several presidents stopped talking.
Their first choice is of course to resist, but they are worried that if they persist, the stock price will continue to fall, and shareholders will definitely not be willing to do so.
They also know in their hearts that once they negotiate with Yang Chen, Yang Chen will definitely ask them to force FIFA to lift the ban, but they don't want the athletes of the Dragon Kingdom to drink the ice spring from the Four Seas to strengthen their physical strength, so naturally they are not willing to force FIFA to lift the ban. Lift the ban on Sihai Ice Spring.
Alas...
Dilemma!
Murphy said: "I have contacted shareholders to raise some more funds to increase my stock holdings and try to see if I can bring the stock price back. If even real money can't bring the stock price back, we can only contact Yang Chen to negotiate. What do you mean? ”
Haruki Toko, President of Sony: "That's the only way it can be. Let's try letting shareholders and executives increase their holdings."
The presidents of Hyundai Motor, Adidas, and Visa also said that they would let shareholders try to increase their holdings, and they would publicly condemn Yang Chen's short selling behavior.
These CEOs kept their word. While they asked shareholders and executives to increase their holdings of their own company's stocks, they also issued statements condemning Yang Chen and Longguo ICBC for their short-selling behavior.
Hyundai Motor: Our company has always had good relations with Longguo, and Hyundai Motor, which has a joint venture with Longguo Capital Motor, is produced and sold in Longguo. Mr. Yang Chen, chairman of Sihai Group, shorted our company’s stock price for his own selfish purposes. Our company strongly protested and condemned this. We urge Mr. Yang Chen to immediately stop short selling our company and not to damage our good cooperative relationship with Longguo.
If this happened in the past, the Dragon Kingdom would definitely put pressure on Yang Chen.
But things are different now. Domestic brands such as Bivadi and Qirui have emerged, and Longguo strongly advocates the development of new energy vehicles. Longguo hopes that its own brands can eat up the joint venture car market, so how can it care about Hyundai? What are your thoughts on cars?
Kia is almost extinct in the Dragon Country market, so it’s time for Hyundai to exit.
Visa Card International Group: Visa card provides convenient services for trade and transactions around the world. Our company never imagined that there would be a day when people would maliciously short-sell on a large scale. We hope that Chairman Yang of Sihai Group will not be an enemy of the people of the world and stop his wrong behavior immediately.
Coca-Cola: Our company has just been shorted by Mr. Yang Chen, and the stock price has not recovered. Now he is shorting our stock price again. What is the difference between this and a robber? Just because we are a sponsor of FIFA, it is really crazy for you to short us twice in one month. If you have the ability, just go directly against FIFA and take action on us. What's going on? Strongly request Long Guo to order Mr. Yang Chen to stop short selling and not to disrupt the financial order.
Sony and Adidas also issued similar announcements, expressing dissatisfaction and urging Yang Chen to stop short selling.
What can Yang Chen do?
Before the European stock market opened in the afternoon, Yang Chen posted a Weibo message.
"The Bald Eagle stock market is a free and open market that allows both long and short selling. I participate in financial activities in accordance with the law. Why not? If I can succeed in shorting, it means that the stock prices of some companies should have fallen. Otherwise, what can I do? Can shorting be successful? It is recommended that some companies operate and manage well, and if it fails, use money to increase their stock holdings to increase the stock price, instead of blaming others for operating stocks in accordance with the law.”
After posting on Weibo, Yang Chen went to the investment department to prepare to connect with ICBC to continue the operation.
Netizens rushed to Yang Chen's Weibo comment area to leave comments.
"Damn it! Boss Yang is still so smart, shorting so many giant companies at once."
"Let me go, each of these companies is better than the last. They can even sell visa cards successfully. It's really awesome."
"Before, everyone thought that Boss Yang had no way to solve the ban issue of international sports organizations this time. Now Boss Yang tells everyone that he still has a way to solve it."
"This move is really cool. As long as these sponsoring companies can be defeated, they will take the initiative to contact FIFA or something to lift the ban on Sihai Bingquan, so as to ask Boss Yang to stop short selling."< br>
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Now that the cards have been revealed, Yang Chen doesn't need to keep them, he can just operate with confidence and boldness.
European stock markets opened one after another.
Yang Chen video-connected with Zhao Kun.
Zhao Kun said with a smile: "Director Yang, our operations last night caused those companies to break their defenses, and they all issued announcements condemning you. Haha..."
Yang Chen also smiled and said: "A group of fools can stop others from shorting by issuing an announcement. When foreigners short us, we will not be harvested. The Bald Eagle family's investment institutions are shorting other countries everywhere, why don't they Condemn? I operate according to the law and don’t care what they think.”
Zhao Kun laughed loudly and said: "You are right, we operate in accordance with the law, and no one can stop it. So how do we operate now?"
Yang Chen said with a smile: "We are shorting the stock prices of three broadcasters, Medibo Group, Bein Media, and Sky Sports this afternoon. As per the old rules, traders are divided into three groups, and each group is responsible for a company. It can be operated now. ”
Zhao Kun quickly said: "Did everyone hear clearly? Do what Director Yang said immediately!"
ICBC's traders immediately worked in groups and contacted European brokers to lend stocks of Sky Sports, Medibo Group, and Bein Media.
These three companies are the most important broadcasters in the European football market. These three companies cover almost the entire European market and extend to the Americas, Africa, and some Asian countries.
Such as Serie A, French Ligue 1, Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, European Cup, World Cup, etc., the broadcast rights of these games are in the hands of these three companies.
If sponsors cannot force FIFA to compromise without paying, then World Cup games, European first-division games, Champions League and other games will not be broadcast. FIFA will face pressure from these markets. They will definitely It is impossible to withstand this kind of pressure.
People all over the world can testify that it was FIFA and other sports organizations that made the first move, and it was reasonable for Yang Chen to fight back.
At six o'clock in the evening, the traders finally completed the short selling work of the three broadcasters.
Sky Sports shorted the market value of 6 billion euros, Medibo Group shorted the market value of 12 billion euros, and Bein Media shorted the market value of 5 billion euros.
Later, Yang Chen's personal account also shorted each of these three broadcasters, and then we can watch the good show.
Sky Sports.
President Foyce is holding a meeting with senior executives.
"I heard that Sihai Group Yang Chen shorted several FIFA sponsors in order to force FIFA and other organizations to lift the ban on Sihai Bingquan. Our company has signed a 20-year agreement with FIFA, and I am worried that he will Short us." Hollis said, and then asked: "What do you think?"
Executives expressed their opinions.
"Impossible! We not only broadcast international events, but also football. If he dares to touch us, many people will denounce him. He cannot be that confused."
"But I think he may be shorting our company's stock price. He even dares to short-sell Visa card, and our company is nothing in his eyes."
"Sigh... Don't speculate anymore. Now it is certain that he has shorted our company's stock price. Look at our company's stock price. It was up 4 points just now, and it fell 3 points not long after. This is a typical example. Stock price performance after being shorted by Yang Chen”
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Everyone quickly opened the company's stock market and took a look. As expected, the company's stock price was falling rapidly.
President Foyce immediately contacted the securities firm to inquire about the information and determined that it was Longguo ICBC's account that lent Sky Sports' tickets for short selling. Foyth believed that the sudden drop in the stock price was due to Yang Chen's short selling.
"Damn! He really wants to attack the broadcasters! Madman, a pure madman! Isn't he afraid of bearing the consequences? Isn't he afraid that the shareholders of the company he shorted will send assassins to assassinate him?" Foyth was very worried. said angrily.
At this time, Paul, the president of Medibo, called Foyce and invited Foyce to join him in a video conference with Vos, the president of Bein Media.
Paul, the president of MediBo, said: "I have seen the stock prices of your two companies, and they must have been shorted by Yang Chen just like our company. Right?"
Sky Sports President Foyce said angrily: "I asked the brokerage, and it is indeed Yang Chen who shorted our company's stock. The damn thing actually bullied us."
Bayern President Voss followed up and said: "He wants to force FIFA to compromise, and we are in an unforeseen disaster. But things have already happened, and we must face it bravely. Tell me the truth, two presidents, what are you going to do?"
(End of chapter)