Chapter 1274: Under the nest

Compared with "California United Petroleum Company", Tan Zhenhua is more concerned about the situation of West Hans Mann Group. After all, "UCL" is only a project competition relationship with him, and he is very certain about this in his heart. In the previous life, the Gwadar project finally returned to China’s hands after handling many operating companies. Without him, the capitalists originally took this port for the purpose of attacking China. For them, with such great energy , Money is invested to help other countries in construction, but the benefits are long and distant. How is that possible? Those who are willing to do this are not capitalists, but international philanthropists.
Therefore, even if the "Unocal-PSA consortium" finally won the project, he would be happy to move a small bench and sit next to eating melons for a few years, and wait until the group of people are cold before he takes action. Anyway, he still Young and totally affordable.
But Mann is different. Marine diesel engines are not only one of the core equipment for China Civil Ships to go to sea, but also a bottleneck that the shipbuilding industry must break through. It is also the key equipment for the China Navy to move toward Deep Blue!
But Guo Zhaode's answer made him both happy and worried.
The good news is that due to the global stock market crash, the Frankfurt DAX30 index plummeted 11% that day. Although the MAN Group was fairly stable, it was not immune to a 9% drop that day; the worry is that MAN has always adopted a low-leverage operation method. , Good cash flow, low debt ratio and conservative investment strategies of shareholders have saved itself. At least the risk of liquidation is not seen in a short period of time-it has even begun to execute under the call of the West Hans government. The operation of repurchasing its own stock on dips means that he has a lot of cash in his hands!
"It's really a hard bone!" Tan Zhenhua sighed, "There are no cracks."
"This is not absolute." Guo Zhaode said on the phone: "No matter how low the leverage is, it is also leverage. There is always a risk threshold, and no one can hold it if it exceeds the threshold. Now they still have more power, but they still have it. Enough cash reserves, as long as we can continue to attack, no matter how strong the fortress is, there will be a day when it collapses.
Tan Zhenhua was taken aback, and hurriedly asked: "You want to attack?"
There was a grinning voice on the other end of the phone: "Why not? Now everyone is stupefied. They are like a group of headless flies. They have no idea what happened. This is our great opportunity, Ah Rick, we hold a large number of stock index futures empty orders in our hands. Don’t do anything at this time. After this village, there will be no such shop. I bet that it won’t take long for someone to discover the tricky and fast-paced "program trading" When restrictions are established, this trick will not work well at that time. Think about it, this opportunity is not only a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but also fleeting. Should we seize it?"
Do you want to catch it?
Tan Zhenhua only hesitated for half a second before making up his mind: "Zhao De, continue!"
"I knew you would agree." Guo Zhaode laughed and hung up, then dialed another number: "Kevin, for your billionaire dream, let's continue!"
"Tell the boss, he is the greatest person in the world, I love him to death!" Kevin. Mitnick was not stingy with his words of praise. He put down the phone, turned around and opened his arms to the group of people in the room who looked at him with longing eyes, and said in a tone like singing a hymn: "Gentlemen , Let us go on, I promise, after this month, each of you will become a millionaire!"
There was a burst of cheers from the crowd, which was mixed with a few "Ula", and then scattered, and the screens of all workstations were lit in the next second...
At the same time, Tan Zhenhua also dialed an overseas call. When the call was connected, he said in a deep voice:
"Zhenhua? I am Zhenhua..."
Tuesday, October 20, 1987, 8:30 am Hong Kong time.
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is holding an emergency meeting. Twenty-one committee members are in attendance. Everyone has a solemn expression on their faces.
The Chairman of the Stock Exchange, Li Fuzhao, gave his opening remarks. He said: "Given the weird trend of the Hong Kong stock market the day before and the sharp drop in the U.S. stock market, it is necessary for us to find ways to avoid the global stock market decline.
After intense discussions, in the end, the meeting decided to suspend the market for four days in accordance with the powers granted by the provisions of the "Hong Kong Stock Exchange Rules" in order to "clear the backlog of transactions."
The Stock Exchange immediately notified the Hong Kong Financial Secretary of this decision and received his support. This decision was immediately transmitted to the anxious investors through various channels, and everyone was a little relieved. However, A senior stockbroker who asked not to be named also expressed a pessimistic view in the media. He believes that even if the Stock Exchange has taken such extraordinary measures, a wave of global stock market collapse has already formed, and even if Xiangjiang can avoid the market by closing The impact of a wave, but there are no eggs under the cover, and the Hong Kong stock market after the reopening is still not optimistic. He even made a prediction. According to his calculations, the depth of this round of stock market decline may exceed 1,000. Point, and this is almost one-third of the total market value of the Hong Kong stock market!
This opinion was submerged in numerous comments on the future of the stock market, and it quickly became silent, because people always believe in what they are most willing to believe. For example, this kind of uninformed collapse cannot last. , The rebound will come soon, etc...
But unfortunately, the fact seems to be developing along the path he predicted. After the global stock market crash on Monday, the rebound in hope did not come. Instead, it spread more and more. Because of the preciousness of cash, all energy Assets that were quickly converted into cash are being sold, precious metals, copper, coffee, cotton textiles, orange juice, sugar, poultry, cooking oil... everything is falling-except for grains in food.
Because people know that when the economic crisis comes, everything else is worthless except for the necessities to maintain the bottom line of human viability!
Fall, fall, fall, fall!
Four days have passed, and another weekend has passed. The Hong Kong people who have watched the performance of all the global financial markets this week can no longer bear it. As soon as the stock market opened on October 26, the Stock Exchange found reluctantly that they were facing , Is like the top selling of Taishan!
Just 15 minutes after the market opened, the Hang Seng Index fell by as much as 650 points. By noon, the Hang Seng Index had fallen by 845 points, and by the end of the night, it had fallen by a full 1241 points, or more than 33%!
Looking at these numbers, Li Fuzhao felt that his heart was about to break, and the whole world seemed to collapse rapidly in front of him.
At this time, who else can save him, the stock market of the Stock Exchange, and the economy of Hong Kong?
At this moment, the phone rang on his desk...
PS: The Hang Seng Index of the Stock Exchange quoted in this chapter is historical facts, the author's note.