Chapter 152: What is this Zhou Ming going to do?
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The World Trade Center is a very famous financial building in the city of Brighton, and not only some companies in Brighton, but also many famous companies in the six states of the entire New England region are willing to choose this place for their headquarters.
Like many other skyscrapers, the Brighton World Trade Center has elevators to different floors, but on November 26, when all the commuters came to work as usual, they suddenly found that the entrance to the elevator from the 60th floor to the top of the 60th floor had been added with strict security measures, and many heavily armed security guards stood at the door, vigilantly watching every pedestrian.
"Something must have happened again, you know those rich people are so afraid of death, they always think that someone is going to kill them, it's because the money in their accounts is taken from us!"
People passing by whispered speculation and commented, because in the past, although the upper floors of the building were also off-limits, it was more for the safety of the building, not just for the wealthy who worked in the high-rises, but sometimes, when there were a lot of security guards at the elevator entrance, there were many wealthy people who wanted to come here for a meeting, and the building management did this in order to prevent accidents.
Most people just take a look and go upstairs to work, but some are curious, or have some kind of fantasy, and it's a reporter, so they stay down there and see what's going on.
It was 10 o'clock in the morning, and someone finally passed through the security check and entered the elevator leading to the 60th floor and above, which also made those who had been waiting for it finally excited.
"Look, that's Leo, the chairman of New Dawn Investments, and Martin, the chairman of St. Martin's Investments, and Jamal, the chairman of the Caribbean Investment Company, and Madison, the CEO of Louis Investments, my God, these people are very famous financial investors in Brighton, why are they all here at the World Trade Towers today?
"I think it's very likely, after all, the current subprime mortgage crisis, the whole financial industry is laying off employees, but this is not a good way to solve the crisis, but it will aggravate the crisis, especially after the bankruptcy crisis of Brooke Investments, they can't think too much about themselves. And I've heard that they've been discussing several investment projects worth over $100 million before, and today's meeting must be related to that!"
"This is big news......"
The onlookers were enthusiastically analyzing, but the financial investors had already taken the elevator upstairs, and at the same time, if these people could be quiet, they could hear the sound of helicopters coming.
One of Brighton's most important financial buildings, the World Trade Center is designed with a helicopter apron on the top floor.
But anyone with a little common sense understands a truth: it is easy to buy an airplane, but it is difficult to fly.
This means that a private helicopter is only hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars, but anyone who can mix above the manager level in the financial circle can basically afford to buy at least one private helicopter, but in fact, very few people buy, the problem is that the general city is a no-fly zone, and the money required to get a helicopter flight license is not much lower than buying a private helicopter, and the usual maintenance and repair is also a big problem.
It is precisely for these reasons that only the wealthy of those luxurious families are left to walk around in private helicopters, and the only person who can have such a high profile is Adams's patriarch Christo, when the helicopter stops on the roof, he immediately walks off the plane and goes to the conference room on the roof.
At this time, Jamel Madison's financial investors were already waiting here, although they were already 'big shots' in the eyes of ordinary people and the media, but in the face of Christo, the patriarch of a big family, they could only sit there cautiously like elementary school students, waiting to ask Christo questions.
Christo sat down unceremoniously on the upper seat, he looked around and nodded lightly and said: "Since everyone has arrived, let's talk about the situation, since your CDS contract was sold to that Chinese, has anything happened in the CDS market?"
Faced with this question, everyone looked at each other, and finally Jamal Jarmal, chairman of the Caribbean Investment Company, replied: "No, and since you last came to us, sir, we have also thought about what conspiracy the Chinese might use these contracts for, but we have not seen the Chinese in the Barton Tavern in the past two days." ”
As Jamal answered, everyone else shook their heads and said no.
Christo raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet and said, "I already know your answer, that's it for today, you can go back." ”
Saying that Christo was about to stand up, his move suddenly shocked everyone, no one thought that Christo would leave with only one question, this is too inexplicable, right? Although there is a gap between everyone's identities, they are also the chairmen of various investment companies, and they have a great position here in Brighton, so why don't they say a word, right?
Christo seemed to see the surprise and dissatisfaction in the hearts of these people, and he pointed to the middle-aged man who came with him: "If you have anything else, just tell my butler." ”
With these words, Christo ignored these people and left the conference room on his own.
However, Christo did not leave by helicopter after leaving, but went to the next room to rest, and only a moment later, his butler also came in.
"Sir, according to the feedback from those investors just now, all their companies are running well, and all their businesses are being carried out in an orderly manner, and they have all brought their company's financial statements......"
The butler's words came to an abrupt end here, because he could see that although Christo took the property documents he gave him, he threw them directly on the table and did not look at them much, obviously he was not interested in them, so he asked: "Sir, are you still worried about the Chinese?"
It wasn't until Christo reacted to this question, he looked up at the butler and said, "What do you think about that Chinese? Why did he buy so many CDS contracts in the market? With the subprime mortgage crisis he made, isn't the value of those contracts themselves getting lower and lower? Everyone in the market is selling, and the price is falling again and again, why does he still buy such things?"
"If he's going to buy these contracts and sell them, but I don't think it's profitable to do so, because no matter how low the price is, someone has to buy it, and if no one cares, there's no way to trade, and more importantly, he doesn't seem to be going to sell, so what is he going to do?" asked Christo, frowning.
"Perhaps he was going to hold these contracts, just as he had defrauded Brooke of the mortgaged properties, and he would rent them out to the minorities, and then collect the rent from the minorities, and promise to own the property automatically after a certain number of years, which would bring him very good money in the future. ”
The butler continued: "As far as I know, the price of these CDS contracts is about five times higher than the current selling price, assuming that the Chinese buys a contract of 200 million US dollars now, then in ten years, his 200 million US dollars can become a billion US dollars, which is definitely a very good deal, so I am very confident that the Chinese will make such a decision this time." ”
"You also mentioned that that's just maybe, after all, the CDS contract lasts too long, and his credit rating is constantly declining after the subprime mortgage crisis, even many big insurance companies are not willing to take this risk, let alone the Chinese, I believe he will never do this, this is his vision, and more importantly, my own intuition." Crystal said.
The butler was a little puzzled and said, "Please forgive me, sir, I don't understand why you think like this, it's just a very ordinary Chinese." ”
"But six months ago, I couldn't believe that the subprime loans with a credit rating of A plus would change, and I couldn't believe that Bruker Investments would face bankruptcy as a result. Christo reminded his butler.
"Maybe it was just an accident, because no one thought that the Chinese would be able to persuade those minorities to give up their houses and credits and oppress Brooke in this way, plus that Brooke idiot himself made an unforgivable mistake, and there would be a final result." "But now it's different, these CDS contracts are completely safe." ”
Christo waved his hand and signaled the housekeeper to go out, he put all the company's financial statements on his office desktop, looking at these companies, Christo still only had one idea in his heart: what did this Zhou Ming want to do.
In fact, since Christo knew that Zhou Ming bought more than $200 million in CDS contracts at Barton Tavern, he has been thinking about this question, but there is always no answer.
At this moment, Christo actually regretted that he made the decision to help Robert avenge him, although he had done a very guilty thing when he was young, so he kept putting up with Robert and raised him into a very nasty temper, and even this time just to hear him call himself father, he did it to Zhou Ming.
But at that time, I just thought that I was just an ordinary Chinese, where could I have imagined that there would be such a result today?
But there is no turning back from the bow, since the matter has been done, it will be useless to regret it, and even if you let yourself do it all over again, you will definitely still agree to Robert, but the only thing to pay attention to is Zhou Ming's methods, after all, as far as Zhou Ming does those things, there is almost no margin for error at all, as long as he destroys any of them, all of Zhou Ming's plans will not be completed.
However, no matter how Christo thinks, he always can't get around Zhou Ming's hurdle: what is he going to do?