Chapter 437: A full-blown financial crisis
Zhang Bin's investment began.
All you have to do is meet Warren Buffett.
Four billion dollars, plus his own $1.4 billion, a total of $5.4 billion, were all invested in the futures market.
Of course, Ivor will fully support it, and he transferred several top traders from Goldman Sachs, plus Hao Ren, to start diversifying the billions of dollars.
The amount of funds is too large to attract targets, and they need to break up all these billions of dollars and invest them in the market to avoid causing too much price volatility.
Ivor temporarily gave up his position as the head of London and was fully responsible for Zhang Bin's investment.
Goldman Sachs has already promised him that as long as he completes the goal here, he will be transferred back to the headquarters next year, and he can even consider transferring him to the decision-making level, that is, to the top level.
Such a temptation is not small for Ivre, so for Zhang Bin's support, he also spares no effort, hoping that Zhang Bin can create a miracle.
In three days, O'Neill found four people to help him.
And the first task given to him by Zhang Bin was to acquire 20 million shares of Apple stock.
According to Apple's stock at this time, the price of 20 million shares should be in the billions of dollars to nearly $2 billion.
So many stock acquisitions are made one after another, and there is no need to come up with so much money in a short period of time.
Once there is a profit generated in futures, it can be directly converted into Apple shares.
The more profits, the more shares.
Funds cannot be invested in futures unlimitedly, and the operation of funds requires multi-faceted circulation, which is not easy for outsiders to know how much money you have invested and how much money you have earned.
However, for Zhang Bin's large-scale increase in Apple's shares, O'Neill expressed his views.
"Apple's current stock price is going all the way down, and the boss has confirmed that he wants to increase his holdings so much? Once it continues to decline, the loss will be very serious", O'Neill is more careful now, and generally does not take the initiative to doubt the boss's decision, but for the stocks that many people are selling at this time, Zhang Bin has increased his holdings on a large scale, he is a little incomprehensible.
"You just do it, you can slow down a little, and you can complete the acquisition by the end of this year, and if other people ask, you can just say that it is being operated, and don't explain it for the time being," Zhang Bin ordered.
He is the majority shareholder of Global Investment Company, and then Paulson, but Paulson basically doesn't ask, that is, others will ask, and Zhang Bin doesn't want them to know that he has increased his holdings of Apple's shares for the time being, otherwise he will definitely intervene.
After the stock rebounded rapidly at the beginning of the next year, they naturally had nothing to say.
On October 5th, Zhang Bin met Tom at the Hanton Hotel.
Tom has recently been abroad in charge of the acquisition of Riot shares.
Because there are many investors involved, he needs to negotiate with each family.
But fortunately, up to now, Zhang Bin has completed the acquisition of 65% of Riot's shares, except for Tencent's 23%, and the rest is Riot's own shares.
"We are currently in talks with Riot, and it is estimated that all negotiations will be completed in November, and the full purchase price will be maintained at about $40 million," Tom said.
"Strive to complete the acquisition at the end of the year, and after the other side of the matter is over, you can start to contact FedEx, about the shareholding of FedEx, I have a plan for this matter", Zhang Bin said and took out a plan and handed it to Tom.
"The head of Global Investment is now O'Neal, and you strive to make a detailed plan with O'Neill on the matter of taking a stake in FedEx as soon as possible, in short, I want to get the news of Global Investment's stake in FedEx at the end of this year," Zhang Bin said.
At the beginning, his idea was to invest in the name of Hengyuan Group, but now that he thinks about it, he feels that global investment is more likely and the effect is greater.
This is also for FedEx, and anyone can see the result of being acquired by a little-known company and being acquired by a company controlled by many well-known companies.
The launch of Global Investment's launch was originally scheduled for early October, but Zhang decided to postpone it until November.
At that time, Global Investment had already increased its holdings in some Apple shares, and it would be more effective to hold a press conference.
Under the influence of the financial crisis, the investment companies in which many giants have invested in the company have gone against the current and invested in Apple, which no one is optimistic about, is not this news worth reporting.
On October 8, Zhang Bin left Washington and returned to China.
This is just the layout, and the end of the year is the time for the real harvest.
The first news after Zhang Bin came back was that Yu Junxue told him that the approval of the land project of the film and television city had come down, and the land planning for a total of 5,600 acres had come down.
Zhang Bin immediately met with Yu Junxue and had a long negotiation on the first phase of the bidding of the film and television city.
After all, so much money is involved, whether it is for Hengyuan Group or IELTS Group, it is not a small amount, and all aspects must be taken into account.
On October 12, Zhang Bin received a phone call.
On November 16, the Ministry of Commerce initiated an economic forum on how to deal with the financial crisis in the West and minimize the losses of enterprises.
The call was given to him by Ma Wenteng, who was one of the co-sponsors and Zhang Bin was on his first list of invitees.
The financial crisis has already dealt a heavy blow to Western countries led by the United States, and countries have begun to study rescue plans, although the power of the financial crisis has not yet begun to appear in China, but it is already beginning to brew.
As the big brother of the domestic Internet, Tencent Group is of course the first to bear the brunt of it.
Ma Wenteng can already predict the power of the financial crisis, as long as you are in contact with the world, then you will not be able to run away this time, and you will be affected to some extent.
The most affected by the crisis are financial companies, import and export companies, such as automobiles and the steel industry.
If you can't get money, your orders are backlogged, and you can't sell your goods, you can only face bankruptcy.
To be honest, Zhang Bin is personally not interested in this kind of economic forum.
If you want to survive, it's nothing more than a way, money.
As long as you have plenty of cash and a complete chain of funds, you can survive it.
How to get the funds, in addition to opening up sources and reducing expenditures, can only rely on the government to save the market.
Of course, actively looking for high-quality customers and orders, seeking more opportunities for cooperation, and ensuring the normal operation of funds are also necessary factors for the survival of the enterprise itself.
Zhang Bin's reply to Ma Wenteng is not necessarily, maybe he is still on vacation in the Seychelles in November, who cares about you, anyway, as long as my own business is not affected.
After dinner that day, Zhao Min asked about the financial crisis.
"Do you think this crisis has any impact on Meng Shangyi?" Zhao Min asked Zhang Bin.
It's really that this financial crisis is too big, and the outside world talks about this financial crisis at every turn, which makes Zhao Min feel a little upset in his heart.
Zhang Bin thought about it and said seriously: "In this financial crisis, the biggest impact in China should be the financial industry, and then the real estate, steel industry, automobiles, and daily necessities industries will definitely be the least affected, such as clothing, food, housing and transportation, etc., but because Mengshangyi is positioned as a middle- and high-income group, among this part of the population, the white-collar class is more affected, and their source of income depends on the stability of the company, if the company is unstable, their income will also be affected."
"You can do a questionnaire, such as a simple survey after the customer sells clothes, their occupation, the industry they work in, etc., you can give certain preferential measures and targeted responses, as for high-income people, they have a certain amount of savings, even if there is no source of income in the short term, it will not affect their daily life expenses, especially clothes and cosmetics."