After Lei Shengli and Xu Weishan said goodbye, Zhou Jiayang, who was in charge of financial business, was called in, but the difference was that An Qi, who had been taking notes before, was also asked out.
"How are Hutchison's preparations going?" Chen Zhiwen asked. This is the thing he is most concerned about recently, second only to retail and Midea.
"I have registered 600 new accounts overseas. Over in Indonesia, I have already spread the news. At the same time, I also paid local newspapers to report on Hutchison's one-year breach of contract. The newspapers have already come out, but here in Hong Kong There is no news yet, but it is probably coming soon," Zhou Jiayang said.
"Do you have that newspaper?" Chen Zhiwen asked. In the non-Internet era, if the headlines of this country do not affect other countries, then people in other countries may not know about them in their lifetime, and it will be difficult to find them. Even if they have an impact, It may also take a long time for the news to get through.
"Yes, I asked the newspaper to send me a few cents before." Zhou Jiayang had already prepared it.
"Well, then arrange for someone to contact the newspapers in Hong Kong and expose this matter. Today's media are eager to sensationalize and gain new customers. They will not let go of such breaking news." Chen Zhiwen said lightly.
"No problem, I know the editor-in-chief of the Economic Times. As long as this news is given to him, it will probably make the financial headlines the next day." Zhou Jiayang said with a smile.
"Okay, you control the time. When the news breaks out and Hutchison's stock is suppressed, you need to take over the stock immediately. Try to acquire more Hutchison shares without attracting attention." Chen Zhiwen said.
"Okay, as long as the control is good, acquiring another 5-10% should not be a problem, but I am worried about whether Hutchison's financial situation can be sustained." Zhou Jiayang said worriedly.
"How could one of the four major foreign banks go bankrupt so easily? The Hong Kong government will not let it go bankrupt." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.
Too big to fail, these four words are the "idiom" born in modern society, and to a certain extent, they are correct.
The collapse of any company will cause losses far beyond its own scale. Its partners, its suppliers, its customers, its creditors, its investors, etc. will be seriously affected. In these related Some of those who rely too much on this company may go bankrupt as a result, triggering a similar domino effect.
The larger the scale of a failed company, the damage caused will increase exponentially. To put it simply, take Hutchison as an example. If Hutchison collapses, employees will lose their jobs and suppliers will go bankrupt. It is a small matter. The most fatal thing is the bank. Given Hutchison's size, it also cooperates with many small banks in Hong Kong. Once these banks have funding problems due to Hutchison, it is very likely to cause a run on depositors, and the consequences will be far greater than the runs in the 1960s.
Even Hong Kong's quasi-central bank, HSBC, has lent hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars to Hutchison. Of course, HSBC's size will not cause it to go bankrupt, but it will be seriously affected.
In the modern business history of mankind, there have been many insolvent large companies in Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea, but governments and central banks could only grit their teeth and rescue them, such as the United States' strong support for the automobile industry, South Korea's rescue of Daewoo Group, etc. Etc., it is really because allowing such a large company to go bankrupt will cause such great economic harm that society cannot accept it.
Of course, there are some special cases. For example, during the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, the U.S. government did not rescue Lehman Bank and allowed it to go bankrupt. Far more than the funds needed to rescue Lehman in the first place, but not saving Lehman was also due to ZZ reasons, which was part of the White House's warning to Wall Street. After all, if it was saved every time, then the people on Wall Street would have more fun in the future, and there would be no Bottom line.
The impact on the real industry is not as great as that of such a big bank, but the harm caused is not small. Besides, Hutchison does not belong to the real industry. A company focusing on real estate should actually be a financial company.
"Then I will let the media release the news tomorrow, and the market will probably react soon." Zhou Jiayang said.
Chen Zhiwen nodded and said: "Okay, once Hutchison's stock price drops, you will start to acquire it immediately. You don't need to think about acquiring it when it reaches the lowest point. What I want is to increase the shares to close to a controlling proportion. The more acquisitions, the better." .”
The current market value of Hutchison is only HK$500 million, and it won't fall much further. The most stable thing is to acquire the stock.
"Okay, no problem, I know what to do." Zhou Jiayang nodded and said.
In an office building on Hong Kong Island, the Hong Kong Economic Journal's headquarters is located here.
"Director Li." In the office, Director Li, who was looking at documents, suddenly heard the sound at the door outside. He looked up and said with a smile, "Xiao Wang, come and sit down. What do you want from me?"
Speaking of Xiao Wang, Director Li is very satisfied recently. It has been more than two years since Xiao Wang joined the Hong Kong Economic and Technological News. He had always behaved very normally, but for some reason in the past six months, he has always been able to collect a lot of information in the first place. The information surprised him as the director. After a while, if he still performed well, he would be ready to promote Xiao Wang.
"Thank you, Director Li." Xiao Wang sat down politely, handed over an A4 paper in his hand, and said, "Director Li, a friend of mine in Indonesia sent this to me. Please take a look."
"Indonesia?" Director Li was a little confused. What does the matter in Indonesia have to do with our Hong Kong Economic and Trade News? Did some major international event happen?
Taking the document from Xiao Wang, the document was written in Indonesian and English. Director Li glanced at the content, his expression immediately changed, and he looked at the signature and seal in the lower right corner and asked, "Is this true?"
"Of course it's true. This is a copy of the document sent by the Indonesian government to the Indonesian branch of Hutchison Group. Even if you give me ten nerves, I wouldn't dare to fake this kind of document, right?" Xiao Wang explained.
"Since it is a document issued by the Indonesian government to Hutchison Group, how can you have it?" Director Li looked at Xiao Wang with a deep look and asked, forget it if there were some relatively accurate news before, after all, it is all about Hong Kong. Maybe the other party has some relationship, but this kind of document is definitely not something that can only be obtained by ordinary relationships. It is probably a planned plan.
"I have a friend who works at Hutchison and he gave it to me." Xiao Wang said calmly.
At this moment, he was also helpless. Half a year ago, someone suddenly came to him and said that he wanted to cooperate. He didn't believe it at first, but then the other party gave him cash and told him some valuable news, from which he gained a lot. benefit.
Although he also doubted the other party's purpose, the benefits he got were too good. Last night, when the other party gave him this news, he knew that he must be involved in something, but he couldn't refuse it.
"Okay, keep in touch with your friend and tell me if you have any new news." Director Li could tell there was something wrong at a glance, but he didn't expose it. Based on his intuition, there must be some conspiracy behind this news. It may not necessarily be illegal, but it definitely involves great interests. If you have too many things to do, there will definitely be no benefits, but there may not necessarily be disadvantages.
"Then, should this matter be on the news?" Xiao Wang asked.
"Go, it will be on the front page of the financial section tomorrow." Director Li said calmly. This is big news in itself, and there are obviously people behind it who are pushing it. If you don't post it, others will post it. In this case, it is naturally better to post the hot news yourself.
(End of chapter)
