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Chapter 1350 The gluttonous feast
When Bear Stearns was forcibly swallowed by Morgan at a price of 600 million US dollars, those people with a lot of cash flow and strong network resources knew that a gluttonous feast had kicked off. Sharing the cake this time may affect the pattern of America in the next ten years or even longer!

Just when the outside world was still in shock and discussion, another big thunder broke out. The Lehman Brothers investment bank officially declared bankruptcy. This impact on Wall Street and America was far greater than the acquisition of Bear Stearns. Just like many people think, it is impossible for the five major investment banks on Wall Street to fall, but this time they did, completely impacting the worldview of countless people in America.

Then there was a heated debate in America as to why the federal finance rescued Bear Stearns but not the Lehman Brothers investment bank. The subprime mortgage industry is as high as 450 billion US dollars, which is much bigger than the pit of Bear Stearns. The federal finances dare not go into the water to save people, fearing that they will be drowned.

However, there are also rumors that Paulson, the boss of the federal finance department, and Dick Fold, the investment bank president of Lehman Brothers, are sworn enemies. Paulson wants to use the head of Lehman Brothers to kill chickens and monkeys and teach Wall Street institutions a lesson. , Let them stop playing tricks in the future, and be careful to play themselves to death, so I watched Lehman Brothers fall!
It’s hard to say whether the news is true or not, but the rumors from the outside world have their noses and eyes. After all, the Lehman Brothers investment bank really fell, leaving a huge hole in the mess. Did it fall by itself, or Paulson did not save him? It doesn't matter anymore, after all, dead people can't speak!
And just when the Lehman Brothers investment bank collapsed, and two of the five major investment banks on Wall Street had either changed hands or went bankrupt, there was another news that shocked Wall Street and the global investment industry. Merrill Lynch, another of the five major investment banks on Wall Street, It was acquired at a price of 410 billion U.S. dollars, and the acquirer was an acquisition consortium jointly formed by Deutsche Bank Investment Bank, PayPal, North American Global Investment Foundation, Bruno Family Fund, etc.!

After the acquisition was completed, Deutsche Bank Investment Bank and PayPal immediately announced that they had received a long-term interest-free dollar of $195 billion issued by the Federal Treasury and the Federal Reserve System to solve Merrill Lynch's debt problem.

It's still a familiar style, just like Morgan's, the main thing is a free prostitute, but this time Deutsche Bank Investment Bank and PayPal are more or less real money!

Since then, three hundred-year-old stores on Wall Street, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch, have all disappeared on Wall Street. Even if they can still appear in front of the world in the future, they will never be the same as before.

The joint acquisition of Merrill Lynch allowed Deutsche Bank Investment Bank to fully integrate into Wall Street and America. From then on, no one can say that Deutsche Bank Investment Bank is an outsider, unless Merrill Lynch is also expelled from America.

With the help of Merrill Lynch, a century-old store, PayPal was successfully selected as one of the top investment banks in America, and the Bruno family's consortium was officially established!

After the joint acquisition of Merrill Lynch with Deutsche Bank Investment Bank, the Song Yang camp started a berserk mode, buying and buying all the way. First, PayPal acquired the Comerica Bank, and then successively acquired San Francisco East West Bank, British Barclays Bank, British Columbia Sunrock and other banks have made PayPal the top five giants in the banking industry in America in one fell swoop.

When PayPal was killing the Quartet, Alcatel Group also suddenly released heavy news, announcing that it would package Motorola's entire mobile phone business department at a price of 94 billion US dollars, including brand, technology, patents, engineers and technicians, and R&D. Personnel, etc., have become the industries under the Alcatel Group!

Alcatel Group announced that Motorola will appear in the mobile phone industry as a "third-party" mobile phone company in the future, equipped with the Android system.

The acquisition of Motorola will allow Alcatel to build the most powerful patent empire in the global mobile phone industry. Any mobile phone manufacturer must pay patent tolls to this patent empire, and nothing less will do.

In addition to Motorola's patents, technology, and engineers, after the acquisition of Motorola, Motorola will be positioned as a low-end mobile phone brand in the future. Together with Alcatel's high-end brand phones, it can cover the entire mobile phone industry chain. Both the high-end and low-end mobile phone markets can be sold, and Motorola can also be used to snipe other opponents.

Motorola's popularity and influence are there. Compared with Alcatel's establishment of a new brand, the influence is much greater. As long as the price of the new machine is right and the product is not outdated, the buyers will never be discouraged!
When the Alcatel Group acquired Motorola, companies in the Song Yang camp, such as Double Click, Fortigate, and ICQ, also received a large sum of money from the parent company North America Global Investment Foundation, and began to attack everywhere. !
Fortinet was the first to spread the news that it was born as an Internet antivirus software, and it had been looked down upon by many established antivirus software companies before, but Fortinet made a big move this time, claiming that it would acquire the American company for tens of billions of dollars. McAfee, a major anti-virus software company, Fortinet directly became the largest anti-virus software company in America and the world.

On the other side of ICQ, there is no less news that it has reached an acquisition agreement with the Bancroft family, the major shareholder of the Wall Street Journal. ICQ will acquire Dow Jones Corporation at a price of 45 billion US dollars. The newspaper is the Wall Street Journal!
When it was reported that the Bancroft family's century-long rule over Dow Jones was ended, and the Wall Street Journal was also merged into ICQ's news media department, in the future Wall Street will have the entire America, and even the world's most influential After one of the newspapers, The Wall Street Journal, also belonged to ICQ, many financial media in America were silent for a while. Even though they reported various big news all the year round, when it came to them, they still felt that it was really hard to swallow. .

After the acquisition of the Wall Street Journal, ICQ turned its blade and suddenly aimed at another media newspaper.

"The Wall Street Telegraph was acquired?!"

The executive director of the Wall Street Telegraph, Splet, returned to the office of the Wall Street Telegraph after lunch. He heard that because of the recent performance problems and the turmoil outside, the advertisers who will invest in the Wall Street Telegraph in the next quarter There are already very few of them, and the revenue is almost gone. The telegraph board of directors is planning to reduce expenses to cope with the cold winter, and wants to reduce part of the manpower.

Spruit doesn't want to be kicked out at this juncture. He is exposed to the news every day, so he knows what's going on outside. The streets of New York are full of taxis driven by Uber drivers wandering around, and there are Uber deliverymen everywhere. Running meals.

Now that the market is not good, countless people get together and sign up for Uber as drivers. Who would have imagined that one day, Uber drivers will become the existence of delicious meat and potatoes!

But as soon as he arrived in front of the Wall Street Telegraph office, Spruitt saw a group of security guards with amazing size guarding the door, which made him feel bad.

Just when he was about to enter the office, he heard the security personnel from Heishui standing at the door telling him the news of the thunderbolt, and the company disappeared after just one meal? !
"This is an agreement reached between the board of directors of The Wall Street Telegraph and ICQ Group. The Wall Street Telegraph has been acquired. From now on, no one can enter this office again!"

The security personnel of Blackwater "friendly" told Splet about his current situation. As for what would happen if he forced his way in, Splet took a look at the opponent's size and wisely gave up the plan.

Hearing that the Wall Street Telegraph was acquired by ICQ, Spruitt's bad feeling became even stronger. He knew about the wrangling between the Wall Street Telegraph and ICQ's big financier. Over the years, the Wall Street Telegraph has not Knowing how many negative news about Song Yang have been reported, many of them were prepared by him himself, so it is not clear.

Although he felt bad, but it was related to his job, he still bit the bullet and said to several Blackwater security guards blocking the door, "What about us, we still need to work at the Wall Street Telegraph!"

"I don't need it now. You have all been fired. ICQ's legal counsel will contact you later to deal with your severance pay, compensation and other issues. Of course, you can also sue ICQ!"

Splet's eyes darkened. He didn't expect ICQ to act so decisively. They bought the Wall Street Telegraph and wiped them all out. It was obvious that they wanted to tear down the Wall Street Telegraph. .

As for the compensation, a company as big as ICQ will definitely not lose Spruit, but... there is no problem with delaying it. There are many reasons, such as problems with his previous work. The news is suspected of violating regulations and so on. If he refuses to accept it, Spruitt will sue ICQ. ICQ will either refuse to pay him compensation, or delay it for a few years. Consuming with ICQ, it depends on who can't hold it first!
He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but Splet couldn't say it. When he was embarrassing Song Yangtian in the past, he also thought that one day he would cause trouble. This way of being kicked out was something he never thought of .

After the Wall Street Telegraph was acquired by ICQ, it quietly disappeared on Wall Street. The newspaper stopped publishing and the website was canceled directly, as if it had never appeared in this world.

"Song!"

"Director Welch!"

Immelt took a deep breath, and followed Welch into a place he never wanted to step into in his life.

In the San Jose Manor, Immelt saw Song Yang shaking hands with Welch and hugging him, then walked towards him with a smile on his face.

"President Immelt, long time no see!"

(End of this chapter)