Back to 1995

Chapter 161
The lobby of a hotel in New York was in chaos at the moment. Nearly 350 investment companies, as well as some large individual futures investors, gathered here.

At this moment, in the past, in the futures market, these investment institutions, which were regarded as bankers and big dogs, and who harvested common futures investors' leeks, were all angrily cursing at the few people on the stage.

"You are a monopoly, we will sue you to the American Trade Commission!"

"America Telecom is the vulture with Goldman Sachs!"

"This line must not be allowed to enter Wall Street, it is unfair competition!"

Hundreds of small and medium-sized investment institutions on Wall Street are all attacking in unison with righteous indignation. If it weren't for the hotel lobby, there is a large group of security personnel from the Blackwater Company standing there, these people may have rushed up.

Spivey and Marcus, who were sitting in front of the hotel lobby, looked at the scene below blankly. Fortunately, before the Dutch auction was held, Song Yang asked Heishui Security to send a team over in advance, otherwise Maybe they will really make trouble, these Wall Street companies are all bold and capable of doing anything.

Blackwater is currently building a team, setting up a security company in America, and setting up offices in New York, Los Angeles, Washington and other places to provide security services for some companies, celebrities, universities, hotels, etc.

Externally, mercenaries are invested, and they are still in training. The popularity of Blackwater is not very high now, but as America continues to send mercenaries outside, as long as Blackwater can participate, orders and popularity will soon increase!

Both Spivey and Marcus looked at the following blankly. Today, these futures investment companies on Wall Street gathered together. After the announcement of America Telecom's Chicago Wall Street line project, more than 100 seats were allocated by Goldman Sachs, Deutsche When giants such as banking and investment banks bought it, there were only [-] seats left, and when they let [-] companies snatch it, the pot immediately exploded without accident.

There are more than 350 companies competing for [-] seats. If you think about it with your heels, you know that more than half of them will be completely driven out of the futures market, or reduced to leeks. Li, this is related to the tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in profits of these companies every year, it is strange to be willing to throw it away!

Sitting among the crowd in the lobby of the hotel was a middle-aged man with a puffy belly. He also had a sad expression on his face. If Professor Tristan was here at this moment, he would definitely feel very familiar. This man has been on TV several times. , Wall Street investor Christian Barnard, who had a crush on Tristan.

Christian Barnard's company on Wall Street is also involved in futures investment. Although it is not his main business, losing this business will at least make Christian Barnard feel bad for a while.

The investment companies sitting below are constantly cursing, and they are also asking about the origin of this "American Telecom". Wall Street is the most well-informed place in the world, not to mention that Song Yang has also visited several major Wall Street investment banks in the past few days. .

Even though they still couldn't figure out the relationship between this "American Telecom" and Song Yang, the various investment banks present quickly raised some eyebrows, knowing that America Telecom must have a lot to do with Song Yang, an Internet upstart.

"Let Bruno Song come out!"

In the crowd below, someone yelled, and then there was an uproar in the crowd. I don't know how this matter got involved with Song Yang.

Christian Barnard was stunned for a moment when he heard Song Yang's name, and then heard that America Telecom, which suddenly appeared and cut off their source of income, was probably a company invested by Song Yang, Christian Barnard Barnard's face was quite expressive.

Barnard, who has never believed in evil, couldn't help but feel that "the road to the enemy is narrow". Last year, he went on NBC TV to argue with Tristan whether the Internet is a scam. He believes that the Internet is simply a money-losing product that does not make money .

As a result, in the blink of an eye, Song Yang established the double-click company, which took up the banner of Internet digital advertising, and brought the global Internet into a new era. The Internet seems to be "profitable"!
The Internet, which was looked down upon by Christian Barnard, has not been too hot since last year. Since Netscape went public, its stock price has increased by nearly ten times. As long as the company has anything to do with the Internet, it is about to go crazy.

As for Barnard's investment company, because it did not allocate Internet stocks, its earnings last year were not bad, but compared with other investment companies, it was something that investors disliked.

Barnard had to start investing in Internet companies, saying that the Internet was full of bubbles, but Barnard had to buy Internet stocks, otherwise all investors would run away.

But now, Barnard's investment company is lying on the ground again. Looking at the two Spiveys on the stage, Barnard's cheeks twitch. It's not that he has to go to the church to get rid of evil by the priest, as long as he meets Song Yang, nothing good will happen!
Marcus of the old Jianghu, facing this kind of scene, was very calm, slapped the table hard, and shouted directly into the microphone in front of him, "America Telecom will not force any company to use America Telecom's services, If you don't want to use America Telecom's lines, you can leave now!"

There was still a lot of scolding at the scene, but none of the companies left the scene. What a joke, scolding is scolding, but which Wall Street company can make money without making money, and if it doesn’t make money, it really can’t make money. Don't let these Wall Street companies let go of the profits of US dollars.

"America Telecom, the line seat from Chicago to Wall Street, starts with a five-year agreement. The seat cannot be transferred after the auction. The auction price for the first seat is 500 million dollars!"

Regardless of the quarrel below, Marcus and Spivey started the auction. The so-called Dutch auction is an auction in which the price goes from high to low, and the price is continuously reduced.

This is a kind of psychological game. At the beginning, the price must be inflated. It depends on whether there are bids. Unless there is no bidder, the price will continue to be lowered until someone starts bidding.

But this has a disadvantage, that is, the price of the auction item is low, but it may not be possible to grab it, especially for today's situation, more than 300 companies, grabbing [-] seats, and most of the companies will definitely grab it in the end. Not in hand!

The first bid, but no one responded, Spivey and Marcus were not in a hurry, even if all the bids for American Telecom were passed up today, they were not in a hurry. Helping a Wall Street company and suffering a big loss in the futures market, they will naturally come to ask for cooperation.

"Twenty-five million dollars..."

"Twenty-five million dollars..."

When the auction price was reduced by 100 million, a representative of a Wall Street company suddenly raised his hand.

All the colleagues present, especially those small investment companies, all looked at the company representative who raised their hands with murderous eyes.

But the representative of this Wall Street company is not afraid at all. The Wall Street investment company he works for is not comparable to Deutsche Bank Investment Bank, Morgan, Merrill Lynch, etc., but it is also in the second echelon, and the annual income in the futures industry is also ten dollars. The number of digits is about US dollars.

Just now, America Telecom was called a vampire, but it's a curse. How could this investment company fail to see the help of America Telecom's line to their company.

When this Wall Street investment company spent 400 million US dollars to take four seats from American Telecom, and then went directly to the hotel room to sign the agreement and leave, the hotel lobby was full of curses again.

But in the following auction, the number of companies who took action to snatch the seats on the line increased significantly. When the price dropped to 2000 million US dollars, the [-] seats were swarmed to grab less than [-] seats!

Barnard, who was sitting below, couldn't bear it any longer. Just when Spivey called out 900 million and 50 dollars per seat, Barnard immediately stood up, although his heart was bleeding, But Barnard was afraid that if he didn't make a move, his investment company would be completely out of the game.

"Say hello to Bruno Song for me!"

After signing and tearing off the check, Barnard almost gritted his teeth and said something to Spivey.

Spivey looked at the leaving Barnard in confusion. There are many companies that have objections to American Telecom, but like Barnard, he is the first one who looks at odds with Song Yang!
On America Telecom's side, when the auction line seats were in full swing, Song Yang also double-clicked the New York branch company and met the three companies responsible for underwriting stocks.

On the side of Deutsche Bank, it is naturally impossible for Edison to come in person. This kind of thing has not yet reached the point where he can attend in person. The person who came was Edison's disciple Anshu Jain.

Merrill Lynch is similar to Deutsche Bank Investment Bank, and Stan O'Neill did not come, and an executive in charge of securities business was sent here.

The so-called enemies are extremely jealous when they meet. When the people from Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch meet, the double-click in the conference room and the people from Goldman Sachs can smell gunpowder through the air.

The person sent by Goldman Sachs was Paulson's confidant, Pellet Greene. At the moment, he looked at the Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank with big eyes.

Whitman coughed, and finally made Merrill Lynch and the people from Deutsche Bank sit down, even though they were still staring at each other, but they didn't make a move. They all know each other, maybe even went to parties and went to nightclubs together a few years ago, but now they regard each other as enemies.

"Congratulations, Song, today's auction is very exciting!"

Pellet Greene said to Song Yang that, as the boss of Wall Street, no trouble could be hidden from Goldman Sachs' eyeliner.

Pellet Greene is also representing Goldman Sachs, and he is showing affection to Song Yang. When Goldman Sachs learned of the American Telecom project, it immediately raised Song Yang's rank in Goldman Sachs several times. This time, Goldman Sachs took the double-click The underwriting of the company's listed stocks is also a gesture of favor to Song Yang.

In America, who can refuse a partner who is worth a billion dollars, or even 20 billion dollars, even Goldman Sachs can't refuse!

　Let's talk about it. Can you make up the chapter that is owed tomorrow? I'm a little hungry.

　
(End of this chapter)