Chapter 1859 Broker

After lunch and resting for a while, when Xiao Qi and his two wives were about to take the elevator downstairs, a person came over from the side.

Seeing that he was going straight to Xiao Qi, a bodyguard immediately struck him and pinned him against the wall.

"Don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong!" The white man in his twenties struggled and said, "I'm not a bad guy! I'm Sam's friend, and I have a big business deal with Mr. Xiao!"

The other bodyguard didn't care what he said, and stretched out his hand to feel around him, but he didn't find any suspicious weapons, so he let go of his hand a little.

Xiao Qi looked at the name tag on his body, nodded his head, and the man was free.

"Hello, Mr. Xiao, my name is Morakot Thain, and John Thain from Merrill Lynch is my father." The man came to Xiao Qi, and stretched out his hand while arranging his clothes.

After shaking hands with him, Xiao Qi asked, "What business do you want to discuss with me?"

"It's like this, Mr. Xiao, can we find a place to talk slowly?" Seeing Xiao Qi's kind attitude, Morakot said with a little more confidence, looking at him expectantly.

"Tell me what kind of business it is first." Xiao Qi smiled, "It's not that I don't like it, it's just that Mr. Thain, if the business is too small, it doesn't make sense for you to find me, right?"

"It's definitely not small! It's definitely not small!" Thain looked around and found that almost all of them were from Huaguo, so he whispered knowingly: "Mr. Xiao, I have three big deals in my hand, which add up to more than 20 billion yuan. You must be interested in US dollars."

Xiao Qi's heart skipped a beat.

It happened that the elevator door opened, Xiao Qi said to Taylor and Tang Mingxiang: "Go shopping and have a rest first, I will come to you later."

"Humph!"

Taylor, who had already put on his sunglasses, entered the elevator with a cold snort, obviously dissatisfied with Morakot who suddenly appeared.

Tang Mingxiang was naturally more sensible than her, as she nodded slightly. He also took the nanny and several bodyguards into the elevator.

"Let's go, find a quieter coffee shop." When the door was closed, Xiao Qi turned around, "I hope the business is really as you said."

"I won't lie to you!" Morakot said with a smile on his face, "This way please, we go down the stairs, and there is an authentic Cuban coffee shop two floors away. The taste is the most authentic."

Ten minutes later, the two sat in the coffee shop.

It was already working hours, and there were not many people drinking coffee, so he found a few booths in a remote corner where Xiao Qi's bodyguards sat, and then he carefully drank a few sips of coffee to stabilize his mind, Organize what you want to say.

Xiao Qi was not in a hurry, in fact he also guessed something, if it was what he expected. Well, Morakot came to the door today, so he really found the right person!

"Mr. Xiao, do you know what my father said in an interview a few days ago?" Morakot knew that Xiao Qi would not listen to his nonsense, so he cut to the point: "About the heavy loss of Merrill Lynch and the sale of several valuable assets, come on. Do you know how to make up for the write-down of your own assets?"

It really is this!

When Xiao Qi nodded lightly, his heart became excited.

Fairy Company has always paid attention to the collection of domestic and foreign financial intelligence. Various news agencies, professional newspapers and magazines, and even several professional business intelligence companies. They all provided Xiao Qi with various news.

After sorting out by the little beauty's secretaries, on average, Xiao Qi reads more than dozens of documents every day, totaling tens of thousands of words.

Although most of them are just looking at a general idea, Xiao Qi has an impression of the important news in general, let alone what happened to the super giant Merrill Lynch.

When I had nothing to do in my previous life. Xiao Qi often reads some posts on various forums on the Internet, and many of the forums have hindsight, so Xiao Qi can also see the detailed analysis of many major events that happened before from their post-mortems.

The collapse of Merrill Lynch, one of the five major investment banks, is an event hyped up by economists. They thought of many ideas, saying that if so, Merrill Lynch would not go bankrupt.

But judging from Xiao Qi's own experience in this life, things are not as simple as these people say. First of all, the confrontation between Wall Street and the US government is an unsolvable problem.

In the end, Wall Street was driven into a hurry, and several already difficult investment banks, insurance companies, financial mortgage companies, etc. closed down one after another. This can be regarded as a protest against the US government's lack of assistance.

Then the U.S. government couldn't hold it anymore, and they were afraid that more companies would go bankrupt, so they could only choose to compromise.

To some extent, Wall Street has succeeded.

So it can also be said that the collapse of Merrill Lynch is absolutely inevitable. It has nothing to do with how many non-performing assets they have and whether their debts are too urgent to delay!

In fact, you can see that although these companies have closed down, their various executives are still flourishing and earning a lot of dollars. These executive positions and salaries are not given by the companies and banks that still exist in Goldman Sachs ?

However, whether Merrill Lynch goes bankrupt or not has nothing to do with Xiao Qi.

Oh no, it should be related.

The superficial reason for Merrill Lynch is that there were too many write-downs of assets, and the main item of write-downs of assets was the loss of tens of billions of dollars in financial products of subordinated debts.

And among these tens of billions, Xiao Qi also earned a share. When Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, etc. went bankrupt one after another at the end of the year, Xiao Qi's monthly income could cover the previous half a year!

The teenager is now concerned about those high-quality assets that Merrill Lynch will and will not sell next.

Just at the beginning of June, Merrill Lynch's CEO John Thain, Morakot's father, said in an interview that Merrill Lynch wanted to Sell ​​some assets, such as a 20% stake in Bloomberg News worth US$5 billion, a 37% stake in a financial data service company worth US$4 billion, and a 49.8% stake in Black Rock Group worth US$12 billion.

All three companies are high-quality assets with good profitability.

Its financial data company mainly focuses on banking services. The company is small, but very professional. 30% of the banks in the world have adopted their service terminals and equipment.

Bloomberg News is even more powerful, its founder Michael? Bloomberg. Now he is being re-elected as the mayor of New York City. From 2001 to 2013, he served as mayor for 12 years in one breath. The salary he receives from New York every year is 1 dollar, which is the same as that received by Joe Gang at Apple.

And the difference between him and Qiao Gangzhu is that Qiao Gangzhu also has some rewards such as equity incentives. Bloomberg not only does not have these, but also donates hundreds of millions of dollars every year to improve the living environment in New York, which is deeply loved by the people of New York.

If it weren't for the rule that an official can only serve three consecutive terms, the people of New York would like him to be in office forever.

The biggest backing for him to do so is his Bloomberg News Agency, the world's largest financial information service provider, with a market value of more than 25 billion U.S. dollars, and he owns 62% of its shares, which is 15.5 billion U.S. dollars. Ranked among the top 50 richest people in the world.

By April 2013, Forbes announced the richest list, and he ranked 13th in the world with a net worth of more than 27 billion U.S. dollars, and his skyrocketing net worth was naturally due to the growing prosperity of Bloomberg. What a great investment value!

Needless to say, the last Black Rock Group, does its English name blckrock look familiar? Like blcksone of the world's largest private equity fund Blackstone Group?

In fact, the Black Rock Group was spun off from the asset management department of the Black Rock Group. Now it has become the world's largest asset management listed company with a market value of more than 24 billion US dollars.

To become the world's largest asset management company. It has proven how good it is!

Thoughts flashed by.

Seeing Xiao Qi signaled that he knew, Morakot lowered his voice again: "You also know that my father was ordered in a crisis last December, but now Merrill Lynch's mess is too serious, and it's time to sell high-quality assets to survive! Look at the shares of Bloomberg, Financial Data Services, and Black Rock Group, which one are you interested in? I can help you promote the acquisition!"

Xiao Qi raised his eyebrows. After looking at him for a while, until Morakot felt a little unnatural, he said: "Mr. Thain, Mayor Bloomberg once made an appointment with Merrill Lynch. If he wants to sell 20% of the shares of Bloomberg News. He has the right of first acquisition. The same There is also Black Rock Group, whose 49.8% of the stock is a strategic investment. If it is sold, it must be approved by the Black Rock Group’s board of directors. The last financial data service company originally had capital from Kuwait Investment Authority, Qatar Royal Management Fund and other capitals. This 37% share is also inevitable for them, and they have the first opportunity, right?"

Morakot smiled embarrassingly: "You know it all!"

He originally wanted to match Xiao Qi and Merrill Lynch. Even if the acquisition failed in the end, he could still earn some money as a broker.

But I didn't expect Xiao Qi to understand it so deeply, his little cleverness would naturally be useless.

Just when he was thinking about how to say goodbye, Xiao Qi suddenly asked: "We meet today, who else knows besides Sam?"

"Sam? He doesn't know." Morakot shook his head. "He just bragged to me that you also ate in the restaurant. Afterwards we went downstairs and I came up again. No one knew I was looking for you."

Xiao Qi nodded, and motioned to a bodyguard next to him. He immediately took out a big thick envelope from the briefcase, walked over and put it on the table.

Under Xiao Qi's gesture, Morakot picked it up and took a look, and suddenly found that it was full of U.S. bearer bonds, all with a face value of 5,000 US dollars, at least two to three hundred thousand here!

Morakot's breathing became tight: "Mr. Xiao..."

"I haven't seen you, and you haven't seen me." Xiao Qi said lightly: "Tonight, in Room 903, Apartment 11 Broadway, Manhattan, I have prepared a bottle of champagne. If Mr. Thain goes wrong room, you can come over for a drink."

Morakot suddenly realized!

Putting the envelope into his bag, he walked out of the room without saying a word. (To be continued, please search Leduwo, the novel is better and updated faster!

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