Chapter 496: Stark Storm, Second Update, Please Vote!

Kai doesn't know much about finance, but he still has the basic logic. Since the stock has plummeted, why buy it?

Isn't this common sense?

Kai is not a person who likes to pretend to understand something, so he asked directly. →

"No! We Kingsman analysts have always believed that Tony Stallone is a genius, an epoch-making genius. The separation of the weapons manufacturing department is indeed a major blow to the Stark Group, but we all believe that this is only temporary. ” Afu explained the reason for his large number of bargain hunting.

One thing Kai had to admit was that Stark was indeed a genius. Who can make a set of steel armor from a pile of scraps? That thing can fly! Although it's not easy to control, in Kai's opinion it's pretty awesome.

"Oh, is that so? That's up to you."

"Yes. This kind of opportunity to buy the Stark Group at the bottom is rare. We will use the name of Wayne Group to absorb more stocks in the stock market and become one of the major shareholders of the Stark Group." The consortium held mutual support. Stocks are a very normal phenomenon. If a large consortium like Stark Group wants to become a major shareholder, it needs to hold at least more than 1% of the shares. Afu obviously has greater ambitions, and at least the two percent shareholding at this stage cannot satisfy his appetite.

After all, if nothing else, the patents and scientific research capabilities within the Stark Group are enough to make almost every organization in the world covet it. Kingsman is no exception. But because of Kingsman's special status, Kingsman is destined to be unable to directly hold shares in companies like Stark Group, which would cause dissatisfaction with the US government and SHIELD. Therefore, using Wayne Group to indirectly hold shares in an important technology company like Stark is undoubtedly the best choice.

Ah Fu looked at Kai and his eyes were filled with mosquito coils, so he decisively shut up.

No one is perfect. The master he serves does have great power, but he is not omniscient and omnipotent. Ah Fu has known this since he was young. But this does not affect Afu's loyalty to Kai at all. Isn't it the purpose of an excellent housekeeper to make the master he serves more perfect?

Leaving aside the small matters on Kai's side, the real excitement was the turmoil in the stock market.

As Stark announced the closure of the weapons production department, fierce quarrels immediately broke out within the Stark Group.

Those shareholders who had fallen because of the stock price convened a shareholders' meeting under the call of Stark's uncle Obadiah Stane, hoping that Tony could take back his life. Unfortunately, willfulness has always been synonymous with Tony Stark.

Young Master Huahua has no intention of changing his tune.

As a result, Stark Group's stock price began to fall crazily. In the past week, the stock price continued to fall by 5% per day. The overall decline in stock prices has exceeded 40%, but it has no intention of stopping. Except for the willful and conceited Tony, no one can bear such a terrible loss.

So at the latest shareholders' meeting, Obadiah announced to the public that Tony Stark needed to rest due to poor health and resigned from all his duties in the Stark Group. →At the same time, it is emphasized that Stark Group is still stable internally, please don't worry about this. The stock price plummeted continuously, making Tony, the uncle, unable to hold on.

However, such actions did not stabilize the stock price. On the contrary, because of Obadei's actions, it was interpreted by the outside world as the Stark Group had finally fallen into division. Then after the stock market opened the next morning, Stark Group's stock price began to plummet at an unimaginable speed!

This wasn't even fun. Just when Obadiah and a series of shareholders were thinking about it, two major shareholders suddenly announced their withdrawal and transferred their shares to Tony Stark!

This makes Tony Stark's shareholding suddenly exceed 47%!

Experts analyze that Tony Stark is planning to take back power of the company.

This immediately detonated the entire market!

The stock price that had plummeted began to rise rapidly!

This is not because the market has restored confidence. On the contrary, this is because everyone knows that a war is coming, and everyone wants to take advantage of this opportunity to make a lot of money.

The situation is now clear. Tony Stark does not want to be sidelined, but wants to take back control of the group, even at the cost of obtaining more than 51% of the absolute controlling stake. According to Tony Stark's always willful personality, once he takes control of the company, the divestiture of the weapons production department will inevitably occur.

Of course, it is impossible for other shareholders to accept such a result. In order to fight against Stark, they must acquire shares on the market before Stark completes his absolute control.

When other speculators see this situation, they will of course buy up Stark's stocks. As long as they reach a certain level, they can influence the direction of the Stark Group this time and have both sides. Doesn't that mean they can set whatever price they want?

So the three parties exerted their efforts, and the stock market was thrown into chaos.

Countless investors who sold stocks at low points regretted it. If they had known better, they would not have sold so quickly.

But what everyone didn't know was that just when Stark made the move, more than four percent of the shares quietly flowed to the name of Wayne Group.

Wayne Group is a relatively unremarkable company in the United States. The company's main business is the business of the former technology giant Valentine Group, which plays an important role in the communications field. But even so, it is still not very famous. After all, after Valentine's plane crash, the company did not change its name even if it was acquired. In addition, it was deliberately kept low-key, which led many people to only know the Valentine Group and not regard Wayne, the owner behind it. The group is not familiar with it.

Of course, this is only for ordinary people. Really thoughtful people are still aware of a powerful company like Wayne Group.

At the same time, some people also noticed that Wayne Group was quietly absorbing shares of Stark Group during the internal strife in Stark Group. →

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Pepper is very tired, and with a boss like Tony, Pepper will naturally not be able to relax. As the president's secretary, she was actually in charge of the daily operations of the entire group. She was already tired enough, but after waiting for Tony to turn the corner, the workload became even greater.

What's more important is that after Tony handed everything over to Pepper, he really didn't care about anything and focused on studying that steel armor in his underground laboratory.

Yes, this share war was orchestrated by Pepper.

"Pepper! I hope you can persuade Tony! He should understand that doing this will only benefit outsiders, but will destroy everything that Howard and I have built!" Obadiah made a final effort, he really wanted to Kill Tony and take over, but not now!

A series of events have put Tony under the spotlight. Obaday is not a fool, so it is naturally impossible to kill Tony at this time. That will only put yourself in a disadvantageous situation.

"Mr. Stannie... you should know Tony. Once he makes a decision, it is impossible to change it. There is nothing I can do about it." Pepper can understand Tony's decision, but if he really wants to support it, it is really not possible, but who can say that? Does she like Tony? She was willing to support Tony in everything he did.

"I want to see Tony, I need to talk to him in person." Obaday said seriously.

"If you insist... Jarvis!" Pepper shouted from the living room.

"Yes, Miss Pepper."

"Dial Tony for me."

"Please wait a moment."

After a while, Jarvis said: "Master Tony refuses to visit."

"Just say Mr. Stanney wants to see him," Pepper continued.

After a while: "Hello?"

Obaday immediately shouted: "Tony! Where are you!"

"Oh! Stannie! How are you doing?"

"Listen Tony, I'm not here to argue. I don't want to conflict with you. I grew up watching you. But what you are doing now is hurting me and the entire company. I hope you can calm down."

Obaday was Howard Stark's friend and business partner, and became Tony Stark's mentor after Howard's death. On Tony's part, he has always trusted Obaday and has always done so until now. Even though they have always had ideological conflicts over the future of the company. Tony still trusted him.

"No, I'm calm, Stany. I know you can't understand my decision, and I don't blame you. But it must be done."

Obadiah felt agitated.

"Where are you? I want to meet and talk to you."

"Oh, you'll have to wait a while."

"I can wait! Where are you?"

"On the road, on the way to Afghanistan!"

"What?!" Obaday said in surprise.

Just as he was talking to Obaday, a bright flash of fire was streaking over the sea west of Los Angeles.

Tony is going back to find a place. Although all the terrorists in the valley were almost killed by Kai, there were more than two hundred members of the Ten Rings Gang. In fact, as a world-class and Asia's number one Kongbu organization, the Ten Rings Gang has at least 12,000 members active in Afghanistan. The group that Kai killed was only a small branch among them, and had minimal impact on the Ten Rings Gang as a whole.

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The next day, Obadiah saw the news.

The US military spokesman on the news claimed that the US military did not launch any attack near Gemilla yesterday, and that everything was just internal strife among the air fighters and trying to frame it on the US military.

Obaday squinted his eyes and watched the news. He did not call Tony again, but sneered to himself: "Tony, Tony! What are you doing? Close the weapons department, but you created the most terrible thing." You come out with powerful weapons and use them to destroy my business. You kid always likes to deceive yourself. "

Having said this, Obadei made an internal phone call.

"How's the research going? Why not? I'll be right over."

Twenty minutes later, Obaday arrived at a laboratory at the Stark Group headquarters in Los Angeles. He met a middle-aged man in a white coat and glasses and asked, "What's going on?"

The middle-aged man with glasses was a little helpless: "Mr. Stan, we have encountered a little difficulty."

Obadie: "What difficulty?"

Energy supply system. In fact, the technology to power this mecha has not yet appeared..." the glasses-wearing middle-aged man explained hesitantly.

Obadiah hugged him and pointed with the other hand at a huge thing in front of the two of them: "Wait, it didn't show up? William, it is right in front of you. I just need you to shrink it a little bit and then put it in." It’s just in that suit of armor.”

The middle-aged man in glasses looked at the behemoth in front of him with embarrassment - it was a giant arc shock reactor with a diameter of more than five meters and a height of more than three meters.

This is also Tony's masterpiece, an experimental piece of new energy. It is also a core part of the power system that Tony is preparing to build at the group's new headquarters.

Not to mention the size issue, what really makes Glasses feel embarrassed is that this thing... is not stable at all. This is just a test product created by Tony. There are still many obstacles that need to be solved. Glasses even dare not let the reactor operate at full capacity. , because I’m afraid this thing will explode!

It may be a bit exaggerated to say that this thing exploded and destroyed half a city, but it was not difficult at all to blow up a few blocks.

This is the bomb!

And... this thing has just been invented. If you want to miniaturize it, there is still a long way to go. This requirement is similar to shrinking the first electronic computer in the 1940s to the current laptop. It is unscientific.

After all, computers have been developed for 70 years, and he has only taken over the armor manufacturing project for a month. After Tony was kidnapped, he was selected by Obaday as the person in charge of this project...

The boss who doesn't understand technology speaks like an idiot!

"Yes, sir. We tried our best, but to be honest, it can't be done." Desperate for the technical idiot Obaday, William could only give a negative answer.

Obaday's forehead veins bulged, and his body leaned forward, looking down at the glasses who were a head shorter than him with regret: "Stark made it in the cave, using a pile of rags, and it was so small."

Obaday gestured as he said that.

Glasses were helpless. How could he know how Tony did it? If he knew, wouldn't he be Tony?

"I'm really sorry, I'm not Tony Stark."

The professional ethics of scientists forced Glasses to tell the truth.

The breakthroughs in science can only be driven by a very small number of super geniuses.

But super geniuses are always a minority. There are many scientists in this world, but how many of them can be called super geniuses?

For example, Einstein, since he proposed the theory of relativity, has pushed theoretical physics to a peak, but so many years have passed, theoretical physics is still stagnant. The real top scientists are irreplaceable.

In the eyes, Tony is the modern Einstein, and he... is a nobody, maybe smart enough, but not a genius.

Obaday widened his eyes and was speechless.

After a long while: "Yes, Tony is irreplaceable!"

After that, Obaday turned and left.

Glasses shrugged, thinking that Obaday had given up. But he didn't know that Obaday meant that since others couldn't do it, he should just go to Tony directly.

"I'll let you make one last contribution for me, Tony."

...

After another conversation with Tony, Pepper had no choice but to leave Tony's house.

She had more important things to do.

For example, the shares held by the Wayne Group.

Since Tony insisted, the Wayne Group must be won over. At least it can't be allowed to turn to the other side.

As long as he can get more than 4% of the shares held by the Wayne Group, Tony can truly have absolute control!