Chapter 1145 Who's in the Way?

After this report discussing Li Changheng's net worth came out, countless people almost had a heart attack in astonishment, but it was fed back to the stock prices of several companies controlled or held by Li Changheng.

Li Changheng knows that the media reports on his wealth must be Tongyong Electric, Fuguo, and Morgan Stanley.

The partnership used some investors to blindly worship and trust their ability to make money, and to drive up the stock price of Tongyong Electric.

But even if he knew the cause and effect, he could only suppress his dissatisfaction, did nothing, and could not do anything.

Because my wealth is also rising, if I stand up and speak ironically at this time, not only my opponents will mock and attack me.

Even supporters will feel that he is against all shareholders, as well as shareholders who are looking forward to Tongyong Electric's surge.

And just to trouble the editor-in-chief and reporter of the newspaper, even if he vents his anger, he will be laughed at by others, because he can't even find out who the mastermind is.

As for the worry that someone would short Citigroup.

Before he took over the electric company, when Citigroup's market value exceeded 30 billion, some people did try to sell a few large Citigroup shares.

But the market was eating up those shares so quickly that short sellers immediately hesitated.

Worried that the market value of 30 billion is not the peak of Citigroup's rising period.

If the timing of the short sale is not chosen correctly, it will be against all investors in the entire market who are optimistic about the future of Citigroup.

After the news of Li Changheng's entry into the electric company came out, the short positions were immediately reduced by more than half.

The reason is not only that Li Changheng has a way to stabilize Citigroup's shares, but also that his influence and power at this time span across banking, finance, military industry, media and other fields.

It can be said that Li Changheng at this time is the most powerful person in the United States.

And he can also force several consortiums to cooperate with him for the benefit of Citigroup.

Unless the short sellers themselves have no taint, it is not known whether they can succeed in short selling at this time, but if they really short the strength of Citigroup, they will definitely fall into huge troubles in the future, and even last for many years.

This time, at least half of the short sellers gave up again.

The remaining short sellers who hadn't given up soon found out that the market was too optimistic about Citigroup's prospects.

Even if they wanted to short Citigroup, it would be difficult to establish a sufficient number of short contracts.

Even many brokerages, when they heard that someone wanted to short Citigroup, their first reaction was that the other party was crazy.

Moreover, even if a brokerage firm is willing to lend stocks to short sellers, the margin amount will be directly increased to 50% of the scale, and the highest leverage ratio that the brokerage firm is willing to give is only willing to give 5 times.

While this made the short sellers dumbfounded, they also knew very well that under the premise of a 50% margin, if you want to use leverage to short, the funds you need will increase exponentially.

The last straw that crushed several die-hard short sellers was that Li Changheng held 700 million US dollars in cash.

With enough cash in hand, the difficulty will increase countless times if the short sellers want to make a surprise attack.

700 million US dollars is enough to buy 2.3% of Citigroup's total shares, and then as long as Li Changheng is given half a day, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and other banks will definitely dare to lend him a huge sum of 1 billion or 2 billion.

When the market opened in the afternoon, to the great rejoicing and fear of all the short sellers who had given up, there was news in the market that many funds and investment institutions were secretly contacting Li Changheng.

No need to guess, there must be a brokerage who leaked the news, or someone among the short sellers intends to surrender, using this method to force the partners to give up.

As for why the fund contacted Li Changheng, it was nothing more than wanting to hand over the money to him, taking advantage of the capital advantage to swallow the funds in the hands of the short sellers, and by the way, eyeing the stocks in the hands of the short sellers and brokerages.

Generally speaking, to be short, you must first have stocks in your own hands, or find a brokerage to borrow stocks.

And the brokerage either has the target company's stock in its own hands, or can only borrow stock from the same industry.

Only when you can't borrow, you will take out the stocks of other customers and lend them to short sellers. This is also the main reason why futures must require margin.

Because at the beginning, all the compensation is the deposit.

The margin is gone, and the short sellers either continue to send money to the brokerage, or the brokerage directly closes the position.

After the stock is borrowed, bad news spreads in the market, causing retail investors to panic, and then a large sale order appears, which will aggravate the panic in the market.

Short sellers can buy stocks at a lower price and return them to the brokerage, earning the price difference.

Leverage is to increase the amount of funds, but the risk will also be multiplied.

Therefore, once encountering a sharp drop or skyrocketing situation, even the brokerage itself is likely to drop below the pre-set closing price before closing the position.

Even the principal was lost, and the brokerage was also implicated in losing money.

Once the brokerage is not strong enough and cannot afford to lose money, the stock is also a kind of negotiable bill, and it must be paid to the bulls.

When the short sellers got the news, even the US retirement and pension fund, which can easily spend billions of dollars, contacted Li Changheng, and immediately froze.

It's a pity that this group of people had already exposed themselves when they sold a few large amounts of shares to test the market's reaction.

Moreover, Wall Street is really not big. After looking for connections and making a few phone calls, Li Changheng can easily know who the biggest short seller of funds is.

But what he didn't expect was that the opponent was actually a bank in Panama.

Without even checking, Li Changheng knew that this bank was a trader, not a real opponent.

Let Taylor Garnell try to communicate with the Panama Bank, and the news came back quickly.

After listening to Taylor's report, Li Changheng frowned.

After thinking about it carefully, according to the files established by the DEA that I had read, I realized that this bank was a fund transfer station for several flour merchants in Mexico and South America to launder money.

In other words, is there really a flour merchant who dares to challenge himself?

No matter how he thought about it, Li Changheng felt that it shouldn't be.

Now that he had doubts, Li Changheng quickly wondered if someone wanted to direct his attention to the flour merchant.

Even looking forward to a conflict between himself and the flour merchant in order to achieve his own purpose?

Thinking about it this way, it doesn't seem impossible.

Then the question comes, who dares to calculate himself.

Who have I offended in the past one or two years?

In other words, whoever is blocking the way.

Li Changheng, who couldn't figure it out for a while, quickly used the method of elimination.

First determine whether there are really flour merchants who dare to calculate themselves.

After the previous President of the United States signed a bill requiring a report of 10,000 US dollars in and out of the bank, the United States originally thought that this would catch the flour merchants' necks.

Unexpectedly, it led to more South Americans entering the United States.

The reason is simple. Since there is no need to report for less than 10,000 US dollars, then find some South Americans who have not had a good life, and set up a large number of accounts in banks in several southern states of the United States.

Then, in the form of remittance, the money below 10,000 U.S. dollars was remitted to family members in South America in name, and they walked out of the bank secretly, and then handed it over to the flour merchants.