Chapter 353 - 323: Speculation from the Western Capital Forces
Chapter 353: Chapter 323: Speculation from the Western Capital Forces
Applying for his course and attendance exemptions went remarkably smoothly. By the time Ye Ling left Zhou Tong’s office, Ning Ruoxi’s class was still in session.
Ye Ling thought for a moment, then headed to the library. He planned to find a place to sit, check up on recent online events, and wait for Ning Ruoxi.
At the library, Ye Ling first sent a text to Ning Ruoxi, then opened Weibo to look up the recent movements of the major Western tech companies and financial conglomerates.
While Ye Ling had been targeting the Tianxun Group, the major Western tech companies hadn’t stopped making moves!
The Fruit Group, in particular, had repeatedly issued warnings, stating that they might face an attack from an Eastern power in the near future and advising investors to be cautious.
When Ye Ling saw this news, he would have burst out laughing if he weren’t in a library where he had to be quiet.
The Fruit Group’s move was actually quite clever. By issuing warnings, they could make investors wary and thereby disrupt Ye Ling’s plans.
To a certain extent, this move was a form of self-destruction.
What did that mean?
It meant killing a thousand enemies at the cost of eight hundred of your own.
Releasing such a message would indeed make investors more cautious. At the same time, however, those investors would also consider reducing their capital investment in the Fruit Group.
After all, this was a showdown between Celestial Gods!
Ordinary investors didn’t think they had the strength to get involved...
...
But the key issue now was... the Fruit Group wasn’t even Ye Ling’s target this time, was it?
The Fruit Group was indeed a rather plump sheep, but everyone knew that while fleecing a single sheep was easy, the sheep would eventually go bald.
And Ye Ling had already fleeced the Fruit Group nearly bald!
Some might say that Ye Ling had only profited by a few billion, so how much of an impact could he have on the Fruit Group?
But there was something to note here!
This was the stock market; it wasn’t just Ye Ling and the Fruit Group!
When Ye Ling made his move and the Fruit Group’s stock saw a major fluctuation, various investment firms and financial conglomerates swarmed in like great white sharks that had smelled blood...
In other words, the financial giants of the US stock market were definitely not blameless for the Fruit Group’s currently sluggish stock price!
As for those financial giants, they couldn’t care less that the Fruit Group was from the same country as them...
In the stock market, profit reigns supreme!
All that talk about partners and protecting your own was just bullshit.
And under the assault of so many great white sharks, how much of its skin could the Fruit Group possibly have left intact?
Probably not much!
Ye Ling briefly checked the Fruit Group’s recent activity. Besides issuing warnings, they were also gradually buying back company stock to increase their resistance to suppression.
Ye Ling merely glanced at the Fruit Group’s maneuvers without paying them much mind, then started looking up information on the Mitsubishi Technology Company.
In stark contrast to the Fruit Group’s series of major moves, the Mitsubishi Technology Company appeared exceptionally calm!
With the recent incident involving the Tianxin Technology Company, Mitsubishi Technology should have been the most directly affected enterprise...
However, the Mitsubishi Technology Company showed no reaction whatsoever!
Ye Ling wasn’t surprised by this.
He wasn’t a layman. He had learned a lot about the current state of these corporations recently.
That was just how the Mitsubishi Technology Company operated. They had their pride and would never resort to the Fruit Group’s tactic of preemptive self-defense by issuing warnings.
From another perspective, this also symbolized the gap between the Fruit Group and the Mitsubishi Technology Company.
The Mitsubishi Technology Company’s monopoly in the chip industry was far beyond what the Fruit Group could compare to in the smartphone market.
To a certain extent, the Fruit Group’s monopoly in the smartphone market had been broken long ago!
There were simply too many smartphone brands these days...
But the chip industry was different!
If you were to count the world-class chip manufacturers, you could count them on one hand.
And among those few giants, the Mitsubishi Technology Company was a giant’s giant!
Under these circumstances, what did the Mitsubishi Technology Company have to worry about?
"This is for the best," Ye Ling murmured, a slight smile touching his lips.
He loved this kind of confidence from the Mitsubishi Technology Company!
Wasn’t it a good thing when your opponent didn’t put up a deliberate defense?
It would allow Ye Ling to profit more easily.
If the Mitsubishi Technology Company had gone against the grain and copied the Fruit Group’s self-destruct tactic, even Ye Ling’s previous plans would have likely been disrupted!
BUZZ BUZZ!
Just as Ye Ling was looking into the movements of Western capital forces, his phone vibrated. It was a message from Chen Lin.
’Chen Lin: Chairman Ye, the twenty billion in funds is ready. We can enter the market at any time!’
’Chen Lin: One more thing. According to our recent surveillance, there’s something fishy about the capital movements of a certain Western ’asset’.’
"Asset" was the code word Ye Ling and Chen Lin had previously agreed on for "financial conglomerate."
The main reason was that current chat applications had abysmally low security. Therefore, when Ye Ling and Chen Lin communicated, they deliberately avoided key information to prevent any potential leaks!
’I’ll head to the company after I take Ruoruo home. Wait for me.’ Ye Ling glanced at the time. Ning Ruoxi’s class should be ending just about now.