Chapter 376 - 337: What Exactly is Brother Ling’s Goal?
Many Western high-tech companies wanted to use their media channels to delete the articles. However, they soon discovered they simply didn't have the power to do so.
This time, Ye Ling had mobilized the media platforms of Shengding Group and Character Jumping to forward and spread the article across the entire internet.
With such a massive wave of circulation, even when the Western financial consortiums tried a series of under-the-table operations like deleting posts, they simply couldn't keep up!
No sooner was the article deleted in one place than it would reappear somewhere else.
Moreover, the official deletions only made netizens more curious about the article, prompting them to actively seek out the original text.
Many people even saved the article and put it up for sale at a clear price: five US dollars to view!
"Holy shit, these people are business wizards!" The corner of Ye Ling's mouth twitched.
He had noticed an item listed on some foreign shopping website. It was the very article he had circulated, priced at five US dollars, and its sales had already surpassed ten thousand!
In other words, in just a few short hours, this person had already raked in tens of thousands of US dollars!?
Ye Ling felt that he could pull that off too!
"Those Western financial powers must be dumbfounded now, huh?" Ye Ling and Chen Lin both laughed out loud.
The key was that the article's contents were true. Therefore, even the people controlling the platforms from behind the scenes couldn't just delete the listing arbitrarily.
Otherwise, they would definitely be sued!
Of course.
There was one way the listing could be taken down: if Ye Ling's side filed a claim, stating that the seller had infringed upon their copyright...
But, of course, that was never going to happen.
A mere tens of thousands of US dollars was nothing but peanuts compared to the profits they were raking in from Fruit Group this time!
Indeed.
At that moment, a shocking tsunami was tearing through the United States stock market.
Fruit Group's stock price, which had been on a steady rise, suddenly took a nosedive. In less than half an hour, it plummeted to 100 US dollars.
It was just shy of breaking below three digits!
"This is just unbelievable..."
"Holy shit, th-th-this is Fruit Group's stock price!?"
Across the web, countless investors expressed their utter shock.
In the past, Fruit Group's stock price had been synonymous with high returns. Take last year, for example. By the end of the third quarter, its stock price had risen by nearly sixty-seven percent compared to the start of the year.
What did that even mean!?
It meant that if you had bought Fruit Group stock at the beginning of the year and sold it in the third quarter, you would have increased your initial investment by nearly seventy percent.
That kind of rate of return was truly rare.
But while last year was indeed an incredible year for Fruit Group, it seemed to be a peak the company might never reach again...
During the New Year this year, a series of moves by Celestial Dragon Investment Company had sent Fruit Group's steadily climbing stock price plummeting as if struck by a sledgehammer.
And now, just when it finally had a chance to rebound, it was hit with another blow!?
"Damn it, who the hell is this Celestial Dragon Investment Company!?"
"Fuck! You despicable people from Xia Country! This is too much."
Fruit Group's top executives were on the verge of a complete breakdown.
After spending so long regrouping, they had finally gotten an opportunity to make Fruit Group's stock price rise, and now Celestial Dragon Investment Company was back!?
At this moment, Celestial Dragon Investment Company had undoubtedly become a demon, brandishing its trident at them!
「Inside a Fruit Group office.」
Kurda pinched the bridge of his nose, his eyes filled with exhaustion.
He had never in his life felt so powerless.
This Celestial Dragon Investment Company was just too uncanny; it was as if every single attack struck Fruit Group exactly where it hurt the most!
...
"Chen Lin, what do you think those Western financial powers will do now?" Ye Ling asked.
"In this situation, with the influence of that article, Fruit Group's stock price has basically no chance of recovery..."
Chen Lin mulled it over for a moment before replying, "There's only one possibility: they'll use their massive capital reserves to force Fruit Group's stock price back up!"
As for the capital reserves Chen Lin mentioned, to put it simply: they'd just throw money at it!
Online public opinion had already reached an uncontrollable level; even Ye Ling would find it nearly impossible to change the narrative now.
As for those Western financial powers, it was an even more impossible task.
And what happened next was just as Chen Lin predicted. Influenced by online sentiment, a flood of sell orders for Fruit Group hit the market!
The Tianxin One chip was just too powerful; it was completely dominating Mitsubishi Technology Company, wasn't it?
Under these circumstances, the many investors holding Fruit Group stock all sensed the danger!
They had to get out, and fast!
This was what most investors holding Fruit Group stock were thinking.
In the blink of an eye, the situation in the Fruit Group stock market—which had previously seen more buy orders than sell orders—completely reversed. In less than half a day, it was flooded with a massive number of sell orders.
"Buy them up! Buy them all!" The various Western financial powers gritted their teeth and ultimately chose to throw money at the problem.
The main reason was that these Western financial powers had all thought this was a sure win, and had thus invested massive amounts of capital. If they were to pull out now, their losses would be anything but small!
This was especially true for the three major players—the Dupont Consortium, Mitsubishi Technology Company, and the Moore Consortium—each of whom had invested over ten billion US dollars.
And if the market crashed at this point, they would probably lose at least the equivalent of the capital Ye Ling had used to enter the market!
Most critically, these various financial groups had many other investments in Fruit Group, both in the stock market and in its offline operations.
If Fruit Group's stock price truly collapsed—say, by dropping to fifty US dollars or so—the impact they would suffer would be even more immense.
Moreover, that impact would no longer be a simple matter of a few billion US dollars; the losses would be in the tens, or even hundreds of billions!
And with these American financial powers stepping in, the sell orders in the Fruit Group stock market were snapped up one after another, and the falling stock price was finally, barely, stabilized.
101 US dollars!
Looking at Fruit Group's stock price, Ye Ling couldn't help but be amazed.
"They're really fucking rich."
Ye Ling remarked with a sigh.
For them to be able to halt the stock's downward trend with their immense capital reserves, despite all the negative sentiment online, was truly no easy feat.
In other words, if it were Ye Ling in their shoes, he definitely could not have pulled off something on this scale!
This was the power of big money.
In the financial markets, absolute power did, in fact, exist.
Take the current situation for instance. Logically, after all of Ye Ling's careful maneuvering, Fruit Group's stock price should have been in freefall.
And yet, those Western financial consortiums had managed to brute-force a reversal of the entire situation...
This was also why Ye Ling never recommended that ordinary retail investors go head-to-head with the big players.
Just think about it.
If an ordinary investor found themselves in Ye Ling's current situation, what could they possibly do?
They'd be toast, of course!
However, if it was Brother Ling... well, that was a different story.
What was Brother Ling's real goal this time?
Was it to short Fruit Group?
The Western financial powers thought so, but that wasn't the truth at all!
His target was never Fruit Group to begin with!
"Chen Lin, what's the status?" Ye Ling asked.
"We're already out!"
Chen Lin replied immediately.
That's right!
Just as countless investors were dumping their Fruit Group shares and the Western financial consortiums were frantically buying them up, Celestial Dragon Investment Company had begun buying back shares to close out its position.