Chapter 680 - 287: A Familiar Scheme (Part 3)
It’s not that Li Yang didn’t want to prioritize his own people, he just didn’t know what to do.
It would be a good opportunity to wait a couple more years for a certain drop to be investigated.
Preparing for it starting next year would be on time, after all, real autonomous driving can’t be rolled out in these years, there isn’t enough data.
There won’t be much change in this year’s model compared to next year.
Once the product is on track, he plans to reduce the frequency of upgrades and replacements, as many technologies need time to mature.
Since early April, countless people have been anticipating this year’s mystery box opening.
Li Yang wasn’t very excited; he knew the bigger the mystery box this time, the harder it would be to wrap up later.
But he couldn’t find a way to lose the money...
Now, the hundreds of billions of US Dollars in capital are quite a large sum, and he had a hunch that Wall Street had already set its sights on this money.
It’s just that for various reasons, they hadn’t taken action.
Li Yang decided to release some information early to ensure the safety of his funds.
...
From April onward, Wanliu Capital’s stock price began to rise.
By mid-April, compared to the beginning of the month, it had risen by twenty points.
The market value rose from $1.3 trillion to nearly $1.6 trillion.
And this year’s dividend plan was already out, with 5 yuan for every ten shares.
This is equivalent to 0.5 yuan per share, a three-point dividend yield.
The total dividend was $50 billion.
Though this dividend isn’t high in the Chinese stock market, as the average dividend for the four major banks is around six points, and many small-cap stocks have dividend yields reaching ten points.
Ning Hao called Zhang Mengyu over, using the excuse that Zhang Mansheng had him hold some stocks for him, and he planned to transfer them to her.
But this time was different from the last; the last time it was just a cooperation agreement, and Zhang Mengyu didn’t take any money.
This time Ning Hao clearly intended to give her over a million yuan.
She definitely wanted to call her father to ask.
Then, Ning Hao’s excuse was exposed.
In fact, Ning Hao didn’t expect it to be so fast.
Well, he was nearing bankruptcy.
He initially thought about disbanding the studio after the new year, but unexpectedly, Li Yang invited him to play games and told him to work hard.
He then persisted for two and a half months and even expanded the studio scale, but three accompanying game platforms went bust, costing him nearly a hundred thousand yuan, and he was on the brink of bankruptcy.
So, he immediately thought of returning Zhang Mansheng’s funds as soon as possible, lest he might use it in desperation.
He accepted his fate.
He was truly not cut out for entrepreneurship, unable to keep up with the current internet pace.
He had thought Zhang Mengyu was easy to fool, but it didn’t work.
Zhang Mansheng said he was busy over there and would come to Jiangbei next month to have a good talk with him.
And on this very day, a post appeared online.
"Breaking News: Wanliu Capital’s hundreds of billions of overseas funds frozen!"
"According to an insider, there’s an issue with the account of Wanliu Global Selection. As we all know, Wanliu Global Mixed Selection is a QDII fund, mainly investing in overseas securities markets and having a scale as much as $30 billion, the only fund in the country exceeding $10 billion. The QDII quota of several dozen financial institutions in the country combined is around $100 billion, and Wanliu Capital alone has a fund of this scale...
Everyone who attended last year’s April 30th mystery box opening knows the fund has a glorious history. The second half of the year before and the first half of last year, the global financial market was in a downturn, yet the fund generated unprecedented returns, with its net value increasing by 150%.
However, the scale was relatively small last year, with only $5 billion, but this year the scale is unprecedented, reaching $30 billion, making it difficult to create overly exaggerated returns.
But even so, Wanliu Capital still made quite a bit of money, reaching a level that makes Wall Street jealous.
As well known, the US stock market is Wall Street’s backyard. You can bring money in, but if you want to run away with profits? No way!
From the start, Wanliu Global Selection was watched by Wall Street, but they didn’t act until the fund was about to close, and they froze the account funds directly. Currently, the account for Wanliu Global Selection cannot be operated, and all investments would be wasted..."
In the first moment Ning Hao saw this information, he felt that Li Yang was sending them a signal.
It meant that Li Yang was preparing to retreat.
But on second thought, that wasn’t right.
If it was a retreat signal, such content shouldn’t be released.
Soon, this topic hit the trending list...
Jiang Baichuan called Li Yang...
Because Jiang Baichuan hadn’t heard of such a thing.
Although Wall Street is truly shameless, they wouldn’t just blatantly rob for $300-400 billion, especially as that account was under a state account.
So, Jiang Baichuan had someone investigate it.
Then... he felt uncertain.
$700 billion!
Damn...
Did Wall Street feel tempted?
Certainly, there’s no doubt about that.
Taking over $40 billion from the US Stocks in a year, nobody could accept that.
However, currently, the account for Wanliu Global Selection can still be traded and is not subject to any restrictions.
Jiang Baichuan was dumbfounded... Could it have been restricted before and was unlocked after seeing the trending search?
After all, this wasn’t a small matter; trying to seize this money would mean bearing the price of dirty money.
At the same time...
Wall Street was also confused.
They paid close attention to news from China, as any news had room for their manipulations, investing tens of billions of dollars annually in guiding public opinion.
This matter being discussed fervently in China severely impacted Wall Street’s reputation.
Although they did think of finding an excuse to seize Wanliu Capital’s funds.
Considering that Li Yang actively embraced NVIDIA, which earned them quite a bit, upon weighing the costs, they decided to allow Wanliu Capital to take the money, as long as it still played in this market, there would always be opportunities in the future...
But before they acted, someone was already accusing them of it?
This approach was strangely familiar?