Friday, August 13!
At 9:00 a.m., Li Yi arrived at the New York Stock Exchange with Jiang Xue and the others.
Shortly after they arrived, Green Reggie showed up with the company’s investment team, and the two groups proceeded to a massive VIP lounge.
Once inside the VIP lounge, Green Reggie exchanged a few brief pleasantries with Li Yi before getting down to business.
He knew that a tough battle lay ahead.
After his meeting with Li Yi yesterday, he had ordered an investigation into whether there had been any fluctuations in the company’s stock price, but the results were not very encouraging.
According to the report from the company’s investment manager, twenty minutes before the market closed yesterday afternoon, a large sum of money suddenly entered the market, buying up the company’s stock at a high price.
In a very short time, the company’s stock price had risen from $14 per share to $18, a surge of 28%.
Trading was halted only because the market closed; otherwise, the stock price would undoubtedly have risen further.
All signs point to someone having already begun a large-scale acquisition of the company’s shares.
Moreover, Reggie Green knew that this force must be from JPMorgan Chase, because only they knew how much Green Brothers had made in this round.
Having missed their chance to cash in, they were now looking to snap up Green Brothers’ stock before others caught on, hoping to at least get a small share of the profits.
Of course, major investment firms are no strangers to business intelligence. After a night of speculation, other investment institutions have surely picked up on the news as well.
Barring any surprises, there would undoubtedly be no shortage of institutions scrambling to buy their company’s stock today.
Fortunately, the foreign exchange department had already completed the synchronization with the pound sterling exchange rate yesterday afternoon, and Green Reggie immediately ordered his staff to submit an application requesting that all pounds in the account be converted into U.S. dollars.
Just moments ago, on his way here, Green Reggie made a special trip to the bank and had already exchanged billions of dollars.
With such a massive amount of capital at his disposal, Green Reggie wasn’t afraid of any challenge.
“Ring-ring-ring…”
As the opening bell rang, the New York Stock Exchange quickly sprang into action.
The already noisy trading floor instantly turned into a bustling marketplace, with stockbrokers of all ranks and retail investors alike rushing to place orders for the stocks they had their eyes on.
At the time, stock trading on the NYSE still relied on traditional manual methods, with most tasks requiring human intervention.
With so many people crammed into the trading floor, the chaos was overwhelming, so communication could only be done by shouting.
Once trading began, the entire NYSE resembled a giant nightclub—save for the lack of music, the passion, frenzy, noise, and commotion were indistinguishable from those of a nightclub.
Just before the market closed yesterday afternoon, Green Brothers’ stock suddenly skyrocketed as if it had been injected with adrenaline, which had already caught the attention of many.
As soon as the market opened today, everyone’s attention was focused on this stock.
And Green Brothers’ stock did not disappoint; the price began climbing immediately after the opening bell, surging by 20% in less than ten minutes with incredible momentum.
Soon, investors realized that in less than twenty minutes, at least three major brokerage firms had poured substantial capital into the market, vying for shares of Green Brothers.
During this period, the turnover rate and trading volume of Green Brothers’ stock skyrocketed, making it the market’s most dazzling dark horse of the day.
Neither Li Yi nor Reggie Green was surprised by this outcome; they had anticipated it long ago.
Although their actions were discreet, they could not be hidden from everyone.
Previously, those who didn’t know what they were up to dared not follow suit and place bets.
However, after the British Empire adjusted its exchange rate, a quick review of the market made it clear what Green Brothers had been aiming for all along. Firms like JPMorgan were even able to calculate exactly how much Li Yi and his associates had profited.
Under these circumstances, how could they possibly miss the chance to cash in?
Now, the only thing they could do was keep raising their bid price and compete with those brokerage firms for the company’s publicly traded shares.
And with Green Brothers entering the fray at full speed, the already intense battle instantly reached a fever pitch.
While Green Reggie led his team in a full-scale bid for the company’s shares, Li Yi was guiding Jiang Xue on how to take advantage of the chaos.
They poured all 880,000 USD of their recovered investment into the fray, joining the major institutions and corporations in the race for Green Brothers’ shares.
Since they only had $880,000 in capital, Li Yi adopted an aggressive strategy.
While most companies were offering between $18 and $20 per share, he immediately drove the price up to $22, adopting a strategy of charging ahead recklessly and without hesitation.
After all, with so many institutional investors backing them up, paying a few dollars more per share was no big deal; these major institutions would soon bid even higher.
And so, led by Li Yi, Green Brothers’ stock price skyrocketed without pause.
Before noon, the stock price had already broken through the $30 mark and was charging toward new heights…
The general public found the sudden surge in Green Brothers’ stock price baffling; there had seemed to be absolutely no warning signs beforehand.
Meanwhile, the companies and institutions in the know all tacitly turned a blind eye. In an instant, speculation about Green Brothers Company ran rampant in the market!
Just as everyone was wondering why the company’s stock was behaving so erratically, a bombshell was dropped: Green Cleanup had struck it rich, raking in nearly $10 billion overnight.
According to the leaked information, Green Brothers had recently pooled a massive sum of over 10 billion US dollars, intending to invest in London.
However, as soon as the funds were converted into pounds, a currency adjustment occurred. Without even making any investments, the Green Brothers Company raked in over 10 billion dollars.
As soon as the news was released, it caused a sensation throughout the entire capital market.
As a result, Green Brothers’ stock price once again went into a frenzied surge.
30… 32… 35…
In just a few short hours, the company’s stock price surged from $18 at the opening bell to $35, nearly doubling in value.
Compared to yesterday afternoon’s price of $14, it had nearly tripled.
As a result, the company’s market capitalization surged from $11.5 billion to $28.7 billion in less than a day.
Honestly, even Li Yi was stunned by the stock’s疯狂 surge. Based on the current share price, his net worth had skyrocketed by 7 to 8 billion dollars in just a single day.
At this rate of making money, it’s far faster than robbing a bank.
As for the inexperienced Jiang Xue, she was even more terrified by this situation.
They had invested only $880,000 today, purchasing a total of 367 lots—36,670 shares of Green Brothers—at an average price of $24 per share.
However, by the market close, the share price had reached $38, yielding a profit of $14 per share.
In other words, in less than a day, they had made $510,000—it was absolutely insane.
But what they never could have imagined was that this was just the beginning. Once the Beautiful Lighthouse stock market went wild, it became utterly irrational and completely ruthless…
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