You are worth tens of billions before you come to the system?

Three minutes after the opening, the stock price instantly rose by 41% to $148.47. A super positive line shot straight into the sky, and more than $80 billion of funds poured in.

This kind of market situation directly blinds people.

Have they ever seen anything like this?

Although there is no limit on the rise or fall of U.S. stocks, huge rises and falls generally occur in pre-market and post-market trading, because retail investors are not eligible to participate at that time.

The funds available are relatively small.

Spend a little money and do big things.

Although there have been huge intraday gains and losses.

However, it is usually a special situation where major bad news or good news is temporarily announced during the day.

Even some veteran investors who have been ups and downs in the U.S. stock market for decades have never seen this kind of situation before, and they started frantically buying stocks without any warning.

Before they could react, the price of a single stock was $148.47 for less than ten seconds. The buy orders that originally flooded the market disappeared instantly and were replaced by sell orders.

Stock prices began to plummet.

Panic began to spread throughout the market.

Many retail investors couldn't hold on to their chips and began to sell, just like a chain reaction of dominoes.

The super positive line just now disappeared, but was replaced by a super negative line that gradually dipped into the abyss.

Before that, if someone asked retail investors how long it would take to get from heaven to hell, they might think about it for a long time.

But what they are experiencing makes them answer without hesitation that it only takes twenty seconds to go from heaven to hell.

Meanwhile, across the ocean, in Merck’s trading room.

"Quick, quick, quick, let's rush to raise funds. We must not let Lin Zitai succeed and complete the goal of holding the shareholding."

Fraser was instantly panicked. Lin Zitai didn't know the number of their shares, and they didn't know the number of Lin Zitai's shares.

That this situation is happening now only shows that their situation is very dangerous, and Lin Zitai may be about to complete the controlling stake.

As Merck spent tens of billions of dollars to enter the market to raise funds, the stock price climbed from hell to heaven, and even reached a higher level.

"Damn it, this is so exciting, my heart can't bear it anymore."

"Are you almost unable to hold it anymore? I'm already out of water..."

"Fuck, who taught them to play like this? I've already lost my position."

At the same time, major financial forums at home and abroad are discussing the unprecedented battle between Novartis and Merck.

The slow people didn't react for a while. They didn't know what they had just experienced.

It took three minutes to go to heaven, twenty seconds to go to hell, and only ten seconds to go to heaven again.

In less than four minutes,

Life has experienced ups and downs, ups and downs, and ups again.

One rise, one fall, and another rise. The three waves directly created an increase and decrease of nearly 80 points that day.

Some speculators who used high leverage were on the verge of tears when they saw their positions and margins. A feeling of despair filled their hearts, and they wished they could jump off the rooftop right now.

With such an exaggerated rise and fall, if you use more than twice the leverage, your position will be liquidated 100% of the time.

So this happened. The stock price obviously rose, and the increase was terrifyingly high. However, all their principal, and even the margin for securities lending, were wiped out.

"I hate……"

……

"$154.79? A 47% increase?"

Lin Zitai was shocked, looking at MSD's market chart, he almost laughed out loud.

The original intention of creating panic was to lure retail investors, wash them out, and then take away the chips they held, but I didn't expect that there would be an unexpected surprise.

Lin Zitai never imagined that Fraser would be so impatient. Seeing them washing the market, spending tens of billions of dollars, directly raising the stock price to an unprecedented height.

The 47% increase made Merck's market value instantly exceed the US$5000 billion mark, reaching US$5262.6 billion.

Even if we look at the financial markets of various countries around the world, there are only four companies with a market value of more than 5000 billion US dollars, namely Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Google.

If China Tobacco China is willing to go public, it can become the fifth company with annual revenue of more than one trillion yuan.

Only the fifth company with a market value of US$5000 billion has been taken over by Merck today.

But now there is a new problem, Merck is not worthy.

"How much did we spend?" Lin Zitai asked.

Lu Feng replied: "We just spent US$85 billion on buying, and US$75 billion on selling to create panic. Although our opponents intervened in time, we still grabbed US$ billion in chips, and the average purchase price is still being calculated... "

Lin Zitai shook his head and waved his hand to interrupt, not wanting to listen: "There is no point in raising the cost now. As long as we can buy Merck, it will be worth spending no matter how much money we spend."

"Manager Lu, just tell me how much money we still have and how many shares we hold?" Lin Zitai spent so much financial and material resources just to let Novartis acquire Merck. If we really want to count, this amount Trading is actually doomed to losses.

But the implications are profound.

The merger of two multinational pharmaceutical giants will create the undisputed number one pharmaceutical group in the world. Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, or Roche will all have to step aside.

Although it is possible that because of Lin Zitai's Chinese identity, after the merger of the two companies, the leaders of various departments under his name, and even the grassroots employees did not listen to the announcement.

But Lin Zitai is the controller of this group, and no one can question this. No matter how unconvinced they are, they can only admit this fact.

That's enough.

Lu Feng said: "We still hold US$655.1 billion, an increase of 2.25%, and the current shareholding is 28.43%."

"It is still 4.97% short of reaching 33.4%. At the current market value, it should cost US$265.5 billion."

Lin Zitai shook his head and said: "33.4% is not the final goal. We can achieve it, and so can Merck."

He suddenly wanted to know how many shares Merck had repurchased this time, and how many shares it won when subscribing.

Unfortunately, Frazier's confidentiality measures were very good this time. Born could not inquire about it at all, and Chase Bank refused to tell it out of professionalism.

"Stop for a while and let them play on their own and see if they can drain all their funds."

Lin Zitai decided to change his strategy and induce retail investors to sell their chips, which was only an indicator but not a root cause.

If you want to cure the root cause, you still need to target the source, which is the board of directors of Merck, or more accurately, Fraser.

After leaving the trading room, Lin Zitai returned to the office and called Parks to inquire about the progress.

"Shareholders were demonstrating downstairs, but Fraser refused to respond, and no one even came forward."

Sadness arose in Parks's heart, and he felt inexplicably like a rabbit dying of a fox.

Under his arrangement, more and more people demonstrated at MSD East.

According to the latest report ten minutes ago, the number of people involved has reached a hundred.

Half of them were arranged by them, and the other half were added later.

More than fifty people voluntarily joined the parade, indicating that Lam Chi-tai's strategy was successful.

At this time, Fraser chose to avoid it, which was escaping from the public point of view.

Choosing to escape is to enter a dead end, because it will further arouse the dissatisfaction in the hearts of small and medium-sized shareholders.

I said it well at the beginning, holding one share is also a family member, but now I don’t even want to respond. Do you treat your family members like this?

Parks admired Lin Zitai more and more, and also admired how prescient he was back then.

It's a rebound, it's a rebound, there's no trace of sloppiness.

Otherwise, he would probably be like Fraser today and fall into an unsolvable dead end.

Regardless of whether Lin Zitai can acquire Merck, Fraser will never be the CEO of Merck in the future.

Now there is a common enemy. When the enemy disappears, Fraser will definitely be pushed out by the board of directors to anger the people.

Because Fraser mortgaged and sold his shares and family funds, he also lost his most important talisman.

Lin Zitai asked again: "Has anyone accepted the olive branch we offered?"

Parks nodded and said with a smile: "Originally, there wasn't one, but there was one just now."

Just now, someone took the initiative to contact him, hoping to serve as the guide for Lin Zitai to move into MSD.

Fraser made a very wrong choice. Lin Zitai was washing the dishes. He didn't notice and ran in to join in the fun.

It has directly raised the market value of Merck to a height that does not belong to it, and now it is a bit difficult to get down.

In particular, Lin Zitai seemed to see this and decisively stopped collecting funds, leaving Fraser's funds at the high penalty point.

The funds used by Fraser are Merck's funds and funds that belong to all shareholders.

If huge losses are caused, he will be blamed.

"On behalf of us, Novartis Investments, the largest individual shareholder of Merck, you are going to the company to visit Fraser."

The corners of Lin Zitai's mouth raised, revealing a smile.

He no longer wants to play online, and plans to let Parks represent all shareholders and go to the real Fraser offline.

If the problem is difficult to solve, then solve the people who created the problem.

Once Fraser is removed from office,

MSD is Lin Zitai’s bag.

(End of this chapter)