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Bai Ye leaned close to Aunt Mei's neck, sniffed it deeply, and said:

"I'll buy it and try it out someday."

Aunt Mei felt a little itchy and said, "It's nothing special, just Procter & Gamble shampoo bought from the supermarket."

"No way? Impossible! Aunt Mei, you must be lying to me. Procter & Gamble's shampoo doesn't smell like this." Bai Ye came closer again: "Let me smell it again!"

“It’s really just ordinary Procter & Gamble shampoo!”

Aunt Mei was still arguing, completely unaware that Bai Ye had already stuck to her from behind, fitting her S curve so closely that it could be called an "S" curve buckle.

Suddenly.

Bai Ye's cell phone rang.

Gan!

Bai Ye couldn't help but curse in his heart. He had just enjoyed a moment and someone disturbed him. Who was it?

Are you looking for death?

Bai Ye took out his cell phone with a gloomy face, and saw that it was a call from Jordan of Galaxy Capital. He frowned. Galaxy Capital was still planning to short Stark Group, and suddenly called him. Did something unexpected happen?

This kind of thing really cannot be delayed.

He had no choice but to apologize to Aunt May, then walked out of the house and called Jordan.

It was only when Bai Ye’s cell phone rang that Aunt Mei suddenly realized that the posture between Bai Ye and her just now... was not right!

"Could it be... that this child really has some inappropriate thoughts about me?"

Aunt Mei's face suddenly turned red.

The call is connected.

Bai Ye asked coldly:

"what's up?"

"Master, someone from Morgan Stanley is here and wants to talk to you. This is a matter of life and death for Galaxy Capital. I can't make the decision, so I can only call you."

"Morgan Stanley?" Bai Ye was stunned. "It's a matter of life and death for Galaxy Capital? What do they want to do? Threaten me?"

"I don't know about that." Jordan said, "But you have to come here as soon as possible, because they look so confident. Those who come here are not kind, and those who are kind will not come."

"Haha, I get it." Bai Ye sneered, "Then you hold them steady first, I'll be right over."

Bai Ye hung up the phone and apologized to Aunt Mei and Parker and the others in the room, saying that something had to happen at the company and he had to leave temporarily.

Aunt May and Parker also expressed their understanding.

then.

Bai Ye got into his Maybach 62S, left Parker's house and headed for Galaxy Capital.

On the road.

Bai Ye's phone rang again.

Snapchat, Amanda's message.

Open it up...

"Fuck!"

Bai Ye widened his eyes and cursed.

Let me put it this way... Amanda sent Bai Ye a set of artistic photos that were much more revealing than when she was not wearing any clothes. Amanda, this little bitch, has really figured out how to use Snapchat.

Chapter 100 Real Business War

Galaxy Capital.

Bai Ye's car soon arrived downstairs and Jordan came down to pick him up.

"What happened?"

Bai Ye asked.

"I guessed that you haven't read much financial news recently, right?" Jordan said, "During this period, Morgan Stanley's hedge fund went bankrupt, with a loss of nearly $20 billion..."

Bai Ye raised his eyebrows and said, "Morgan Stanley is increasing its leverage to invest in Stark Group? They are really brave."

"Not really." Jordan said, "Before the incident, who could have imagined that Tony Stark would be attacked by terrorists? And with Tony Stark's research and development capabilities, the Jellico missile that he spent a lot of effort to manufacture would definitely sell well, which would naturally drive up the stock price of Stark Group. I guess Morgan Stanley also wanted to make a quick buck. Who could have thought... that they would be ripped off all of a sudden!"

"We shorted Stark Group this time, and because we were well prepared in advance, we made a lot of money, with a floating profit of $58.51 billion. It is estimated that at least $50 billion of the more than $10 billion was directly snatched from Morgan Stanley."

To put it bluntly, the capital market is a zero-sum game. If someone makes money, someone else must lose money. The nature of the world has always been like this. If you lose, don't complain. It's such a good place. There is no need for whispering, background resources, or moral debates. The only thing is, you can get the wool from the harvester, and whoever has the ability will win.

"As a hedge fund company, it is a basic rule to accept defeat. Morgan Stanley is also a veteran on Wall Street. What do they want to do now? Do they want to take our money back?"

Bai Ye smiled.

Jordan shrugged and said, "I don't know, but I think it's probably because he wants to make some money from us and make up for some of the losses."

"Haha, what good things are they thinking?" Bai Ye sneered: "After eating the meat in other people's stomachs, they still want them to vomit it out? Let's go and meet them!"

In the reception room of Galaxy Capital.

Keith Boone and Scotty Russ, two vice presidents of Morgan Stanley, met with Bai Ye.

Both men were wearing high-end suits and black silk ties. They looked to be around 40 years old, with neatly combed hair and high-end watches on their hands that looked very expensive.

The briefcase is very exquisite, made of high-grade leather, with a gold chain and a gold logo on it, worthy of someone from a big investment bank.

"Master Osborne, nice to meet you, nice to meet you."

The two vice presidents were very enthusiastic towards Bai Ye and were about to step forward to shake his hand. There was no sign at all that Bai Ye had just stolen $10 billion from Morgan Stanley.

Bai Ye had no intention of shaking hands. He found a chair and sat down, put his legs on the conference table, and said nonchalantly:

"Well, tell me what you want from me. I'm very busy, making billions of dollars every minute. I don't have the time to chat with you."

The founder of JP Morgan is John Morgan, a big banker in the United States. He participated in the merger of General Electric (GE), integrated the company of steel magnate Carnegie, and participated in the construction of many railways in the United States. He was a man who was very good at making money. He founded a series of companies named after himself, namely Morgan: JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan...

John Morgan first founded the famous investment bank JP Morgan (named after himself). When the Great Depression broke out in the 30s, the US government believed that super banks were the cause of the Great Depression, so it introduced a bill prohibiting commercial banks from engaging in investment banking business at the same time.

In this context, Morgan Bank was split into three parts: JP Morgan became a pure commercial bank, Morgan Stanley became an investment bank, and another Morgan was responsible for overseas business, which was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1990. JP Morgan at that time was the predecessor of JP Morgan Chase, and it was merged into JP Morgan Chase in 2000 and no longer existed independently.

So it can be roughly seen that JP Morgan split up to form JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley.

Today, Morgan Stanley is one of the top five investment banks on Wall Street, along with Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns.

It can be considered an extremely sharp weapon for America to reap the world through finance.

"Master Osborne, you are really a quick-witted person."

Bai Ye's unexpected move confused Keith Boone and Scotty Ruth. After a moment, Keith Boone smiled awkwardly and took the initiative to say:

"In that case, let's not beat around the bush. During this period, the biggest short seller of Stark Group should be Master Osborn and your Galaxy Capital, right?"

"So what if it is? So what if it is not?" Bai Ye tilted his head and looked at the two of them, saying, "You Morgan Stanley, you want to teach me how to do things, right?"

"I don't dare. Of course I don't dare." Scotty Russ said, "But Master Bai Ye may not know that during this period, our hedge fund under Morgan Stanley went bankrupt and lost nearly 20 billion US dollars. So out of curiosity, I checked the opponent. With a little coincidence, I happened to know that Galaxy Capital under your control, Master Osborne, was the party betting with us in the capital market this time."

"Unintentional" must be false, it must be intentional. After all, for the entire Morgan Stanley, a loss of 20 billion US dollars is not unbearable. But for Keith Boone and Scotty Ruth, the responsibility is very heavy. Of course, they have to think hard to recover the losses, otherwise, they will end up miserably.

If they find an opponent who is of the same level and they cannot afford to offend him, then that's fine. They can only swallow the loss in silence, remember the hatred, and hope to trick the opponent next time and get their money back. But if the opponent is just a minion... haha, then I'm sorry, I have to ask you to 'get shot eight times in the back and commit suicide', and Morgan Stanley's losses will be directly recovered.

This is how Wall Street works.

Then Morgan Stanley took great pains to track down Bai Ye and Galaxy Capital.

Keith Boone and Scotty Ruth were very frustrated when they found out that it was Master Osborne's doing. After all, the Osborne family was old money and not an easy target to be harvested. Morgan Stanley was very strong, but when it clashed with the Osborne Group, only God knew who would win and who would lose.

But there is always a way out. Keith Boone and Scotty Ruth suddenly discovered a little secret, and interesting things happened. They thought that maybe with the help of this little secret, they could get some help from Master Osborne and make up for their losses.

"So?" Bai Ye lit a cigarette for himself, took a puff, exhaled a cloud of smoke, and said, "Do you want me to return the money to you?"

"Of course we can't be that naive!" Keith Boone said with a smile, "We have no relationship with you, Master Osborne, so how can we negotiate such terms with you? We came here just to make friends with you, Master Osborne."

"Make friends?" Bai Ye smiled faintly and said, "Haha, why? If it's the president of your Morgan Stanley, then it's almost the same."

You two vice presidents, just minions, are worthy of being my friends?

"We have helped Master Osborne solve a not-so-small problem." Scotty Russ said confidently.

"I don't remember what I asked you to do for me." Bai Ye narrowed his eyes and said, "Or did you two come to my place today to get free food and drinks?"

"Master Osborn, you misunderstood." Keith Boone smiled and said, "We two really helped you solve a problem. For example... Galaxy Capital suddenly decided to short the Stark Group on the eve of Tony Stark's departure for Afghanistan. The time was too short. If the SEC knew about this, there is a 90% chance that they would rule that Galaxy Capital was involved in insider trading and was involved in a huge amount of tens of billions of dollars. Master Osborn, you might even be held criminally responsible. What we did was to help you clear up all the clues so that the SEC would not target you. Is this considered a small favor to you?"

"Is this a trivial matter, is it worth asking for a favor from me? Do you have any concrete evidence? If not, what can the SEC do to me? At most, I will apologize and pay a fine." Bai Ye sneered and said, "Besides, this kind of thing is a basic practice on Wall Street, right? If this can be considered a crime, then when have you, Morgan Stanley, not committed a crime? You don't have to destroy the evidence for me. You can go to Times Square with a loud speaker and shout that I am suspected of insider trading. I have no objection."

Bai Ye had long known that he could not hide the shorting of Stark Group, because Galaxy Capital was now very large, and its shorting of Stark Group was also large, making it the leading short seller. It was like an elephant trying to hide itself, and it could not hide at all.

Even if Jordan did a lot of disguised operations before shorting, hiding himself so that others could not find real evidence, there were still some clues.

At this time, it depends on who has greater power and who has a stronger background.

If Morgan Stanley thought that they could scare him and treat him as a soft persimmon to make him hand over the more than 50 billion US dollars they had swallowed, then they were really blind and wasting their efforts.

Keith Boone and Scotty Ruth looked at each other and both felt a little bit tricky. It seemed that the young master of the Osborne family was a reckless person and was not easy to handle.

A little troublesome.

But it's just a little troublesome.

If there were only these things, Keith Boone and Scotty Ruth certainly wouldn't dare to come to Bai Ye so carelessly, because if they dared to report Osborne's old money financial manipulation violations because of some clues today, then Morgan Stanley would probably have to accept Osborne's report next, and there would definitely be reciprocal retaliation between the two parties, and both would suffer heavy losses. It would not be worth it, so why bother?

Whoever created the figurines has no descendants?

So the two of them actually came with real killer weapons.

Scotty Russ had a fake smile on his face:

"Without solid evidence, the SEC seems unable to do anything to you, Master Osborne, but...what if it is the Roxxon Group?"

Jordan, who was listening on the side, looked slightly changed.

If he had not been in charge of Galaxy Capital for such a long time, and had handled tens of billions of dollars, and had already developed a certain composure, he would probably have collapsed to the ground out of fear.

"What do you mean?"

A smile appeared on Bai Ye's lips.

"It's well-known that the explosion at the Roxxon Texas chemical plant caused the market value to plummet. Roxxon happened to know that before the explosion, there was a mysterious short position in the stock market, shorting Roxxon. So, they suspected that someone deliberately staged the explosion and made a lot of dollars by shorting." Scotty Russ smiled. "So Roxxon commissioned us, the big investment banks on Wall Street, to find the source of that short position."

"If the Roxxon Texas chemical plant explosion is an unsolved case and we on Wall Street can't find anything, then when the Roxxon San Francisco base exploded, there was an additional amount of money shorting Roxxon, which allowed us to accidentally discover some clues. Not much, but we had some indicative suspicions."

"Hahahaha!" Keith Boone suddenly laughed. "These are completely false and obviously slanderous things against you, Master Osborne. We are sure that no one would believe them, so the two of us suppressed them for you, Master Osborne. Of course, it's not a big favor. After all, there is no actual evidence. What can the SEC do to you, Master Osborne? It's just... if Roxxon finds out, then things will be a bit difficult to handle."

Scotty Russ also had an ambiguous smile on his face. "We all know that the Roxxon Group has always been quite domineering and arrogant. No matter whether it is Morgan, DuPont, or Stark Group, there is no one they dare not provoke. Once they suspect someone of the two explosions in their own factories..."

"Tsk tsk!" Keith Boone sang in unison like a crosstalk: "These two explosions have caused Roxxon to suffer heavy losses. The super energy giant, which was originally worth 3500 billion US dollars, has now fallen to a 'small company' with a market value of about 1500 billion US dollars. I guess Roxxon's resentment is not ordinary. As long as there is suspicion, even if there is no evidence, I guess they will fight to the death with each other, right? With Roxxon's military strength, there are not many forces in the world who dare to say that they are not afraid of a bloody battle with Roxxon?"

The smile on Scotty Russ's face gradually turned evil: "Master Bai Ye, you don't want to become the object of Roxxon's suspicion, right? So, if we help you, Master Bai Ye, to clean up the mess and solve this problem, do we have the qualifications to be friends?"

Keith Boone: "It's just a rumor. We just took the initiative to help you, Master Osborne. However, we are thick-skinned and want to ask for a small favor from you, Master Bai Ye. I wonder if we are qualified?"

Bai Ye took two puffs of his cigarette, squinted his eyes, and looked at Scotty Ruth and Keith Boone for a long time through the blue smoke.

It was not until the smiles on Scotty Ruth and Keith Boone's faces had become a little stiff that Bai Ye finally spoke:

"What favor do you two want from me?"

Keith Boone was overjoyed and said, "Master Osborne, you know that the two of us recently messed up this job for the Stark Group, causing the company to lose $20 billion, so we have to make some achievements to make up for it. If Master Bai Ye is willing to give us... no, Morgan Stanley a three-year, $20 billion interest-free loan, we will be very grateful."

Scotty Russ added, "If Master Osborne is willing to purchase another $30 billion of Morgan Stanley's upcoming private equity fund shares, then we two brothers will follow you, Master Osborne."

"Clap clap clap!"

Bai Ye held a cigarette in his mouth, clapped his hands, and said with a smile:

"Morgan Stanley is Morgan Stanley. They can guess the approximate profit of our Galaxy Capital this time. $50 billion, they want to swallow it all. After all this time, we, Galaxy Capital, are working for you, Morgan Stanley."

"Not really," Keith Boone said hurriedly. "If a three-year interest-free loan is too long, a one-year loan will do. The private equity fund that Morgan Stanley is about to issue is managed by a top manager and has high returns. It is welcomed by many wealthy people. Master Osborne, you can't afford to suffer a loss or be fooled."

Of course, this is just to fool people with low IQ. Although there are various excuses, once the 50 billion US dollars is in their hands, they will have the final say on everything.

With evidence in hand, would Bai Ye still dare to sue them in court?

How much benefit can they get by telling Roxxon that Galaxy Capital shorted Roxxon? At most tens of millions of dollars, but if they use it to threaten Bai Ye, how much money can they get? 50 billion US dollars!

This is what truly smart people do!

"You are all thousand-year-old foxes, what are you talking about in front of me?" Bai Ye laughed and said, "I have to say, your appetite is really amazing. Five billion US dollars... How much money is that? It's a sum you can't spend in ten lifetimes! Do you really dare to take it?"