The rebirth of the Hong Kong Island chaebol, starting with a short-selling Eagle Sauce

Many industry experts feel that Cayman Capital sold ASML too early. When the f2 laser advocated by Smit is successfully developed, it will not be a problem to sell 30% of the shares for US$500 billion.

It was a notoriously losing proposition.

Fortunately, Cayman Capital is not a listed company, and ordinary people are not qualified to subscribe to the financial products launched by Cayman Capital, so its business has hardly been affected by public opinion.

However, ASML’s shares have risen again due to its “premium” acquisition.

Just when Robert thought this matter would be over soon.

Some boring media in this beautiful country revealed some "amazing inside stories"!

According to an ASML executive who asked not to be named, Cayman Capital made the decision to sell ASML at a low price as a last resort.

Everyone was very curious and looked down with relish.

"Because Robert has always been at a disadvantage in the power struggle, and has even reached the point where he is afraid of facing Mr. Smit. Faced with the trump cards that Mr. Smit keeps throwing out, Robert, who is unable to take it, has to sell Asmer at a loss. "

The news that the Big Short failed to seize power and was kicked out of the board of directors by the president of ASML immediately became a topic of conversation after dinner.

Robert was dumbfounded. This executive who did not want to be named could not be Smit himself.

He also didn't expect that the words used to prevaricate others would be passed around and become somewhat true.

For a moment, he was unable to argue, and Wang Lei expressed deep sympathy for him:

"Brother, you've definitely taken the blame."

So much so that his work has been affected and he is surrounded by the media every day.

"Sir, now the public thinks that you are defeated by Smit. We want to hear your opinion."

Robert couldn't help but say a few more words.

“Cayman Capital sold ASML simply because we were not optimistic about ASML’s future.”

The reporter seemed to have heard the big news and asked excitedly:

"Are you not optimistic about the development of f2 laser?"

"Yes, I better understand the latest immersion method theory published by Bachelor Lin Benjian. Schmidt's research and development of f2 laser is fundamentally a wrong direction."

This did not free Robert from the troubles of public opinion, but made people in the industry laugh even harder.

Because most manufacturers in the market focus on the research and development of light sources for lithography machines, they mainly focus on deep ultraviolet and f2 lasers. Everyone feels that as long as they continue to research and develop, they will get a big breakthrough sooner or later.

But Robert, a financial professional, actually came to say that the f2 laser was fundamentally in the wrong direction.

How could everyone resist laughing at him.

So an expert immediately jumped out and laughed at Robert for not knowing anything about micro-optics.

The theory of immersion method, which had not caused any waves in the first place, has once again attracted criticism.

These experts and scholars were quite polite to Robert, but when it came to Lin Benzian, they were full of fire. Some even hoped to expel this heretic from the Optical Association.

People from Beautiful China, Sakura Island, and the Netherlands have all come forward to accuse Lin Benjian of being a spoiler. It has become an industry consensus that immersion is a crooked idea.

Some experts even wrote to Wang Lei, hoping that Wang Lei could completely abandon investment in Lin Benjian’s R&D team.

Lin Benjian's face turned dark when he saw these letters.

"Boss, the water immersion method is the best way to solve the wavelength problem, you..."

"Of course I believe you, otherwise I wouldn't have invested so much money. I just treat these letters as a joke.

I hope you will continue your efforts, put immersion into use as soon as possible, and develop a new generation of lithography machines. "

"Thanks to my boss for his trust. We have made great breakthroughs in research and development. It won't take long for us to prove that we are right."

Perhaps because he is getting closer to success, Lin Benjian has become more and more confident.

"Very good. I have asked people to register all the patents in advance. In the future, if they want to use the immersion type, they will not be able to bypass our Peninsula Technology."

When they thought of this, both of them were in a good mood.

No matter how you ridicule now, there will always be a day when we bow our heads in the face of more advanced technology.

Lin Benjian is also very happy, because he doesn't have to spend energy to convince Wang Lei to trust him, and he doesn't have to spend money asking manufacturers to provide him with machines for research and development.

There is no need to worry about R&D funds. Peninsula Technology has almost no other investments.

It can be said that he responds to all requests. This kind of trust is something that the boss of IBM cannot give him.

He also realized the things he had boasted about one by one, and truly achieved a 100-fold return.

This kind of gratitude is very good, and the welfare benefits of Peninsula Technology are not generally good. He and his wife are very happy, so he decisively rejected TSMC's invitation.

After the unhappy Robert sent several lawyer letters, public opinion finally calmed down.

He can finally focus all his energy on acquisitions.

After being summoned, Lindgren and his younger brother Bobby arrived at the headquarters of Cayman Capital surrounded by a large group of staff.

Bobby had also seen the world, but after seeing the Cayman Capital building, he was stunned.

This towering building is a beautiful sight on Wall Street.

"Boss, why did you say Robert summoned us?"

Lindgren did not hide it from him and expressed his guess:

"The high probability is that we hope that Husky will start mergers and acquisitions."

Bobby nodded in agreement.

Due to the impact of the East Asian financial crisis and another oil price war, oil prices began to decline rapidly in 1997.

The price of oil, which had finally risen with great effort, fell again to more than 20 US dollars per barrel.

If it continues to fall like this, it is very possible for it to fall to $10/barrel.

Every industry has its own peak and trough periods, and the oil industry is currently in this trough period.

It is no exaggeration to say that the past two years have been a cold winter for the oil industry.

It can be seen from the financial reports released by major oil companies that the revenue of all oil companies fell short of expectations, and many companies suffered large losses for the first time since 1990.

Husky's revenue is not optimistic either. Affected by the financial crisis and the double-layer negative buff of the price war, total revenue in 97 fell to US$618 billion, a 30% decline from the previous year.

The performance of the oil giants is dismal, and the lives of many small oil companies naturally need no further description.

And the entire industry is very pessimistic, feeling that this wave of impact may continue into the new century.

Many small oil companies are poised to fail.

This cold winter period is a rare opportunity for a large group like Husky.

With Cayman Capital as their backing, they don’t have to worry about cash flow at all.