Chapter 1013 Finale 2015
Chapter 1013 Finale①: 2015
After Barron returned to London, he celebrated his 35th birthday.
On October 19, the day after his birthday, it had been three months since Alibaba went public.
However, according to the 90-day lock-up period, in fact, on October 17, the day before Barron’s birthday, the Alibaba shares held by DS Holdings (Cavendish Trust) were already able to be sold publicly in the secondary market.
Of course, according to relevant American regulations, major shareholders need to disclose the situation when reducing their holdings, which will naturally have a certain impact on the stock price.
Since Alibaba went public, its stock price has generally been on an upward trend, and its current stock price is around $105.
Because the 18th and 19th are weekends, on October 20, Alibaba announced that its major shareholder DS Holdings’ holdings were unlocked and that it would partially reduce its holdings.
In response, a spokesperson for DS Holdings said that according to Alibaba's explanation at the time of listing and the agreement between them and Alibaba's management, they will complete the sale of approximately 231.42 million Alibaba shares out of a total of approximately 292.98 million shares they hold within one year from now.
The purpose is to enable more investors to participate in the investment in Alibaba, an e-commerce giant that is in a leading position in China and has great development potential.
And their reduction of holdings will follow the principle of "slow walking", and it is expected that only less than 1% of the total share capital will be sold in the next 15 trading days.
After these announcements were released, Alibaba's stock price only fell slightly, but with their excellent revenue performance, its stock price soon recovered its lost ground.
Next, on November 14, Alibaba's stock price rose sharply, driven by the news that Alibaba had set a sales record of 57.1 billion yuan in the just-passed Double Eleven Shopping Carnival.
During the trading session on the 14th, its stock price reached nearly $120 at its highest!
On Monday, November 18, DS Holdings disclosed to the public that they had sold 5% of Alibaba's total shares.
Until Christmas, DS Holdings had sold about 231.42 million of the total 292.98 million Alibaba shares they held, and would not sell any more shares in the short term.
This time, DS Holdings sold a total of about 231.42 million Alibaba shares, with an average selling price of about $112.45, and received a total of about $26 billion.
"The U.S. stock market will continue to rise next year as the economy recovers, so our funds will continue to be used to invest in the U.S. stock market..."
Of course, in addition to this purpose, Barron is also preparing to use the income from these investments to enable DS Holdings to complete the overall acquisition of BFT Fund in a few years.
In this way, they will obtain the shares held by BFT Fund, including Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo, and avoid a large amount of capital gains tax.
And they can also use the funds acquired to exchange pounds for low exchange rates against the U.S. dollar and return them to the British government.
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March 20, 2015.
Kolo held its fourth general election since the establishment of the new government. Thomas Kaboré, who led Kolo to rapid development in the previous term, was successfully re-elected and will start his second term.
In the new government formed by Thomas Kaboré, Hector Pate, president of the United Bank for Africa, who had just completed his term, was nominated as Kolo's Minister of Finance; and Roman House, deputy director of the Kolo Development and Reform Research Center, was appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs…
According to statistics, five people in Thomas Kaboré's new government had worked in the West African Group and related institutions.
On March 25, the Kolo Corps announced that it would order 12 EF2000 (Typhoon) fighters from the British BAE Systems Company, as well as a series of mounted missiles and weapons including Storm Shadow. The total amount of this order will exceed 1 billion euros.
On April 2, the heads of the member states of the West African Free Trade Organization held a meeting in Britta, the capital of Colo. The member states of the West African Free Trade Organization, including Colo, Ghana, Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger, decided to form a joint anti-terrorist force to jointly strike against anti-government armed forces and terrorists in the West African Free Trade Zone. They named this joint anti-terrorist operation "West African Peace Mission 2015".
In this anti-terrorist operation, the West African Joint Anti-Terrorist Force widely used a variety of drones to conduct reconnaissance and air strikes against anti-government armed forces and terrorists. With its help, this operation was very successful. In the following two years, the West African Joint Anti-Terrorist Force basically eliminated the unstable factors within the West African Free Trade Zone.
And it also made the West African Joint Anti-Terrorist Force the most combat-capable force in West Africa and even in Africa.
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On May 7, the British Parliament held a general election for the House of Commons. In the end, the Conservative Party led by Cameron was successfully re-elected. Cameron formed the first majority government of the Conservative Party in 23 years.
The government formed by Cameron, except for some adjustments in individual positions, basically still has the same personnel as the cabinet reshuffled in July last year. In particular, there has been no change in important core members such as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, and Home Secretary.
After winning the election, Cameron said that according to his previous promise, Britain will hold a referendum on Brexit before 2017.
"It seems that the Brexit referendum will most likely be held next year..."
"Yes, you have to be prepared."
"What do you mean?"
Facing Joe Harriman's doubts, Barron just smiled and said lightly:
"If the result of the referendum is that Britain leaves the EU, then Cameron will have no choice but to resign."
A perfect version of the book in 1619!
"Will it really be like that? Maybe it will be like the Scottish independence referendum last year..."
But soon, Joe Harriman understood why Barron said that.
If refugees from the Middle East had always entered Europe as illegal immigrants before, then the situation began to take a sharp turn for the worse in 2015...
In the first half of 2015, a large number of refugees entered Europe from the Middle East and North Africa through the Mediterranean and the Balkans to seek asylum.
At the same time, because the EU and Turkey have not been able to reach an agreement in negotiations, Turkey has allowed refugees to cross the border, and even its domestic "snakeheads" have made money from it...
According to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration, as of November 21, 2015, the total number of refugees and immigrants who have traveled to Europe through the Mediterranean and land has exceeded 1 million!
Especially after German Chancellor Merkel announced on September 4, 2015 that the border would be open to refugees, this decision directly led to a large number of asylum seekers entering Germany from the Austrian border.
Between 2015 and 2016, more than one million asylum seekers entered Germany, which also led to serious differences in the EU's treatment of refugees.
Although the EU tried to share the burden through the refugee distribution plan, Eastern and Western European countries had different opinions on this. Some countries, such as Hungary, even opposed the forced sharing of refugees - the British people also opposed accepting refugees.
Some European countries have taken measures to block borders and tighten refugee policies, resulting in a large number of refugees trapped in border areas, triggering humanitarian crises and social conflicts.
The refugee crisis has put tremendous pressure on European society and economy, increased the economic burden of European countries, triggered xenophobia and social instability, and also exposed loopholes in the EU's internal refugee acceptance system, posing a challenge to the European integration process.
That is, in 2015, when the most serious refugee crisis faced by Europe since World War II began, Euroscepticism in Britain rose tremendously.
