Chapter 561: Drag word battle

Thomas Kabore is the leader of the Colo Socialist Party.

Just three and a half years ago, he ran for the office of President of Kolo in the general election on behalf of the Kolo Socialist Party and Jammeh Bongo, who represented the Kolo People's Party, but ultimately lost.

In the last failure, Jammeh Bongo himself overthrew the previous military government through a coup with the support of Barron and formed a transitional government. Therefore, his prestige both at the top and among the people is much greater. The reason for higher.

Obviously, the purpose of his hope to be interviewed by Barron this time is still for the new general election to be held next year.

You know, during this term of office, Jammeh Bongo’s political achievements are still very outstanding. The development of Colo is obvious to all, and it has greatly improved the people’s quality of life...

The key is that Thomas Kabore is 5 years older than Jamei Bongo. Who knows what will happen if he fails to win the next election and waits for another four years, so he also hopes to get Barron The support of this big man behind the scenes.

At noon the next day, Barron had lunch with Thomas, but they mainly chatted with him. The topics were also some of Kolo's developments and problems that need to be faced over the years.

Barron did not give a clear answer to some of Thomas Kabore's obvious "loyalty" words. He only said that he would respect the choice of the people of Colo and hoped that Thomas would have a wonderful performance in next year's general election. Performance.

After all, most of the time, Barron no longer needs to directly influence the results of Colo's election. It's not that he respects "democracy", but that from the beginning, he has already regarded the West African Group as The seed was buried in Kolo's core.

Therefore, his treatment of Colo was completely different from the mentality of imperialist countries such as Britain and France in the past towards their colonies.

He doesn't have to worry about Kolo developing well and getting out of his control, because as Kolo develops, the West African Group will only take root deeper and deeper in it, absorb nutrients, and grow stronger.

Therefore, he will not interfere with the election of Kolo. Anyway, no matter who sits in the position of president, he must respect the interests of the West African Group in Kolo, otherwise it is impossible to continue to sit down.

Of course, Thomas Kabore also needs to meet. As the leader of the opposition party, Barron will also appease him appropriately.

At the same time, meeting Thomas can also give Jamei Bongo a little warning, so that he will not be lost in his status and the support of the people, and can be a little more sober.

…

"Your Highness the Duke, the Antitrust Bureau of the Ministry of Justice has received another application from Thomson Group to acquire Reuters Group. This time their acquisition plan has been adjusted. I'm afraid it will not be easy to continue to suppress it. If you don't If we can convince Reuters Group, the result will be..."

The call was from Bloomberg. What he was talking about was the antitrust investigation of the Thomson Group’s acquisition of Reuters by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

"Can you find a way to delay it for a while? Mr. Bloomberg, I think our goals are the same."

"I can only try my best, but I can't guarantee the result."

In terms of willingness, if Reuters Group is destined to be acquired, then as the boss of Bloomberg News, Bloomberg would definitely prefer that the acquirer is SEM Group. After all, in terms of share, Reuters Group will not increase. Bo News Agency still has the upper hand.

But from Bloomberg’s words, it can be heard that the Antitrust Bureau of the U.S. Department of Justice rejected the other party once, which is already the other party’s best effort. After Thomson Group adjusted the acquisition plan in order to pass the antitrust investigation, I am afraid that Even if it is delayed, it won't be delayed for too long.

The same is true here in England, but slightly better than in the United States, Barron's has greater influence on this side. After being rejected in the last review, even if the Thomson Group applies again, Barron's will be able to apply again. Delay for at least two or three months...

Two or three months is enough, because as long as Britain and the European Union do not approve this acquisition plan, Thomson Group's acquisition of Reuters Group will not be successful.

The reason why we want the United States to delay as much as possible is because if the antitrust review in the United States passes, it will put great pressure on the relevant review agencies in the United Kingdom and the European Union. In this way, even if they delay, they cannot delay it for too long.

It is now mid-to-late September, and soon the U.S. stock market will reach the peak before the subprime mortgage crisis, and then it will usher in a decline.

Whether the stock price of Thomson Group or the stock price of Reuters Group falls, it will have an impact on their acquisition.

Speaking of which, more than four months have passed since Thomson Group began its acquisition of Reuters Group in May this year...

In fact, in time and space, the acquisition of Thomson Group and Reuters Group was basically confirmed in May, so the fact that it can be delayed for four months or even half a year is because of Barron's "efforts" in it. The result...

But even so, SEM Group's acquisition of Reuters Group still has not made much progress.

Obviously, the Reuters Group's board of directors, including Reuters Group's President and CEO Tom Grosser, is more inclined to merge with Thomson Group.

The reason is as mentioned before. For Reuters Group, the merger with Thomson Group can make the new company's market share rank first in the industry, and in terms of synergy, the merged company can reduce a lot of expenses. , produce greater benefits.

After all, the acquisitions of both parties include share exchanges. Putting aside cash, they also hope that the shares of the new company they get will have greater value.

unless……

SEM Group is willing to increase the purchase price of Reuters Group, but having said that, knowing that the subprime mortgage crisis will further erupt soon, affecting the stock market and causing the market value of Reuters Group to fall, then how can Barron's be willing to significantly increase the purchase price? Woolen cloth?

Unless it comes to a time when Thomson Group is about to acquire Reuters Group.

At present, it seems that he can still continue to postpone this time, which is why Barron will still be patient with this acquisition.

By this time, Barron had returned to London from West Africa. As soon as he returned, he had asked his public relations team to continue to fully promote the British Competition and Markets Authority's review of the Thomson Group's acquisition of Reuters.

At the same time, Tianhe Capital, which is far away in China, mobilized funds through one of their investment companies in Hong Kong and began to short-sell Thomson Group's shares on a large scale in the stock markets of the United States and Canada!