As expected in the pre-market news, economists estimated that Apple's stock price rose 14% instantly after the opening, from 3.74 to 4.26, and continued to rise. Investors cheered and said that they had suppressed Apple's stock for too long and lost too much. Now they are finally going to clear the dark clouds and see the bright moon!

At the same time, Li Ziwei and Tim Cook were talking on the phone and were telling him Li Mu's decision. Li Mu was sitting in the conference room of Muye Technology to continue to communicate with others about the subsequent details of the acquisition of Apple. Louis Martin suddenly received a message. When he opened it, he looked shocked and blurted out: "Mr. Li, there is an emergency!

Li Mu asked him: "What happened?"

"The news of our acquisition of Apple has already reached the market, and Apple's stock price is now rising rapidly, and it is almost $4.5 now," said Louis Martin.

Li Mu frowned for a moment and said, "This news is definitely the biggest benefit for Apple investors today, right?"

Louis Martin nodded and said, "If the stock price soars, the cost of our privatization will increase significantly as the stock price grows rapidly."

Lin Qingya, who doesn't understand the US stock market very well, asked him: "Mr. Martin, as long as we get most of Apple's shares, we can apply for forced delisting. There is no need to pay for the inflated stock price, right?"

Louis Martin said: "We must pay the bill. If our holdings and votes exceed 66.6%, we do have the right to force delist, but the prerequisite is that Nasdaq nods. When our stock price is 4.15, we proposed to Nasdaq to use 150% of 4.15 as the privatization price. Nasdaq naturally has no objection. After all, this protects the interests of investors. But if the stock price rises to $6, we will demand forced delisting at this price. In order to protect the interests of investors, Nasdaq will never pass. In that way, our total acquisition cost will increase a lot."

Lin Qingya frowned and said, "If this is the case, wouldn't we have to pay a large amount of additional funds?"

"If the stock price continues to rise, we will pay more and more extra money, and those institutions are obviously trying to make a big profit by taking a ride," said Louis Martin.

Lin Qingya hurriedly looked at Li Mu.

If the acquisition and privatization are carried out according to the previous framework agreement for acquiring Apple, the money Makino Technology has in its hands is just enough except for normal operation.

But if the cost of Apple's privatization suddenly increases, Makino Technology will once again fall into a situation where there is not enough money, which will be too passive.

Just when everyone was a little nervous, Li Mu, who had been silent all the time, suddenly asked Louis Martin: "The main players on the Nasdaq should be doing their best to absorb funds now, right?"

Louis Martin nodded and said, "Although I don't know anything about it, it's certain that these major investment institutions must be sucking money in a crazy way because they know best how much profit margins privatization can bring.

Li Mu nodded and said lightly: "The meeting is suspended first, don't worry, this matter may not be a bad thing for us."

No one dared to answer the conversation because in their opinion, if this is not a bad thing, there will be nothing bad.

Li Mu still said to Louis Martin with a calm expression: "Louis, you immediately find a reliable news channel. I want all the current trends of Nasdaq about Apple's stock."

Louis Martin nodded: "No problem, I'll get to know this."

Immediately, Louis Martin immediately activated his connections and grasped the current trends of the entire situation in detail.

The stock price had already exceeded $4.6 at this time, but at this time, a large number of rumors began to affect retail investors in Nasdaq in all aspects.

Some people say that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Apple's stock price will definitely rise sharply under the stimulation of this good news. At this time, snatching Apple's stocks will not only capture a wave of market conditions and make a big profit, but also earn another stock price premium when Muye Technology starts privatization. After all, Nasdaq has frequently privatized listed companies, and investors will be given a certain premium when repurchasing stocks. This is basically a practice of Nasdaq.

Some of them are completely opposite. They say that all this is actually a conspiracy of securities funds. They have a large number of Apple stocks in their hands and have suffered heavy losses. They urgently need to unpack them to recover their losses and recover funds. Therefore, they release false news and make investors rush to buy Apple stocks in a crazi manner. They can take the opportunity to raise the stock price and ship them quickly. After Muye Technology refutes the rumors, the stock price will fall retaliatedly, and all investors who rush to buy will be doomed;

Some people believe that the acquisition rumor will become Apple's best opportunity; others believe that this is a big pit specially excavated for retail investors, a big pit that can make people die without a burial place.

Gradually, the proportion of these remarks changed, from the 55th to the 28th opening at the beginning. Most of the rumors tend to be more inclined to the 20th opening at the beginning. This "opportunity" is actually a super pit, and gradually makes retail investors with less determined mind lose their confidence.

As a result, the stock price began to fall after reaching a maximum of US$4.66.

Louis Martin told Li Mu: "The stock price fall will trigger a round of selling, and it should be that the main force is going to absorb funds."

"Absorbing funds?" Li Mu's expression was a little erratic.

Louis Martin nodded and said, "The main force must be more optimistic about the wave of our acquisition of Apple. They have put so much effort into it. In fact, they just want to deceive retail investors to sell, and then achieve low-price funding and lock the subsequent market in their arms.

Li Mu suddenly realized, stood up, and said to everyone in the conference room: "Everyone will continue to pay attention to the trends, I'll call first."

...

Li Mu made this phone call for twenty minutes. Since he went back to his own office to call, no one knew who he called and what he was going to do.

Just after Li Mu returned to the conference room, the rumors on the market soon began to escalate.

The new remarks focus more on "Li Jufu". From the perspective of business, strength, future development, Li Mu's personality and other directions, they have a comprehensive analysis and interpretation. In the end, they concluded that Li Mu could not really want to acquire Apple, all this may be just a conspiracy.

For example: They analyzed Apple's business situation in depth and believed that Apple's current overall situation would be of no benefit to Muye Technology, and Muye Technology had no reason to acquire Apple;

For example, they believe that Apple’s mess will cause significant losses to the buyers. Li Mu never makes losses, so how could he invest in Apple?

For example, they felt that Li Mu's personality would never acquire his defeated generals. Apple was destroyed by him. No matter what the situation was, Li Mu would never help Apple rebuild;

So, as the older people grow, more and more people begin to believe that this "opportunity" is actually a "death vortex". Taking advantage of the improvement of the stock price and not starting to fall, it is wisest to quickly cut off the stock market and leave.

When retail investors began to have such ideas, a large number of retail investors began to sell their stocks. In their opinion, the stock price has risen a lot now. Sell it quickly, get rid of Apple's stocks that fell to the end, and quickly recover some losses. This is the most important thing.

Under this psychological effect, the market set off a selling boom, and Apple's stock price continued to fall, and soon fell to the $4.31 level, with a very fast decline.

But what is interesting is that no matter how many people in the market are selling Apple's circulating shares, there are people who are silently accepting every sell order in obscurity, like a huge sponge, desperately absorbing every drop of water that can be touched.

No matter how many people put out selling orders, they will be immediately acquired by investors of unknown origin, which has caused the turnover rate of Apple's outstanding shares to surge, which is particularly eye-catching.

At this time, rumors spread: "The turnover rate of Apple stocks is amazing. It seems that the main force is already running away!"

As soon as the rumors of the main force escaping came out, almost all the real retail investors were not calm. What they feared the most was to be the buyer, which was just like the law that the water ghost had to find a scapegoat to be reborn. The one who was the buyer was to sleep in the water ghost for a long time in exchange for the unlucky ghost who was reborn by the water ghost itself. Retail investors would rather cut their flesh than fall into this end.

Just when retail investors were panic, a new rumor was filled with the market: "The main force is fleeing smoothly and quickly, and stupid retail investors are still buying Apple stocks crazy because of fantasy stocks continue to rise. This gives the main force an excellent opportunity to escape. It won't take long to take the main force to liquidate the entire market and throw all the mess to retail investors.

Retail investors are now becoming more nervous. Most of the retail investors are individuals. They cannot know what kind of operations the retail investors in the entire market are doing. In fact, the real market situation is: retail investors are constantly being fooled, selling their Apple stocks because they are afraid of being a deep trap and being a buyer, and preparing to stop losses in time. The main players who spread rumors are greedily absorbing the Apple stocks sold by every retail investor.

The facts are completely opposite to rumors. The main force not only did not escape, but realized that this was an excellent opportunity, so he was ready to absorb more chips.

However, the circulating chips are limited after all. If no one on the market is willing to sell, others will not be able to get more chips. Moreover, if the price is raised too high, the cost of the main force's absorption of chips will also increase. Therefore, the main force began to deceive retail investors through various operations, making retail investors believe that the stock is about to fall or even plummet, thereby inducing retail investors to sell and absorb chips themselves.

Such operations are not only in the Chinese stock market, but also in the US stock market. It is also very common in various currency speculation circles in later generations. Today, there may be a lot of news that a certain kind of virtual currency is about to plummet, and the entire market seems to be slandering such virtual currency. Investors are afraid of deep traps and hurriedly taking action at a low price. At this time, the main force behind the scenes who operate everything quickly absorbed it into their hands at a low price, and then did some moves to raise the value of the currency again and make a lot of profits.

For example, a certain virtual currency fell from US$1,000 to 700, then rose from 700 to 1,100, then fell to 650, and then rose back to 1,000. It seems that the currency value has been tossing and then returned to the starting point, but in the battle behind it, some people have made a lot of money, and some people have lost money and committed suicide by jumping off the building.

The real main force manipulated the virtual currency from US$1,000 to 700. Among them, retail investors sold and suffered losses. The main force absorbed funds at the 700 level, and then rose to 1,100. Then they created false prosperity to the outside world, making retail investors think that the virtual currency would continue to rise. Then they began to clear the stock and shipped the stock, earning more than 50% of the profit. After shipment, they continued to manipulate the value of the virtual currency to fall, which caused panic again, and then absorbed funds and increased the price after the value of the currency bottomed out...

In short, in every price fluctuation, the main force plays a low-buy and sell high, while most retail investors buy high and sell low. The final result is that retail investors lose a lot, while the main force makes a lot of money.

Now Apple's stock price is playing this way. The main force creates panic, lowers the stock price, triggers selling and then sucks money wildly, and everything is like flowing.

To everyone's expectations, although Li Mu's expression was always serious, he was not impatient at all, and he was not even angry. Since he made that call, he has been paying a calm attention to Apple's stock price and the general trend of trading.

By the afternoon, Apple's stock price had already fluctuated to a trend comparable to that of a healthy person's electrocardiogram, but in the continuous fluctuations, the overall trend was declining, and the stock price fell all the way below the US$4.3, 4.2, 4.1 level, and a tug-of-war began before the level 4.03-4.01.

The overall downward trend has strengthened the trust of retail investors in the market for rumors. More and more people believe that Apple's stock price will continue to fall, so retail investors have more and more chips. In the past half day, the fierce Wall Street Securities' main force has almost completely sucked up all the stocks in Apple retail investors' hands.

Louis Martin told Li Mu a very critical data: According to his information, so far, the Apple stocks in the hands of ordinary retail investors have been sucked away by more than 90.

At the same time, Louis Martin sighed to Li Mu: "These main players are so cruel. They completely scared ordinary investors. Almost all the outstanding stocks on the market are in their pockets."

Li Mu smiled slightly and didn't say anything. He thought to himself that although the main force was cruel, it was far from so detailed. In Louis Martin's opinion, half of the rumors that must have been released by the main force to the outside world were Li Mu later released Zhao Kang's navy! And the rumors that made retail investors frightened and believed in the later period were almost all the masterpieces of Zhao Kang's navy!

In Li Mu's view, these main forces took the opportunity to raise Apple's stock price, and then created panic and crazy fund-absorbing. The next step will definitely increase the stock price again after the fund-absorbing is over, and then make huge profits based on high stock prices and additional premium compensation for privatization.

What is the difference between this and knowing that it is going to be demolished and then rushing to plant houses and other demolition compensation? With Li Mu's personality, it is impossible for these small main players to succeed. It is no different from dreaming during the day.

Not only these guys are thinking about getting wool from Li Mu, but Li Mu actually wants to go to Nasdaq to cut leeks. But as a businessman with strong social influence, he cannot directly cut leeks in the Nasdaq market, especially the leeks of retail investors, because the leeks of retail investors are like vegetable fields for fellow villagers. Everyone wants to cut them, but those who really can do it are the local tyrants and bad gentry, and those who are truly well-known will definitely not be able to cut them.

Since you can't help cutting the leeks of fellow villagers, it's better to create better conditions for these main institutions first so that they can quickly absorb funds. After they turn the vegetable fields of fellow villagers into their own vegetable fields, they can cut them a good wave of leeks!
Chapter completed!