"Mr. Xiao, this is the gambling agreement we have drafted. Please take a look at it. If there are no problems, then we can prepare a formal contract." Danze looked tired, but he was very energetic.

He was so satisfied that even his tone of voice towards Xiao Qi became gentler.

Regarding the matter of the platinum user card, Merrill Lynch Bank has also consulted Citibank. Knowing that Xiao Qi's funds in Citibank are more than one billion US dollars and can be frozen at any time, the people at Merrill Lynch Bank laughed and wished that Xiao Qi would be released immediately.

Qi signed the contract, and then the time suddenly arrived on January 1st next year, and he would be able to reap the one billion US dollars.

After their discussion, based on the comprehensive judgment of various intelligence, the New York oil futures in the United States, even if they do not surge to around 120 to 30 US dollars by the end of the year, will at least not be less than 100 US dollars, eating up Xiao Qi's billion

The deposit is no problem.

Therefore, Merrill Lynch did not question Xiao Qi's gambling agreement, but there was still something that it wanted to change.

"Mr. Xiao, why can't we bet bigger?" Franco said to Xiao Qi with a smile, "I heard that you want to buy ADI, then our Merrill Lynch Bank will also add ADI, you just need to buy it again

Just bet $200 million."

Merrill Lynch was greedy. They thought they were sure to win, so they simply came up with a betting plan that looked like they were losing money, trying to trick Xiao Qi.

Xiao Qi originally paid 250 million US dollars for the acquisition, but now they have reduced it to 50 million US dollars. If you are an impulsive person, you will definitely feel that you have made a profit and sign the agreement immediately.

Xiao Qi was a little stunned. He didn't expect that after going around in a circle, he could still get ADI in his pocket. It seemed that God had allowed him to achieve a great career.

But appearances still need to be done, and everyone has to put on another face to deceive people. This kind of business is really not very enjoyable.

After thinking about it, Xiao Qi shook his head and said: "I'm sorry, I only have a little over one billion US dollars in my US dollar account. The rest is useful."

"What's so difficult about this?" Merrill Lynch Bank had already figured out Xiao Qi's basics at this time. "As long as you sign a contract for us, we will naturally contact China Construction Bank and freeze the corresponding funds.

Get up."

"It seems that you have already planned it." Xiao Qi looked at him funny and said.

"Don't we all have different positions?" Franco was very thick-skinned. "If Mr. Xiao wins, then you will be the one counting the money."

"good!"

Xiao Qi pretended to ask for a while, and finally nodded.

Xiao Qi read it himself and found that the gambling agreement was written in a very formal manner, and there were no problems with the most critical points.

But just to be on the safe side, he gave it to Anthony to take a look at.

As a lawyer in the United States, Anthony was very familiar with various contracts. After carefully checking them several times, he confirmed that there was no trap of contract fraud.

Wade, the manager of the VIP service department of Citibank New York Branch, who rushed to the scene, was also helping Xiao Qi check the details of the contract.

Involving the freezing of one billion U.S. dollars and the corresponding gambling contract, Wade secretly sighed that another food delivery person for Merrill Lynch had come, but on the other hand, he was unwilling for Xiao Qi to lose, because at that time, this billion

The US dollar cash will be transferred to Merrill Lynch Bank and has nothing to do with Citibank from now on.

After the confirmation, Franco represented Merrill Lynch, Xiao Qi represented Qicai Investment, Wade represented Citibank, and Anthony represented Mario Law Firm. Everyone signed the gambling agreement and corresponding documents, announcing this time

The gambling agreement was reached.

A group of people from Merrill Lynch opened champagne on the spot to congratulate the agreement.

Xiao Qi was naturally very happy, pretending not to notice the fool-like expressions of the people at Merrill Lynch Bank, thinking who the fool was, he would find out in a few months.

…

On Monday morning, Xiao Qi also obtained a gambling agreement similar to that of Merrill Lynch from the Goldman Sachs investment bank.

The two financial investment institutions had similar rejection reasons and methods. Xiao Qi naturally tricked Goldman Sachs: Merrill Lynch has taken the bait anyway, so you and Goldman Sachs should come in too!

Goldman Sachs is not a good company anyway.

Since the 1980s, Goldman Sachs has been involved in almost every financial crisis in the world.

Citibank is a little better, and even Merrill Lynch is passable, but Goldman Sachs is the most greedy and shameless investment bank.

They rely on their excellent financial capabilities and accurate judgment of world trends to control crises one after another and continue to obtain high profits from them!

As for not breaking the law, is there no moral bottom line?

WHOCARE!?

The bet between Xiao Qi and Goldman Sachs, in addition to the $1 billion bet margin, naturally also included information related to Texas Instruments.

Of course, Texas Instruments is much larger than ADI, and their wireless communication chip division is worth billions of dollars. It is naturally impossible for Goldman Sachs to bet all of it against Xiao Qi.

What they were betting on was Texas Instruments' technology licensing of wireless communication chips. If Xiao Qi won the bet, Xiao Qi would be able to use the wireless communication chip patents owned by Texas Instruments for free within ten years.

Pay a penny of patent fees and you don’t need to seek patent authorization.

Comparatively speaking, the amount of the bet of 200 million US dollars is actually larger. However, Goldman Sachs is more confident than Merrill Lynch, so it is not afraid that Xiao Qi will not take the bait.

Little did he know that in the eyes of this reborn young man, these two financial giants were really money-giving boys.

No one thought that this betting agreement was too hasty, and it was actually decided within a few hours.

Don’t think of Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs as domestic bureaucratic banks. It can take three to five months to make a plan.

As long as it's profitable, their reaction speed and action speed will definitely make everyone stunned.

The two major investment banks have been studying the trend of oil and have mature response mechanisms. After calculating that oil is unlikely to decline, they immediately and decisively seize the big fish Xiao Qi to prevent the huge bet of 1.2 billion US dollars from slipping away.

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Such decisiveness is the normal thinking mode of financial giants like them, and it is one of the important reasons why they have become the top three investment banks in the world!

Anthony thought that his little boss had 1.2 billion U.S. dollars, which was enough to be proud of. But when he saw Xiao Qi taking out 1.2 billion U.S. dollars as frozen funds for the second time, he could only pray secretly that the little boss must win the battle.
Chapter completed!