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Most of the Galaxy Securities employees who followed Lin Haoran to Japan this time were old employees of Huanyu Investment Company, and the person in charge was one of the company's third batch of employees.

Therefore, many of them have witnessed Lin Haoran's brilliant achievements in investment.

From the initial profit of 70 million Hong Kong dollars from Wharf Holdings to Apple's low investment and high returns, they all firmly believe in their boss's title of "magician" in the investment world.

Although the scale of this operation on Sony stock was not the largest they had ever experienced, the precise judgment and keen sense of the market once again made them full of admiration for Lin Haoran.

Before this, no one had thought that Sony's stock price would soar.

The most important thing is that the media fanned the flames, and even the official media was involved.

Perhaps even the top executives at Sony did not expect this.

They had already released the news before to test the reaction of shareholders.

But who would have thought that the reaction of investors was so mediocre, as if they would not pay too much attention even if the sales volume was high.

After the announcement, even if there is an increase, an increase of a few percentage points would be good enough.

This is also after all the trials, no one has any intention of investing in Sony's stock market.

But with the help of the media, the attention was so great that everyone was shocked.

And today, after the transaction ended, the stock price rose directly by 36.6%.

Such results are terrifying.

You know, Sony's market value itself is as high as more than 1.3 trillion yen. Now, in just one day, its market value has exceeded 1.8 trillion yen, temporarily surpassing another giant, Toyota Motor Corporation.

This is absolutely a miracle.

At the beginning of the month, Toyota Motor's stock price was affected by the US-Japan auto negotiations, and its market value once fell from a peak of more than 1.9 trillion yen to around 1.6 trillion yen before finally stabilizing.

Even so, Toyota's market value ranks among the top among Japanese technology manufacturers.

No one had ever thought that Toyota would be surpassed by Sony.

No one expected that Sony's position in the Japanese business world would be further enhanced just because of a performance announcement.

Including Lin Haoran, everyone was very surprised.

That's a good thing, though.

The more it rises, the more he earns!

Unfortunately, the time he was given to plan was too short.

If he was given more than a month to plan his plans like Toyota did, he would definitely be able to make a fortune from this opportunity.

However, Lin Haoran soon figured it out. Money is something that can never be earned enough.

I only made a small amount of money at Sony, but I can still make a lot of money at Toyota.

Sony was originally his target. In addition to the 28 billion yen worth of stock he had acquired, Galaxy Securities had also acquired a lot of stock before.

After all, by 2000, the company's market value had reached a terrifying $1250 billion, which is a significant increase compared to its current size of only a few billion dollars.

However, Lin Haoran now has other uses for his funds, so he plans to sell most of his Sony shares first.

What he needs to do is to recover the funds and invest them in places that are more worthy of investment.

On the Toyota Motor side, good news also came from Citibank. Their negotiations with one of the fund companies have come to an end, and if nothing unexpected happens, the deal will be finalized in the next two days.

This is naturally a good thing. You know, the fund companies or investment companies that are negotiating now generally hold more than 2% of Toyota's shares.

A fund company that can become the target of Citibank is naturally not a small fund company.

Toyota Motor has always been a key investment company for many fund companies due to its ever-increasing performance every year.

Therefore, Citibank has now provided great convenience for Lin Haoran to acquire Toyota Motor shares.

At the same time, that evening, Lin Haoran received a call from Yasuya Kawai, general manager of Citibank Japan Branch.

He called to apologize.

"Mr. Lin, I am very sorry for causing you great losses. I previously advised you not to consider investing in Sony. Based on the research of industry experts, we believe that Sony's stock price will not rise significantly even after the results are announced.

However, the actual situation this time has greatly exceeded our expectations, which surprised me. In the financial field, our judgments are usually of certain reference value, but the sharp rise in Sony's stock price this time is indeed a special case.

We later learned that all mainstream media received instructions from the government that day to publicize this widely, which led to a sudden increase in discussion of Sony stock and a surge in the share price.

I'm really sorry that you missed this investment opportunity because of my advice." On the other end of the phone, Kawai Yasuya's voice was full of sincere apology.

He had to make this call because he had indeed persuaded Lin Haoran about this matter.

Moreover, he didn't know that after his persuasion, Lin Haoran turned around and asked his subordinates to continue buying Sony shares.

Therefore, Citibank was not aware that Lin Haoran had been eyeing Sony's stock. "Don't worry, Mr. Kawai, I won't blame you. As long as you can handle the Toyota issue for me, I will be very satisfied!" Lin Haoran said with a smile.

"I promise that I will not let Mr. Lin down and will give you the best result!" Kawai Yasuya promised on the phone.

At this moment, Lin Haoran realized that the reason why Sony's Walkman portable player's global sales data caused such a sensation in Japan was actually at the instruction of the Japanese government.

No wonder why all media, including official media, are reporting on this scale.

This reminded him of his past life.

A certain AI was suddenly widely reported by the media and its exposure rate increased greatly. As a result, this AI became the pride of the Chinese people, thereby enhancing the national pride.

Maybe this is something similar?

After it became popular, the stock prices of listed companies related to this AI also rose significantly.

However, such a high technological breakthrough in the country is indeed worthy of the pride of the entire nation.

Another day passed, and as expected, although Sony's stock price did not rise as much as the previous day, it did not fall either. Instead, it rose by another two points. Not much, but not bad either.

On the third day, the stock price rose by another point.

At this point, Sony's stock price has risen by more than 40% compared to before the announcement of its results.

Seeing this, Lin Haoran knew that if nothing unexpected happened, the increase should return to normal.

Therefore, Lin Haoran directly asked the staff of Galaxy Securities Department to start shipping the goods slowly.

The stocks that were originally worth more than 28 billion yen are now worth more than 40.7 billion yen.

This means that in the past ten days, he invested 700 million Hong Kong dollars and earned 300 million Hong Kong dollars. Although it is not a lot of money, the rate of return is very high.

This is a total of more than 40 billion yen worth of stocks. If they were sold all at once, it would have a huge impact on the stock price.

But if you sell it slowly over a few days, it's not a problem at all. As long as Sony's stock price doesn't fall, there's nothing wrong.

However, Lin Haoran was not worried at all because Sony had not yet distributed dividends.

He predicted that Sony's stock price would not fall much, if at all, before the dividend is paid.

So, take your time and don't rush.

Next, it is time to recover the funds.

Lin Haoran sat in his office and reviewed his current financial situation. The result satisfied him.

After allocating 4 billion yen to Southern Company, Galaxy Securities Company spent more than 28 billion yen, and he had very little available funds left.

Now that the funds have finally returned in the amount of several hundred billion yen, he felt relieved.

He has no other source of funding until the US-Japan automobile negotiations are concluded.

However, the time for the end of the US-Japan automobile negotiations in May is getting closer, with only about 40 days left, so a few hundred billion yen is more than enough.

In April, if Huo Jianning successfully wins the bid for Cheung Kong Real Estate, he will need to give a 10% price tag first. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be more than billion yen.

Minus this 10 billion yen from the 40 billion yen, there is still about 30 billion yen left, which is enough for the time being.

"Boss, no wonder you have such a status at such a young age. Your foresight can never be replicated by others." Keiko Yamada on the side was full of admiration at this moment.

It was expected that Sony’s stock price would surge, even though everyone was pessimistic about it.

The most important thing is that this kind of thing has happened more than once.

"It's just luck. In fact, I didn't expect that Japan's official media would personally come forward to support Sony." Lin Haoran shook his head and smiled.

He knew Sony would rise, but he didn't know Sony's stock price would rise so much.

On March 3, good news finally came from Citibank.

They successfully negotiated with a fund company again and successfully acquired 2.98% of Toyota Motor shares from them. Moreover, the final price agreed upon was 2% lower than the market price.

At this point, Citibank has acquired 8.45% of Toyota Motor shares for Lin Haoran, just one step away from his original goal of 10%.

With 8.45% of the shares, it has become the fourth largest shareholder of Toyota Motor.

If this news were made public, it would shock the whole of Japan.

You know, Toyota is the pride of the Japanese. It has successfully entered the European and American markets and defeated European and American automobile brands, becoming the world's second largest export automobile brand after Germany's Volkswagen. Now it is striving to become the world's number one export automobile brand.

However, misfortunes never come alone. No one had ever expected that when Toyota was at its peak, the United States would impose sanctions on Japanese cars.

Even so, Toyota is still the pride of the Japanese. (End of this chapter)