“But remember to keep a good eye on him this time. Don’t let him fool around with his useless friends. He almost got involved in a murder last time and that’s not a small issue.”
“The Law family is powerful, and that’s why we’re very strict with who succeeds the family business. The moment his record is tarnished with a charge like that, it’d be a huge hit to him and the Law family.”
Jasper nodded and replied, “I know what to do.”
“Right, and Uncle Law? If possible, perhaps you could release news of this to two of the other four richest families, excluding Wallace Langdon’s family.”
“You want them to join..?”
“I don’t have such plans in mind yet, but like I said. It’s just a precaution.”
“Alright. I’ll invite them out for tea.”
After a few more idle exchanges, the video call ended since Zachary had some other business to attend to.
While Jasper began to plan in the mainlands, his operations against the market trend in the United States financial market finally attracted the attention of some forces, particularly due to his astronomical amount of funds.
Somer Descents might be the most hardworking and smartest people, but that did not mean they could overlook the western world’s power.
After all, the west had been the true rulers of the world for the past few centuries.
The west was led the world almost all aspects, be it modern economies, finance, governments, and armed forces.
The blood filled sufferings of Somer descents a century ago was a lesson to them not to look down on these blond haired and blue eyed men.
“Mr. Rogers, according to the evaluation report, Jasper’s began to operate against the market trend 11 days ago. He first sold a majority of the stocks under his name and gained no less than 200 million US Dollars.”
“Then, he gathered his funds from mainland Somerland and began to short-sell the Dow Jones Index while buying gold futures.”
“As of this moment, he has a total position worth 530 million US Dollars.”
As the chief of Quantum Funds’ think tank, Vincent had a scholarly air about him. The elegant gentleman had a pair of gold-rimmed glasses sitting on his nose and he looked like a university professor.
The man spoke calmly and at a normal pace, but his words were clear and his gentle voice sounded very friendly.
Sitting behind the office table, Rogers looked at the evaluation report in his hand expressionlessly.
“Vincent, tell me. What do you think Jasper’s intentions are?” Rogers asked.
Vincent replied calmly, “We don’t have sufficient material and data yet to profile him or logically predict what he’s about to do.”
Rogers put the report down and got up to take a bottle of red wine from the wine cabinet in his office. He poured Vincent a glass first before he said, “My old friend. Forget the data, why do you think Jasper’s doing this?”
Vincent sipped the red wine and replied with a shrug, “Maybe he’s crazy.”
“The Dow Jones Index might be oscillating, but anyone with more than six months of investment experience could tell that this is just a technical pullback of the market.”
“This alone is something our Quantum Funds as well as the other financial companies in Wall Street have arrived at a consensus of.”
“But based on Jasper’s current operations, we can tell that he thinks a stock crisis is about to happen and he wants to profit from the United States citizens.”
Rogers chuckled and replied, “That’s impossible unless there’s suddenly war on United States grounds, and the United States loses.”
As the president of Quantum Funds and one of the main financial forces of Wall Street, Rogers had the qualifications to say something like that.
“What do you think we should do, Vincent?”
Vincent glanced at Rogers and replied, “This Jasper Laine from Somerland might have achieved extraordinary success according to our intelligence, but he’s still nothing in comparison to Quantum Funds, let alone strong enough to go against Wall Street.”
“There’s no entity in Somerland powerful enough to challenge Wall Street’s capital.”
“So I think we should do nothing.”
Rogers shook his head and replied, “No, Vincent. I’ve fought Jasper before, and he… the feeling he gives me is that we can’t look down on an opponent like him.”
Rogers’ words caused something to finally flicker across Vincent’s gentle expression.
One was the president of Quantum Funds and the other was the chief of the funds’ think tank. The two had been working intimately together for more than a decade, so they were both very familiar with the other’s character.
This was also why Vincent was so shocked about Rogers’s high regard for Jasper.
“From what I know, this is the highest praise you’ve ever given a youth.”
“Even Winston Benett admires him a lot, so it’s only natural that I don’t underestimate him.” Rogers clapped Vincent’s shoulder.
“My old friend, there’s a saying in Somerland that goes ‘Don’t overlook the young for their inexperience.’ This sentence teaches you not to underestimate an opponent just because they’re young and not as powerful as you. Because one day in the future, he might just become someone extremely formidable.”
“So, as the chief of Quantum Funds’ think tank, I need you to give me a more comprehensive evaluation and counter suggestion.”
Vincent put the glass down and got up to say, “I’ll need more information and intelligence on him.”
“I’ll grant you full authority.”
“Three days.”
“Okay.”
A similar situation was also happening in the investment banks Layman, as well as Colossal Investments.
The situation in Layman was similar to the one in Quantum Funds. While Colossal Investments was reacting differently because of their partnership with Jasper.
In Colossal Investment’s Terra regional branch headquarters, Harbor City.
Celine crossed her legs where she sat on the chair in the conference room.
In front of her was a huge electronic display, separated into six portions with a video feed playing out on each of them.
This was a managerial meeting of Colossal Investments’ headquarters and the large regional branches around the world.
Without question, this was an extremely high profile video conference.
At this moment, Celine voiced her opinion to the president
“President Paulson, I think the investment bank’s senior executives are overreacting to Jasper’s actions.”
Celine’s first sentence immediately had Paulson, the president of Colossal Investments, frowning slightly.
