A Love Story in San Francisco

Chapter 9: Smooth Sailing

As soon as Lucas arrived at the office on Monday, he began to concentrate and work on his trades in earnest.

James had sent him instructions to buy $5 million of UBER stock at the same time to cover his tracks, $5 million of Chinese bike share equity in the primary market, and finally an offer to buy 10% of TITI from the A Family Trust, which was the other trust scheme managed by Alongso, which had quickly sent an offer that was significantly higher than the market expected.

‘No, that was well above the market offer.’ Lucas replied.

‘What about the price in mind?’ A Family Trust replies.

‘$80 per share for a total of 1 million shares.’ Lucas replies.

After several rounds of hypocritically bargain between them, the final price is positioned at $85 per share. As the trading market is relatively opaque before a company goes public for trading, outsiders can only learn the true value of the stake through a handful of transactions.

‘Even if this price is immediately known by the B family, it won't be noticed right away.’ Lucas consoled himself.

After completing this transaction, Lucas's operations for this asset management product ended for the time being, and generally speaking for this kind of long term funding, it may be a few months before a small scale position is adjusted.

Other colleagues in the study of macroeconomics, market trends, he has already begun to think about this weekend to go there again to party.

‘There are just so many places to go in San Francisco, before when I was in college all I went to was the student spending level, now we can go as far as we want.’ Lucas thought to himself.

Too late, a text message came to his phone from Alongso, ‘Let's go to Vegas Friday night, don't bring Emma.’

Just as Lucas was trying to talk to Emma about the weekend's activities, Emma called:

‘Lucas, I'm going to prepare to go to Africa this weekend, you know, I've been in the company for so long, I finally have a chance to go and see the project we implemented in Africa, before preparing 10 million US dollars, which can be used to drill 500-800 wells as well as the supporting equipment in several countries in Africa that lack potable water, the company sends me to Ethiopia for a month, and when I come back I'll have more experience to attract donations.’

Emma blurted out so excitedly before Lucas could speak.

‘But have you got your passport, and your vaccinations?’ Lucas was worried about the mosquitoes in Africa, which were rumoured to be deadly if you got a bite.

‘I nearly had all of them before, and when I go for a malaria vaccine tomorrow, it'll be enough. Passport, visa is ready a long time ago’

‘As an organisation that spreads money in Africa, we used to have no problem with these.’ Emma replied confidently.

‘What about security, who do you have protecting you?’ Lucas was still unsure.

‘There's a small team from the UN that will take us, and there's no war in any of the villages we're going to.’ Emma reassured Lucas.

‘Okay, then you have to be ever so careful and call me every day okay?’ Lucas compromised, he also didn't want to dampen Emma's excitement of going to Africa.

As soon as the words left his mouth, Jamse informed Lucas that he had already applied to manpower, as long as he passed this month, wait until the board meeting at the beginning of next month to give Lucas a promotion from Analyst to Associate.Lucas said thank you a few times in a row, he knew that maybe James was more thankful to him because the additional size of half a billion dollars had made James a leap to become the Highstreet inside the highest asset size of the VP, which makes him in front of the board of directors have more confidence, just Monday's regular meeting, James glowing, all the directors look at him is also full of respect, the financial circle is really still look at the results, look at the figures.