At 18 Broadway in New York City, on the south side of Wall Street, there was another exclamation on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
The Seattle Trailblazer, which was originally favored by countless investors, fell below the issue price on the day of its listing.
The company's business was mainly to explore extraterrestrial planets and find habitable planets. Due to major breakthroughs in space telescope technology, it had always been favored by the industry to become the Columbus of the new century. Not long ago, the Noah's Ark Fund injected $200 million into the company. Today, the company went public, and such an incredible thing happened.
Although it was not unusual for the US stock market to break on the first day of listing, it was rare for the stock to fall by half on the first day of listing. Not to mention, it was a company that was previously favored by countless people.
What was even more incredible was that this was the second Silicon Valley aerospace company to have a hard landing in three days.
"God, you can't do this to me, I bet all my money on it!" A white man in a suit with bloodshot eyes squatted on the ground while holding his head in pain.
No one sympathized with him. Most of the people standing here at the moment were in the same despair.
The performance of the entire Nasdaq board was terrible. It was as if all companies related to the aerospace industry had been beaten back to their original state overnight.
The mood of many investors fell to the bottom along with the downward parabola.
Compared to those who bought stocks with their own money, many of the people standing here were professional managers working for investment banks and funds. There were even some Wall Street figures among them.
The expressions on their faces were solemn. They knew very well that the failure of investment meant the end of their career, which meant that their mansions might be confiscated by the bank, and they might not even be able to pay off their credit cards. As the hounds of capitalists, once they lost their sense of money, they would be useless.
It wasn't just Nasdaq.
The Dow Jones Index, known as the barometer of the US economy, was also faintly brewing a storm. Many people who had a premonition of what was going to happen had begun to reduce their holdings. For this kind of zero-sum game, once the reduction evolved into a collective behavior, it would be difficult to control it.
On the same street, not far from the New York Stock Exchange, inside the Morgan Stanley Building, Daniel Morgan was reading the newspaper in his hand with a gloomy face.
Without any warning, he suddenly crumpled the newspaper in his hand into a ball and slammed it into the corner of the office.
"50% defense tax? These shameless bandits! This is blatant robbery! "
When Celestial Trade recruited Hua, Russia, and Germany to form the Earth Defense Alliance, he didn't take it to heart. After all, without the participation of the world's largest economy, what could they do even if they could reach an agreement?
If the Earth Defense Alliance was really willing to stand on the front line selflessly, he would naturally welcome it with open arms. With the economic strength of four major countries and more than twenty small countries, if they wanted to shoulder the burden of the defense of the extraterrestrial civilization in one go and spend money on fortifications and warships without any return, they would not be able to bear it sooner or later.
At that time, Wall Street, which had a lot of money, would be able to take the fruits of their labor as their own.
With the introduction of the 50% defense tax, Morgan could no longer sit still.
Since the collapse of the Rothschild consortium, global mining giants such as Vale of Brazil and BHP have fallen into the predicament of capital chain rupture and were on the verge of bankruptcy. The sudden emergence of Future Mining almost swept one-third of the world's major commodity market. Through cheap and high-grade ores, it snatched away the market share that originally belonged to Vale of Brazil and BHP Group.
Especially the rare earth minerals produced on the Moon, Xin had already replaced Hua as the world's largest exporter of rare earth minerals.
It was no exaggeration to say that the 50% defense tax would cause a magnitude 7 earthquake in the global commodity market.
Of course, it was only for non-member countries.
Not only was Morgan shocked and angry, but the reaction of the Capital was also similar.
Hill's economic adviser saw the true intention of Celestial Trade at a glance.
They were using the space interests of other countries to transfuse blood into their own space industry! Of course, they couldn't swallow this fat piece of meat alone, so they also tied Hua and Russia to their chariot.
If it was the era of the space race, no matter how developed the space industry was, it would only boost national self- confidence. However, the profit prospects of the space industry were becoming more and more amazing, and even growing at a geometric rate, which forced the Capital to pay attention.
Silicon Valley and Seattle's aerospace industrial parks had exceeded 1 trillion US Dollar. If they were kicked off the space elevator at this time, it would undoubtedly be a heavy loss for the UA.
"The risk of an economic crisis has already appeared. It may not be obvious in the short term, but if this defense tax exists for a long time, the gap between us and them in the aerospace field will become bigger and bigger. We have to do something before it's too late! "
"I propose that economic sanctions be imposed on Xin for suspected trade protectionism!"
At the regular meeting of the Congress, a member stood up and said fiercely.
Economic sanctions were two completely different concepts from antitrust investigations. If the latter was an assault rifle, then the former was a map cannon. Based on the market size of both sides, the interests of both sides would be seriously damaged. It was just a matter of who could hold on first.
In the exploitation of the Third World, the economic sanctions of the UA were always successful. Using poverty to force the sanctioned party to compromise, they had been playing this trick since the Cold War era.
However, this time, there was a rare lack of reaction in the Congress, and there were even different voices.
"Now our top priority is to negotiate with Celestial Trade and minimize the impact of the defense tax on the UA aerospace industry, rather than let the conflict further escalate and spread to other fields." A Republican member stood up and raised an objection.
The voice of opposition was not the only one. Soon, another councilman stood up.
"I second it. If it eventually turns into a trade war, I believe we can win in many fields, but we will definitely lose badly in the field of high technology. Especially the virtual reality network, no modern country can leave the virtual reality network. We simply can't afford this loss. "
"In addition, there is a very critical point." As the member spoke, he glanced around at the other members in the room and said helplessly, "Sanctioning the Earth Defense Alliance at this time is not something we can stand on. Before the meeting began, I paid attention to the official website of the Capital. The application for the Capital to join the Earth Defense Alliance has exceeded 70 million people, of which 20 million votes are from North America … "
The members looked at each other.
What they were most worried about finally happened.
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