Rebirth of England.

Chapter 1013 Finale 1:2015

After Barron returned to London, he celebrated his 35th birthday.

On October 10, the day after his birthday, it had been three months since Alibaba went public.

However, according to the 90-day lock-up period, on October 10, the day before Barron’s birthday, the Alibaba shares held by DS Holdings (Cavendish Trust) were already able to be sold publicly in the secondary market.

Of course, according to relevant regulations in the United States, major shareholders need to disclose the situation when reducing their holdings, which will naturally have a certain impact on the stock price.

Since Alibaba went public, its stock price has generally been on an upward trend and is currently around US$105.

Because the 18th and 19th were weekends, on October 10th, Alibaba announced that its major shareholder DS Holdings' shareholdings would be unblocked and that it would partially sell off its holdings.

In response, a spokesperson for DS Holdings stated that in accordance with Alibaba's instructions when it went public and the agreement between them and Alibaba's management, they would complete the sale of approximately 29298 million Alibaba shares out of a total of approximately 23142 million shares they hold within one year from now.

The purpose is to enable more investors to participate in investing in Alibaba, an e-commerce giant that occupies a leading position in China and has great development potential.

And their share reduction will follow the "slow walking" principle, and it is expected that only less than 15% of the total share capital will be sold in the next 1 trading days.

Alibaba's stock price fell only slightly after these announcements, but soon recovered due to their excellent revenue performance.

Then, on November 11, Alibaba’s stock price rose sharply, driven by the news that the company had set a sales record of 14 billion yuan in the just-concluded Double Eleven Shopping Festival.

During the trading session on the 14th, its stock price reached a high of nearly US$120!

On Monday, November 11, DS Holdings disclosed to the public that they had sold 18% of Alibaba shares.

By Christmas, DS Holdings had sold approximately 29298 million of its 23142 million Alibaba shares and will not sell any more shares in the short term.

This time, DS Holdings sold a total of approximately 23142 million shares of Alibaba, with an average selling price of around US$112.45, and received a total of approximately US$260 billion.

"The U.S. stock market will continue to rise next year as the economy recovers, so our funds will continue to be used to invest in the U.S. stock market..."

Of course, in addition to this purpose, Barron is also preparing to use the proceeds from these investments to enable DS Holdings to complete the overall acquisition of BFT Fund in a few years.

In this way, they obtained the shares held by the BFT Fund, including Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo, and avoided a large amount of capital gains tax.

In addition, the acquired funds can be exchanged for pounds when the exchange rate between the pound and the dollar is low and returned to the British government.

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2015, April 3.

Kolo held its fourth general election since the establishment of the new government. Thomas Kaboré, who led Kolo to rapid development in his previous term, was successfully re-elected and will start his second term.

In the new government formed by Thomas Kaboré, Hector Pate, president of the United Bank for Africa, who had just completed his term, was nominated as the finance minister of Kolo; while Roman House, deputy director of the Kolo Development and Reform Research Center, was appointed as the foreign minister...

According to statistics, five people in Thomas Kaboré's new government once worked in the West African Group and related institutions.

On March 3, the Cologne Corps announced that it would order 25 EF12 (Typhoon) fighter jets from the British BAE Systems, as well as a series of mounted missiles and weapons including Storm Shadow. The total value of this order will exceed 2000 billion euros.

On April 4, the heads of the member states of the West African Free Trade Organization held a meeting in Blita, the capital of Colo. The member states of the West African Free Trade Organization, including Colo, Ghana, Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger, decided to form a joint anti-terrorism force to launch a joint strike against anti-government forces and terrorists in the West African Free Trade Zone. They named this joint anti-terrorism operation "West Africa Peace Mission 2."

In this anti-terrorism operation, the West African Joint Counter-Terrorism Force made extensive use of a variety of drones to conduct reconnaissance and air strikes on anti-government forces and terrorists. With their help, this operation was very successful. In the following two years, the West African Joint Counter-Terrorism Force basically eliminated the unstable factors within the West African Free Trade Area.

It also makes the West African Joint Counter-Terrorism Force the most combat-effective force in West Africa and even in Africa.

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On May 5, Britain held a general election for the House of Commons, and the Conservative Party led by Cameron was successfully re-elected. Cameron formed the Conservative Party’s first majority government in 7 years.

The government formed by Cameron, except for some adjustments in individual positions, basically still has the same personnel as the cabinet reshuffled in July last year. In particular, there has been no change in important core members such as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, and Home Secretary.

After winning the general election, Cameron said that in accordance with his previous promise, Britain will hold a Brexit referendum before 2017.

"It looks like the Brexit referendum will most likely be next year..."

"Yes, you have to be ready."

"what do you mean?"

Facing Joe Harriman's doubts, Barron just smiled and said lightly:

"If the result of the referendum is that Britain leaves the EU, then Cameron will have no choice but to resign."

"Will it really be like that? Maybe it will be like the Scottish independence referendum last year..."

But soon, Joe Harriman understood why Barron said that.

If refugees from the Middle East had been entering Europe as illegal immigrants before, then starting in 2015, the situation began to take a sharp turn for the worse...

In the first half of 2015, a large number of refugees entered Europe from the Middle East and North Africa through the Mediterranean and the Balkans in search of asylum.

At the same time, because the EU and Turkey have not been able to reach an agreement in negotiations, Turkey has allowed refugees to cross the border, and even its domestic "snakeheads" have made money from this...

According to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration, as of November 2015, 11, the total number of refugees and migrants traveling to Europe via the Mediterranean and land routes has exceeded one million!

In particular, after German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the opening of the border to refugees on September 2015, 9, this decision directly led to a large number of asylum seekers entering Germany from the Austrian border.

More than a million asylum seekers entered Germany between 2015 and 2016, leading to serious divisions within the European Union over how to deal with refugees.

Although the EU has tried to share the burden through a refugee distribution plan, Eastern and Western European countries have different opinions on this, and some countries, such as Hungary, are even opposed to the forced sharing of refugees - the British people are also opposed to accepting refugees.

Some European countries have taken measures to block borders and tighten refugee policies, resulting in a large number of refugees being trapped in border areas, triggering humanitarian crises and social conflicts.

The refugee crisis has put tremendous pressure on European society and economy, increased the economic burden on European countries, and triggered xenophobia and social instability. At the same time, the refugee issue has exposed loopholes in the EU's internal system and mechanism for accepting refugees, posing a challenge to the European integration process.

That is, in 2015, when the most serious refugee crisis Europe has faced since World War II began, Euroscepticism in Britain has risen sharply.