The Fūtián Group, once the world's largest automobile manufacturing conglomerate with annual revenue exceeding two hundred billion dollars, finally came crashing down.
Yet throughout the process, Chen Mo made a fortune.
As early as the launch of the S.H.I.E.L.D. SUV, Chen Mo had ordered J.A.R.V.I.S. to begin shorting Fūtián Group stock. With the S.H.I.E.L.D. Group bringing in money by the day, Chen Mo controlled an astonishing amount of capital—more than enough to acquire over half of Fūtián Group's shares. Moreover, no one had expected the massive and powerful Fūtián Group to collapse so quickly, so there were not many people following suit and shorting its stock.
More people believed that Fūtián Group could safely weather this crisis and that its share price would eventually return to normal, especially the people of Japan.
The Fūtián Group had always been a source of pride for the Japanese people. Its strength ranked among the very best in Japan, and this incident had not had much impact on Japan itself. No one believed that the Fūtián Group would fall so easily.
Therefore, when Fūtián Group's stock price plummeted and Chen Mo shorted it aggressively, many financial institutions and individuals still tried to buy the dip. Needless to say, their final outcome was disastrous.
Chen Mo's gains did not end there. Not only had he nearly drained the Fūtián Group's market value in the stock market and raked in over a hundred billion dollars, but the blade he had used to strike at Fūtián Group—the S.H.I.E.L.D. SUV itself—had also brought him enormous profits.
Although the S.H.I.E.L.D. SUV cost only a fraction of the price of the three supercars, its relatively lower price meant it targeted a much larger customer base. Its sales were more than a hundred times those of the three supercars.
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