I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1161: This brilliant firework of wealth (2)
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After reading a column of more than ten pages, Eric chatted with Chris on the phone for half an hour. Hanging up the phone, sitting in front of the computer to consider the problems that may face in the next period of time, there was a knock on the door.
Looking up, Cindy stood at the door and looked at his expression, concerned: "Eric, what happened?"
Eric leaned back on the leather chair and spread her hands towards Cindy. The woman came in and leaned back in his arms with a smile.
Gently stroking Cindy ’s slightly raised abdomen, Eric chin knocked on her shoulders and felt a seductive scent of women, saying: "Why do n’t you take some rest?"
"It's already eight o'clock," Cindy pulled his face and posted a side profile of Eric, saying: "Breakfast is ready."
Eric just looked at the time in the lower right corner of the computer monitor, but did not get up, said: "Let Linda live here during this time, she can still take care of you."
"Well, she has actually moved over," Cindy nodded, took the initiative to get up and pulled up Eric, said: "Let ’s go to dinner first, I still have work in the morning."
Eric opened his mouth, but did not continue to persuade Cindy to stop working. Anyway, the recording of the new season "America's Next Top Model" will be completed next month. At that time, Cindy can just stop to take maternity leave until the end of the year.
Simply wash, Eric and Cindy came to the restaurant together, and only a light pink long T-shirt with two long legs exposed Linda was setting breakfast. Seeing Eric and Cindy coming in, I did not forget to glance at Eric because of last night's things, and thoughtfully helped Cindy to open a chair.
Eric sat down at the dining table, just picked up the tableware, and remembered another thing, for the two women: "I will go to Australia in early August, the executive meeting of the Firefly system is going to be held there this year, you want one Get up? "
"Australia is winter now?" Linda shook his head immediately: "I don't want to go, I'm afraid of cold."
Cindy immediately remembered that Virginia and they are still in Australia. Eric arranged the party over there. There must be a reason for this. At this point, the man said that he would take them both, apparently intending to push them to the stage.
If you can confirm your identity in front of the core executives of the Firefly system, it will be of great benefit to herself and the children in her womb. However, after hesitating for a moment, Cindy also shook his head: "It is still consider as finished, I am not suitable for making airplanes now, and several projects in Linda and I have been working on recently, and can not go away."
Eric nodded: "Then consider as finished, I will talk about it next time."
Linda reacted at this time. She heard that Cindy decided not to go, she was not good to speak again, but she secretly touched her flat abdomen, and there was a little bit more grudge in her eyes.
After having breakfast, Eric first sent Cindy and Linda to Production Studio to work, and then he hurried to Firefly to invest in Headquarters.
It ’s past nine o’clock. Eric came to the office area of Building 50 of Rockefeller Center of Firefly Investment Company. Under the guidance of the staff, it directly pushed the door into a conference room and found that Chris was leaning alone. Next to meeting table, staring at a wall-mounted TV on the wall.
When Eric arrived, Chris nodded and greeted, then immediately pointed to the TV screen.
Eric has now recognized the TV screen as a figure of a middle-aged judge he had seen in the video a few days ago.
Come to Chris and lean beside him next to meeting table. Thomas · Jackson on the screen is being interviewed by CNN and showing the host a few pages of documents: "... After collecting evidence during this period, we can already It is 100% sure that Microsoft has a very serious monopoly. In my opinion, only by splitting Microsoft and implementing stricter regulations can this company be prevented from further hindering normal competition in the industry ... "
Listening to the chatter between the middle-aged judge and the CNN host, Eric raised his hand and looked at the watch. It was already 9:15, which was only 15 minutes from the opening of the NASDAQ.
Chris noticed the action of Eric and said: "It is too late now, even if some people react, it is impossible to make an effective response."
Eric nodded in recognition and understood the meaning of Chris.
According to some statistical data over the weekend, the cumulative short position of the Nasdaq index in trading markets around the world is conservatively estimated to be no lower than 60billion USD. Such a large-scale capital force is hard to beat. The stock market of any country in global is difficult. bear.
However, the current total market value of NASDAQ stocks has reached 7.9 trillion USD. Investors will naturally not want such a huge amount of wealth to disappear with the collapse of the stock market. Therefore, if the layout of short-selling forces can be expected in advance, an effective counterattack can certainly be made.
It's just that too many people are immersed in the joy that the Nasdaq index has just broken through 5000 points, and they have not been sufficiently alert to the trend of the theory in recent days.
Eric anticipated these in advance, but the Firefly system did not have any plans to make a head bird, not to mention the lack of such strength. The collapse of the Nasdaq index, which has reached its apex, is already an inevitable thing. Going against the trend will only be crushed to the bone.
Eric and Chris were calmly watching the situation in the conference room of Firefly investment company expression, but for the securities industry, this is not destined to be a calm day.
With the Microsoft antitrust case trial judge Thomas · Jackson's remarks in an interview with CNN quickly spread, coupled with a series of comments and comments on the decline in the weekend, whether it is a premeditated or a premonition of a crisis, distributed People from North America and even global stocks around Manager clearly found that today they received significantly more orders to sell technology stocks than before.
Finally, at 9:30 am, the Nasdaq index just opened, and a one-off stock sell-off of more than 1billion USD directly knocked down Microsoft's share price by more than 3 percentage points.
But this is far from over. In the ensuing hour, almost all major technology stocks such as Yahoo, Cisco, Intel, Amazon on the Nasdaq stock market ushered in huge sell-offs.
After the demand for technology stocks in the market, which is far from being able to hedge the size of the sell-off, was quickly offset, large stock sell-offs began to squeeze, continuing to lower the stock prices of major technology stocks.
So, panic began to spread.
More investors who got the news started to join the sell-off and quickly formed a terrible domino effect.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Eastern Time, the Nasdaq finally closed at 4960 points, a decline of 1.9%. However, a series of mainstream technology stocks that have been sold for a large amount have suffered heavy losses.
Microsoft stock price fell 8.3% in a single day.
The share price of Cisco fell by 5.6% in a single day.
Yahoo stock price fell 6.5% in a single day.
The share price of Intel fell by 5.9%.
Amazon stock price fell 9.6% in a single day.
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It's just that the decline in the number of 10 billion USD behind the series represents only a beginning.
At the same time, in the face of a gloomy NASDAQ market, Wall Street once again fully reflects its unruly side.
Last week, they also vigorously advocated that Nasdaq will hit a new high and hit the 6000-point mark. Analysts from major investment banks have changed their tone at this time, almost depreciating the investment value of technology stocks.
In the following four trading days, the Nasdaq index fell more than 100 points every day due to the further fermentation of the chain reaction caused by the stock market crash.
Although from the federal government down to various new technology companies have tried various means to stabilize the Nasdaq index, but the results have little effect.
Because a large number of investors in the last crazy period of the Nasdaq, in order to maximize profits, they are unscrupulously using investment leverage. This also greatly reduces the ability of these investors to resist risks.
In general, the investment leverage of about five to ten times, so that investors can only withstand a decline of about 10% to 20% of a particular stock.
But in fact, many stocks tend to fall by more than 10% within a day.
As the situation continues to deteriorate, whether to sell stocks or not can no longer be decided by investors. In order to avoid losses that are too unbearable for them, many financing institutions that provide capital guarantees for leveraged investors have to forcibly close the stocks in the hands of customers. A large number of sell orders went to the market, further causing a vicious cycle of stock price decline.
On July 23, the nightmarish week of the new technology market finally ended. The Nasdaq index closed at 4373 points. Compared with the peak of 5056 points last week, the decline reached 13.5%, exceeding the wealth of 1 trillion USD. The smoke disappeared.
A series of leading technology stocks that led the Nasdaq market in the early period have generally fallen more than the entire Nasdaq market.
Due to the comments of Thomas · Jackson on Monday, the final decline of Microsoft stock price in five days has reached 22.7%, and the market value has slid straight from the highest point of more than 600billion USD to 469900 million USD.
The Cisco, which has just taken the top spot in the market value of global, has seen its stock price drop by 25.9% in one week, and its market value has dropped to 453.1 billion USD.
The Yahoo, which Eric has been most concerned about, also fell 16.5% in five days, but this is within the tolerance range of Eric, and the company's market value still remains above 200billion USD, reaching 215500 million USD.
The shares of other Amazon, Sprint, Qualcomm and other companies in the Firefly system have not been spared, and all have experienced varying degrees of decline.
Compared to the fact that Nokia, which is listed on multiple stock exchanges such as North America and Europe, is affected minimally by the Nasdaq crash, coupled with its solid performance support, when it closed on Friday, the stock price was only 3.9% fell.
In the evening, Bill · Gates rushed to Manhattan for a whole week because of the position of Thomas · Jackson on Monday, and hurried to the penthouse of Eric at the entrance of Sixth Avenue.
When I saw the figure sitting relaxedly beside the seat of the rooftop open-air garden, drinking coffee while looking at newspaper, my Bill · Gates felt depressed.
Due to the success of Microsoft, he should have been one of the most proud people in the world with huge wealth, but in front of this young man, Bill · Gates is always difficult to find a sense of superiority.
Sit down on a chair without any politeness, Bill · Gates glanced at newspaper in the hands of Eric and said, "Eric, you better give a reason that will satisfy me."
Eric put the newspaper in front of it, poured a cup of coffee to the door classmates, pointed to the Hudson River in the distance, and smiled: "Suddenly felt that there should be a firework recently, so I bought it. A boat starts at eight o'clock. "
Bill · Gates did n’t touch the coffee in front of him, subconsciously helped his glasses, said: "Eric, don't you think it is boring?"
"Okay," Eric put away his expression, but apparently still looks helpless. He said: "We are talking about business, the situation is very bad now, Yahoo needs some good news, Microsoft is the same, so, we What kind of cooperation? "
Bill · Gates showed a look of contempt: "And then?"
Eric handed a folder to Bill · Gates, and opened the laptop next to it, saying: "I have made a contract. But let ’s take a look at this first, you will definitely be interested, um, some Long, let ’s just look directly from here. "
Eric said, adjusted the progress bar, turned the laptop screen to the door classmates, and then pressed the play button.
A familiar sound of Bill · Gates was immediately heard from the speaker.
"Publishing this kind of out-of-court trial before the public is a serious violation of the judicial process, which is likely to ruin my career. So, 2 million USD is simply not enough, if you succeed, you need to pay me again 3 million USD. "
"Thomas, you are too greedy, 2 million USD is already a huge sum of money."
"Do n’t think I do n’t understand this, Dean, according to your short size, if the Nasdaq crashes, you can earn at least a few 1 billion USD. So, this is not negotiable."
There was a moment of silence in the video before another voice sounded again: "Well, I promise you."
Eric looked at the opposite eyeball of Bill · Gates, and reached for Pā to close the laptop and picked it up to take it back.
Bill · Gates, like being awakened from sleep, suddenly raised his head, glared hard at Eric, then blinked and realized that he was in a situation now, put away his expression and said, "Eric, you are doing it illegal . "
Eric pointed to the doorway and shrugged: "If you are not interested, then help yourself."
Bill · Gates swallowed a slobber, and froze with Eric for a moment, but still picked up the folder he had just handed over and opened it.
Turn it over in a hurry, Bill · Gates quickly put down and said: "It is okay to give up that share subscription contract. But Yahoo Browser continues to enjoy the original status on the Microsoft platform, which is simply impossible." >
"I haven't thought about such a good thing," Eric said: "You must not have looked carefully, Yahoo can pay Microsoft 1 USD pre-installed cost for each operating system."
"But this is only equivalent to less than the cost of 50 million USD per year, Eric, if it is you, are you willing?"
"Of course I don't want to," Eric patted the laptop in front of him: "So, this is Yahoo's compensation for Microsoft."
"This video does not necessarily help Microsoft," Bill · Gates pretended to be disdainful: "Once exposed, it may even be counterproductive."
"So, so far, the people who have watched this video plus you have just got together," Eric said: "I have been thinking about this problem recently, standing in our position, often It ’s hard to do things as often as you want. Too often, we have to make compromises. Like this video, my first first thought was to expose it, and then stand by and watch the excitement. But then I found out If it is not exposed, it seems that it can bring some benefits. Of course, this is for Microsoft. Firefly is not available for this thing. "
Bill · Gates narrowed its eyes: "Eric, are you suggesting that I am threatening the Ministry of Justice?"
“It ’s just negotiation,” Eric shrugged: “Microsoft is now a victim, even a persecuted one. So, even President has to make compromises for this. You know, Clinton ca n’t do anything anymore now. It can withstand another political storm. But now the situation is that a middle-aged judge has caused the collapse of the entire Nasdaq market for his own self-interest. The wealth of trillions of USD has disappeared like a firework. I heard that this week there have been investors who jumped because of bankruptcy. Then, once the scandal in the video is exposed, Thomas · Jackson will definitely become the target, but the Clinton government that has always strongly advocated investigating Microsoft can never be left out. The second impeachment occurred, but countless angry investors who suffered heavy losses in the stock market crash were also enough to end the Clintons ’political career, which is precisely the two of them most afraid of happening."