The Goddess Shines on America

In the early morning of the second day, when Jordan Belfort got up, he rushed to the newsstand.

The peak period for office work is also the peak period for office workers to buy newspapers. Jordan lives in a low-income apartment not far from Wall Street, so many office workers around are also stock brokers. When he rushed to the station non-stop, sure enough, many people even forgot to take the bus, but patronized and stared at the newspaper in their hands.

Jordan immediately came up with a copy of The Wall Street Journal. He swore with his surviving parents that he knew what the main news of the day was in his dreams.

Sure enough, a blockbuster news was published on the homepage.

"On the first day of listing, there was a surge of US$60 million, and the rise of Microsoft Corporation was rapid! 》

"Good guy, sixty million dollars!?"

Jordan shouted on the spot: "Microsoft's initial assets are also two million, right? Twenty times the increase, which is really amazing!"

"Be quiet, rookie."

A middle-aged man waiting for the bus looked at him dissatisfiedly. He was dressed in a suit and leather shoes and he was also a stockbroker: “What’s so strange about the appreciation of twenty times after listing? The key is to look at the future development. It was suppressed by IBM, HP, or Dell. Believe it or not that the stock price can fall by five dollars?"

Jordan sneered and continued to stare at the newspaper.

"Because of the stock market crash the day before yesterday, the Nasdaq index plummeted by 30 points, dozens of stocks ● long ● wind ● Wen ● learning, ww⊙w.cfw↑xn≦et, and Microsoft’s stocks are gathering. In the bidding stage, almost no one paid any attention, and the opening price was forced to plummet from the issue price of 21 yuan to a miserable level of eight cents. But when a huge bid of US$100,000 was invested, the major brokerages followed suit. This avoids the possibility that Microsoft stocks may encounter Waterloo at the opening..."

"...The highest price at the time was $32. As of the close, the final amount was as high as $29.90, an increase of 39% from the issue price."

These are all news that Jordan already knew. He even knew that the incredible bid of 100,000 yuan was thrown out by himself. He also knows that if he tells this story, almost every investment bank has to treat him as a VIP employee!

After all, no one can predict the future, and no stockbroker will really know the direction of the stock market. With the appearance of call auctions that no one cares about, Microsoft’s first day of listing is likely to be a tragic situation, not to mention the return to the issue price, it’s not bad to be able to rise to five dollars!

But he took advantage of this opportunity to buy it at a very low price of eight cents, allowing Cameron's famous celebrity customer to make a huge book fund of 40 million with 100,000 yuan overnight!

"Wait, a difference of four hundred times..."

Actually, I was thinking about it last night, but looking at the Wall Street Journal at the moment, Jordan instinctively felt something wrong.

Speaking of it, why didn't Microsoft's stock be interested in the early days?

Companies that can go public are not bad, Microsoft even took a lot of money with the Windows 1.0 craze last year. At the end of last year, the cooperation with IBM was published in the newspaper, and there was even publicity saying that it would not be long. Will launch Windows2.0 system. It stands to reason that it should not be so bleak anyway.

Moreover, a questionnaire issued by Microsoft not long ago proved that many people are looking forward to its stock.

"A competitor suppresses?"

Jordan immediately guessed the possibility. Generally speaking, the suppression of the stock market is the influx of funds, and the opening spine is forced down during the call auction stage before the market opens. But this is not the case at Microsoft now. When I think of it...

"IBM must have contacted major brokerage firms secretly."

It's still early morning, but it's the West Coast, Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. There is an executive meeting in the conference room. When it comes to listing, Alice certainly attended, but the company only went public yesterday after all, so it was impossible to convene all the major shareholders.

"Goldman Sachs, *******, Citigroup, etc., as long as these large-scale brokerages and banks do not make a move, other small investment companies naturally dare not act rashly."

Gates presided over the meeting and said to everyone: "Although the Nasdaq stocks are not comparable to the blue-chip stocks of the New York Stock Exchange, they are not comparable to the pink penny stocks. But it is precisely because we are not weak in Microsoft. When those big investors don’t make a move, other institutions, no matter how big or small, dare not move. They will wonder if this is a problem within Microsoft."

"It seems that IBM does not spend less money."

Paul Allen chuckled softly: "It won't do to allow major banks to give up the proceeds of a new stock listing. They don't pay tens of millions of dollars one by one. It turned out to be a good one, and the deal lost~"

There was a burst of relaxed laughter from the people. Right after the market closed yesterday, their brokerage agency had already sent the information. The $100,000 bid in the call auction stage was invested by James Cameron, which was a life-saving money. After that, although Citigroup and ******** did not make a move, many large, medium and small investment institutions, led by Morgan Stanley, Rothschild, and Goldman Sachs, have rushed to Microsoft frantically. From eight cents to 32 dollars, this is a pretty crazy deal!

"Alice, what do you think?"

Gates suddenly discovered that throughout the meeting, Alice barely said a word: "You have been silent for a long time."

Everyone looked at the girl with admiration. No matter it was the development and follow-up of Windows 1.0, or the performance in the process of cooperation with IBM, the talent that Alice showed was simply terrifying like a robot. Gates, Ballmer and others joked more than once, saying that Alice’s brain is a computer, right?

"IBM must be tricky."

Alice spoke up: "The people are very much looking forward to our listing, otherwise PricewaterhouseCoopers will not make an issue price of 21 US dollars. But no one cares about the bidding, it is because IBM bought the major banks. , This is so nonsense, there must be other reasons."

The same sentence, spoken by different people, has different effects.

Gates's face changed slightly: "You mean..."

Alice blew a whistle: "As early as half a year ago, IBM and Nasdaq exchanges bought Cisco routers separately. Big Blue is a veteran computer player. Those on the exchange are still using DOS systems. Old antiques..."

The words did not continue, but this sentence was enough to make the faces of all the participants darken.

The excitement of going public has plunged all the company's staff into a carnival. The celebration party just ended last night. Therefore, almost everyone did not think too much about the situation at the time, but now according to Alice's analysis...

Gates frowned vigorously.

At the same moment, when Microsoft on the West Coast held its morning meeting, many companies on Wall Street on the East Coast were still busy.

In fact, all stock market practitioners work almost 24 hours a day. The opening time is when they work hardest, and if their business involves European stocks, Japanese stocks, Hong Kong stocks and other global stocks instead of only US stocks, these people will be busy almost all day when they just open the market.

Even in the non-opening period, analyze data, follow the news, use fundamental analysis to determine stock market prices, and produce various report data... It’s no wonder that bank brokers will occupy a skyscraper in the city’s financial district. They are really needed employees. The number is really too much.

"List of managers..."

At this moment, in the securities analysis department of Goldman Sachs Bank, financial analyst Milan is looking at Microsoft's relevant information and muttering: "The second largest shareholder, Alice King, owns 30% of the shares, and then Paul Allen owns 27% share... Am I wrong?"

"You read that right."

His colleague, Tom sitting at the desk next door, said: "The official time for the shareholding was July 1984, and then not long after, when Windows 1.0 was released, it seemed that this was a technology shareholding act. However, This Alice..."

Tom looked strangely at the corner of his table, where there was a copy of "Jurassic Park."

Milan was also muttering: "Alice is a very common name, and Wang is also a common Chinese surname, but put them together... At the same time two girls with the same name and the same surname popped up in the IT industry and the entertainment industry, Tom, this What is the probability?"

Tom really lowered his head to calculate. As a high-achieving student from Harvard Business School, his undergraduate major was mathematics. Calculus, statistics, matrix delineation, he really lowered his head to calculate this probability...

No matter how suspicion is in the individual's mind, when the time is up, the relevant agencies will publish the information of the listed company. If we say that even before Microsoft went public, many people did not pay attention to the composition of its executives, but when the "Wall Street Journal" news of Microsoft's daily revenue of 60 million was released, countless media finally couldn't sit still!

On the fifth day of Microsoft’s listing, the stock price continued to remain high, while the amount of money continued to flow in. At the same time, major, medium and small newspapers had turned passion into action, and eye-catching news headlines had begun to be printed in pieces. come out.

"Microsoft's listing of 100 million yuan in funds ~ www.readwn.com ~ the incarnation of a literary girl into a super rich! ? 》

"The stocks that no one cares about at the opening price have created the billionaire dream of a middle school girl! ? 》

"Is it coincidence or inevitable, the same name or the same person? Alice and King, a magical combination! 》

This is a country with a free press. No one can stop the desire of journalists to write about it. If necessary, even if it is necessary, you can face and scold the president directly. Although until the fifth day of listing, the mysterious second shareholder did not intend to appear in front of the media, but this does not mean that small and medium-sized media dare not use vague words to make sales.

Then, on the seventh day after the listing, Microsoft officially announced that it will hold a press conference outside the Microsoft headquarters building in Redmond on Wednesday, March 12.

For a time, almost everyone in the financial media magazines was boiling. The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time Weekly, and even the overseas Times, all of them ordered to arrive in Seattle before the 12th. Ticket.

The large number of people made the tickets of many flights out of stock instantly! (To be continued.)