Chapter 297 This company name is unlucky
Lu Yiming listened carefully to Wei Liqun's report, then rubbed his temple with the middle finger of his left hand.
To be honest, these 2 billion yuan were all raised from the local people of Hong Kong. Even if they were all lost, Lu Yiming would not be hurt at all.
But since he took other people's money, Lu Yiming still had to do his job conscientiously. After all, if he made money, he would get the lion's share.
After rubbing his temples, Lu Yiming sat up straight and tapped the table rhythmically with a few fingers of his left hand.
"You are also an experienced employee. Please tell me your opinion first."
Wei Liqun thought about it and finally told the truth: "I think there are risks. After all, the United States is too far away from Hong Kong. We have no idea what the situation is over there. But this is indeed an opportunity. After all, we are now investing in a giant US energy company. Such opportunities don't come often."
Lu Yiming smiled and nodded in agreement with Wei Liqun: "Indeed, you are right about this point, so I choose to refuse."
"Ah? Rejection!"
Although Wei Liqun had thought about this possibility before, he was still caught off guard by Lu Yiming's quick decision.
After all, this investment project was found by Wei Liqun and his team with great difficulty. Although there are considerable risks involved, after everyone's discussion, Wei Liqun still feels that it is very worthwhile to invest.
So he immediately persuaded, "Boss, do you really want to refuse? This is a giant American energy company with total assets of more than 40 billion US dollars and a turnover that is about to exceed 100 billion! If one of the shareholders hadn't suddenly wanted to sell his shares due to debt problems, we would have no chance at all."
Lu Yiming sighed and said with emotion: "Although we are businessmen, businessmen are businessmen, but in many cases, we still have to consider other factors comprehensively. Lao Wei, think about it, why would the other party sell such a good stock? And selling it would be fine, why did the opportunity fall on our Future Fund, a financial company from Hong Kong?"
“Ah… this…”
Wei Liqun was speechless for a moment.
He simply analyzed the situation from a business perspective and thought it was a project worth starting. However, Lu Yiming did not talk to him about business, but instead provided ideas from another perspective.
"Boss, do you think there is something wrong here?"
Lu Yiming did not answer Wei Liqun's question, but asked: "What is the name of this company?"
Wei Liqun held the information in his hand. He knew that his boss didn't like employees speaking English in his company, so he said carefully: "Um, the phonetic translation seems to be 'Enron'."
Lu Yiming was startled.
No wonder they were selling off their stocks and no one came to grab them, it turned out to be that Enron!
As an Internet company practitioner, Lu Yiming is very familiar with the Enron incident !
However, Lu Yiming couldn't tell Wei Liqun about what would happen , so he had to find an excuse to say, "Look, doesn't the name 'An Ran' sound unlucky?"
“…”
Wei Liqun never expected that Lu Yiming's angle could be so tricky, and he was dumbfounded.
"so?"
"So we can't invest in this company. When it comes to business, what matters is a good start. They can invest in whoever they want. Our Future Fund will not get involved."
"Good guy...Okay, I get it."
At the Future Fund headquarters, Meng Xiujie and Xie Xingwang looked at Wei Liqun eagerly. After he hung up the phone, they asked impatiently, "Boss Wei, what did the boss say?"
Wei Liqun remembered Lu Yiming's ridiculous reason, shook his head slightly and said, "The boss rejected our proposal."
Meng Xiujie and Xie Xingwang immediately became anxious. For this project, they spent a lot of time and energy collecting information and analyzing market conditions. They also wanted to make a big bonus from it.
"Boss Wei, why doesn't the boss agree?"
"Yeah, is it because our information is not complete enough?"
Seeing Meng Xiujie and Xie Xingwang were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, Wei Liqun said helplessly: "It's useless for you to say these things. The main reason is that the boss thinks the name of Enron is not auspicious, so he decided not to invest."
"ah?"
The two were completely stunned after hearing this. If it was any other matter, they could still find a way to solve it, but they couldn't ask Enron to change its name, right?
They really can't do this kind of thing!
On the other side, after Lu Yiming hung up the phone, he also let out a long sigh.
That was a close call!
No matter how much money was invested in Enron in 1998, it would not be enough to fill this hole.
Enron was once an energy company based in Houston, Texas.
Before declaring bankruptcy in 2001, Enron had approximately 21,000 employees and was one of the world's largest electricity, gas, and telecommunications companies, with disclosed revenues of more than $100 billion in 2000.
The company was named "the most innovative company in the United States" by Fortune magazine for six consecutive years. However, what really made Enron famous around the world was the financial fraud scandal that caused this company with assets of over 100 billion to go bankrupt within a few weeks in 2002.
In early 2001, Jim Cheos, the owner of a reputable investment firm, publicly expressed doubts about Enron's profit model.
He pointed out that although Enron's business looked brilliant, it actually made little money, and no one could explain how Enron made money. According to his analysis, Enron's profit margin was 5% in 2000, but it dropped to less than 2% in early 2001. For investors, the return on investment was only about 7%.
Chios also noticed that some of the documents involved the partnership companies behind Enron, which had unclear behind-the-scenes transactions with Enron. As Enron's CEO, Skilling had been selling Enron's stock - and he kept claiming that Enron's stock would rise from around $70 at the time to $126.
You should know that according to U.S. law, company board members cannot sell the company's shares they hold unless they leave the board.
Perhaps this is what caused people to doubt Enron and start to really investigate Enron's profitability and cash flow. By mid-August 2001, people's doubts about Enron were increasing, and ultimately led to a drop in the stock price.
On November 28, 2001, Standard & Poor's downgraded Enron's debt rating to "junk bond" level.
On November 30, 2001, Enron's stock price fell to $0.26, and its market value dropped from $80 billion at its peak to $200 million.
On December 2, 2001
Lu Yiming briefly recalled the process of Enron's bankruptcy in his mind and was filled with emotion.
What happened to the American companies that were supposed to abide by the law? In the end, even the financial fraud was done by Andersen, the world's number one accounting firm. It's really too impressive, and it's really capitalist.
Therefore, if you bought Enron stock at this time, what would be the difference between that and holding a timed mine in your hand?
While Lu Yiming was feeling lucky that he had escaped a disaster, he was also wondering if he could do something with this information gap.
After all, Enron's bankruptcy caused the deaths of many American people.
However, people's joys and sorrows are not the same. After hesitating for only two seconds, Lu Yiming decided to keep the news to himself.
Maybe the employees of Enron who are about to lose their jobs are miserable, and the investors who bought Enron’s stocks are even more heartbreaking, but it’s not their own fault, so who cares?
If you want to live a long life, it's best to mind your own business.
On Monday, Lu Yiming got up early for the first time. After leaving the community, he bought some shrimp dumplings and drove to school in an Audi.
Shi Qingxue's seat was still empty, so Lu Yiming placed a serving of shrimp dumplings on Shi Qingxue's table.
Not long after, Shi Qingxue walked into the classroom. When she saw Lu Yiming, her pretty face immediately turned red.
Lu Yiming saw Shi Qingxue and found that her cheeks were red. He immediately felt very strange: "Why is your face so red? Are you feeling unwell?"
As soon as she saw Lu Yiming, Shi Qingxue remembered the various "little tricks" Cao Jingwen had told her, and she felt her face turn red. At this time, facing Lu Yiming's eyes, she subconsciously wanted to avoid it.
"No, it's probably because the sun was too strong when I got here, and my face got sunburned."
The words that Cao Jingwen said at that time still linger in Shi Qingxue's mind, bringing strong spiritual pollution to the innocent and pure her.
The lingering visual image was too much of an impact for the girl.
Lu Yiming didn't care, he just reminded: "Then remember to tell me if you have anything to say, don't keep it in your heart."
"good."
Just at this moment, Wu Qiuya walked into the classroom.
Wu Qiuya deliberately wore a snow-white, flawless chiffon shirt today, and the most slim-fitting jeans on the lower body. Her long hair was tied into a high ponytail, revealing her slender white neck.
When many boys in the class saw this, they couldn't help but breathe rapidly. They looked at Wu Qiuya with eyes that seemed to wish they could get into her white shirt from above her neck and through the collar.
Wu Qiuya can perfectly combine the intelligence and elegance of the white shirt with the unrestrainedness and passion of jeans and handle them with ease. It can be seen that her aesthetic taste is a whole level higher than other girls of the same age.
Many boys couldn't help but whisper.
"Wu Qiuya is really getting prettier and prettier."
"Her dress is so transparent, I feel like I can see inside, it's black."
"How could she be black? She has such fair skin."
"I'm talking about the clothes inside. What are you talking about?"
“…”
Chiffon is semi-transparent, and with the scorching sun, people were already sweating even though it was still morning. Once soaked with sweat, the clothes were naturally barely visible.
With this attire, how could the young and fierce boys in the class possibly resist?
Just by looking at the frequency of Li Zhengkai's Adam's apple rolling, you can tell that he looks hungry and thirsty, and it's a very thirsty person.
Wu Qiuya faced the staring eyes of dozens of boys in the class, but she was not panicked at all and walked to her seat leisurely.
The corners of her mouth rose slightly, as if she saw nothing, and as if she understood everything.
With a few minutes left before class, Wu Qiuya took out a book called "A Collection of Application Questions" from her desk, turned to a page, and then walked towards Lu Yiming with the book.
Wu Qiuya leaned over Lu Yiming's desk, and her clothes swayed like ribbons.
Although Lu Yiming didn't want to have anything to do with Wu Qiuya, because he was afraid of being entangled by Wu Qiuya, which would be very troublesome, but he was not a saint. The sayings of "watch the nose with your eyes and the heart with your nose and don't look at what is inappropriate" did not work for him.
His eyes scanned Wu Qiuya's body unscrupulously, and after reading her, he did not forget to criticize her harshly in his heart: It's outrageous, it's really outrageous.
As for whether I should watch it or not? You dared to show it to me, so why shouldn’t I dare to watch it?
Sitting not far away, Shi Qingxue was so angry that she broke the pencil in her hand when she noticed Lu Yiming was secretly glancing at Wu Qiuya without any hesitation.
She couldn't help but recall Cao Jingwen's embarrassing "suggestions" and felt more and more confused.
Do we really have to do this?
Isn't that too embarrassing?
But now Wu Qiuya is using such a shameless tactic. Shi Qingxue feels that if she doesn't do something, Lu Yiming might really be snatched away by someone else.
However, although Shi Qingxue's personality became much more outgoing, it was precisely because of this personality that she suddenly didn't know what she should do to increase her appeal to Lu Yiming, which made her feel a little frustrated.
At this time, she remembered what Cao Jingwen had said to her, and she felt extremely conflicted.
If it is really as Cao Jingwen said, then there is no turning back once the arrow has been shot.
However, if Lu Yiming was taken away, that would be something Shi Qingxue would never be able to accept.
After a struggle between the conscience and the desires in her heart, Shi Qingxue gradually made up her mind.
After school at noon, Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue had just walked to the door when a red Mercedes-Benz coupe drove up and stopped in front of them.
Amid the roar of the engine, Su Yunwei took off her sunglasses and teased the two of them with a smile: "You two stick together like this every day. You have a really good relationship."
Shi Qingxue looked shy and called out sweetly, "Aunt, why are you picking me up today?"
Su Yun pouted at Lu Yiming and said, "Not only are they here to pick you up, but Lu Yiming is here too."
Lu Yiming was a little surprised: "Me? What? Are you planning to treat me to dinner again?"
Su Yunwei said, "No, there was a small problem at Shijinji, and my sister asked you to go over there to discuss it."
