Chapter 453 Stock Expert
Bi Hai Long Ting, Villa No. 21.
As soon as Lu Yiming walked into the yard, Li Quanwang sneaked in from behind and looked around. After finding that Lu Yiming was indeed alone, Li Quanwang asked in confusion: "Eh? That's strange, you didn't bring Wu Qiuya back? Didn't Shi Qingxue go to the United States? What a good opportunity."
Lu Yiming curled his lips and said, "What good opportunity? What are you talking about?"
Li Quanwang was not polite at all, with a look of contempt on his face: "You are still pretending to be nice to me? With her willing look, I don't believe you can resist. Tell me the truth, did you expect me to come to check on you, so you hid her first?"
Lu Yiming slapped Li Quanwang on the head and cursed, "Fuck you. I'm a gentleman, okay?"
Li Quanwang silently raised his middle finger towards Lu Yiming: "Before you say that, can you wipe off the lipstick marks on your lips first?"
Lu Yiming stretched out his hand and touched it, and there was indeed a hint of pink on his fingertips, with a faint fragrance. He knew who left it without asking.
Li Quanwang had a sly look on his face and asked, "Hey, how's it going? Is it fun?"
Lu Yiming immediately rubbed his dog head angrily: "You didn't see anything, do you know that? Otherwise, be careful or I will kill you to silence you."
Li Quanwang sighed and said, "Men, it's better to be loyal. Look, Shi Qingxue is so devoted to you. If you cheat on her, she will be sad."
Lu Yiming said indignantly: "What's the matter? You, a guy who has never even held a girl's hand, are you planning to change your career to become an emotional mentor?"
Then Lu Yiming sighed again and said, "It's a farewell dinner. We'll go our separate ways after we eat. I don't know how many people I'll never see again in this life."
The meeting between people is a fate.
But when fate comes to an end, once fate is over, we can only face separation. After all, everyone has their own life.
In his previous life, he and Li Quanwang hadn’t seen each other for many years after this farewell dinner. They were busy working all day to make a living and had no time to relax.
But now, no matter he or Li Quanwang, they are no longer the same. Li Quanwang doesn't have to work hard to make a living, and he can't be poor. Both brothers have the ability to say no to this fucked up world.
Li Quanwang didn't know what Lu Yiming was thinking at the moment. He was also immersed in the melancholy of parting. Then he said thankfully, "Fortunately, we all go to college in Zhonghai, and the campuses are close. It's difficult for others. Study committee member Zhan Jingyun went to the northwest, class leader Wu Kejun went to Shandong, Li Zhengkai was admitted to Peking University, and Lu Jiajia, who has a diplomat father, went directly to study abroad."
The reason why Li Quanwang, a poor student, was able to go to college was because he had money. There were more ordinary people in the class. They had no money or superpowers, and they went to work on construction sites after graduating from high school. For example, Xiao Qinghe and Lu Yiping had already told Lu Yiming during dinner that they had found a job moving bricks on a construction site, and the salary was not bad.
Lu Yiming said with some melancholy: "Yeah, I don't know when we will meet next time. Okay, let's go to bed quickly. I think I drank a little too much."
After returning to the villa, he took a hot bath for an hour and sweated a lot. His slightly groggy mind suddenly became much clearer. Lu Yiming turned on the computer and processed a lot of work through foxmail and meow meow before falling asleep peacefully.
The next morning, Lu Yiming was awakened by the ringing of his cell phone.
He picked up his newly replaced pager and pressed the answer button.
"Hello? Who is this?"
A long-lost voice came from the other end of the phone.
"It's me, Zheng Zhiguang."
Lu Yiming yawned and said, "Ah, it's you, Xiao Zheng. You called me so early in the morning. Aren't you afraid that I might be in a bad mood?"
Zheng Zhiguang automatically filtered out Lu Yiming's words and said hurriedly, "Boss Lu, the matter you asked me to look after has come to fruition."
"oh?"
Lu Yiming sat up suddenly and asked, "Tell me about it."
Zheng Zhiguang said: "My classmates in London told me that some people are eager to sell Orange's shares, but they want cash payment, and it must be paid immediately."
When Lu Yiming heard this, he suddenly stopped sleeping and said with joy, "Ask him how many he has. I want them all. You can negotiate the price."
"Okay!"
Zheng Zhiguang agreed very readily , as if he saw the glittering commission waving at him.
But then, Zheng Zhiguang became curious again and asked, "Mr. Lu, why do you want to buy the stock of this company? Recently, Vodafone and Mannesmann, two European telecom giants, are fighting fiercely and have stolen all the limelight. Although Orange ranks third, it is like an invisible company. No one is optimistic about them at all."
If they were optimistic, his classmates wouldn't be in such a hurry to sell their stocks for cash now.
This is not surprising at all. The market is often like this. The first and second players compete fiercely, and then after a while, the third player loses control and the market is completely divided up. For example, in Lu Yiming's impression, Wang Laoji competed with Jiaduobao, but Heqizheng was gone...
Of course, that doesn't matter.
The important thing is that Lu Yiming remembers very clearly that this Orange Company, which seemed to be going out of business, would eventually be sold at a sky-high price under Li Chaoren's clever operation, shocking everyone.
Therefore, Lu Yiming had to take action and make the most of the money.
Lu Yiming didn't explain too much to Zheng Zhiguang, he just casually talked about another thing.
"Don't say I didn't remind you. If you hold shares of any big companies, sell them quickly while the market is good, especially those related to the Internet."
Zheng Zhiguang was puzzled and asked, "The U.S. stock market is doing very well right now. It has reached a high of 11,000 points and is creating new myths every day. Maybe it will break through to 12,000 points next month, or even 15,000 or 20,000... With such a good momentum, why would you quit?"
Facing the optimistic stock market, Zheng Zhiguang felt that Lu Yiming was worrying too much. Instead of running away, he wanted to learn from Lu Yiming and find a leverage to make a big profit!
Didn’t Lu Yiming make hundreds of millions of dollars by doing this before?
Lu Yiming couldn't say that the Internet stock market crash was about to begin, so he could only say, "If you believe me, run away quickly, the faster the better. I won't cheat you. If you don't want to run away, then I've already said this much, if you want to lose money, just lose your own money, and it's fine if you lose my money . You actually believed the nonsense about the stock market reaching 20,000 points? Be careful or you'll soar into the sky and head straight for the sun."
Zheng Zhiguang said doubtfully, "No way? The U.S. stock market is indeed booming right now, and many U.S. stock analysts are optimistic about the prospects of the U.S. stock market. Are they all lying?"
Lu Yiming said contemptuously: "How fresh! Do you think foreign experts don't lie?"
Seeing Lu Yiming's serious words, Zheng Zhiguang couldn't help but feel nervous: "Damn, is there really a problem?"
Once you get deeply involved in many things, you will lose the ability to think, and no matter how outrageous what others say is, you will believe it involuntarily.
After Lu Yiming's advice, Zheng Zhiguang suddenly came to his senses.
Lu Yiming went on to say, "Now the US stock market has reached the limit of 11,000 points. After all, the virtual economy still needs to be supported by real industries, and the game of passing the parcel cannot continue forever. So now the question is, these experts are all economists, can't they see the risks? No, they see it very clearly, but it is precisely because they see it clearly that they are desperately promoting it. After all, bragging is not against the law, but if they can't sell the stocks in their hands, they may have to consider going to the rooftop."
"Good fellow."
When Zheng Zhiguang heard this, he suddenly came to his senses.
"This means that the original bankers are about to start collective capital flight."
Only a fool would take over stocks that are at high prices.
But how many fools are there in the world?
There is no other way but to rely on cheating and deceiving. The high salaries of stock analysts are certainly not given for free, and they will only speak for the financial sponsors who pay them.
"These people are really worthless. Isn't it obvious that they are harming the people?"
Lu Yiming sighed and said, "So ordinary people should not think of getting rich from stocks. In a war mode with asymmetric information, the leeks will always be harvested. After all, ordinary people do not have smooth information channels and cannot control the most real intelligence. What you hear and see are what others want you to hear and see. Under such circumstances, it is impossible for the decisions you make to be correct."
Zheng Zhiguang understood at this time that if he didn't run away, he would be the unlucky guy trapped at a high position.
"Okay, I'll sell it right away. Well, I've listened to a lot of experts' analysis, and I think what they say makes sense, so..."
Lu Yiming couldn't help but complain: "Listen to the experts and invest in stocks? You are really stubborn."
Zheng Zhiguang quickly stated: "It's all my fault, okay? From now on, I will only believe you. As for experts and professors, I will just ignore what they say."
Then, he added with emotion: "If the stock market crashes, won't many people lose everything?"
Lu Yiming said: "If you don't gamble, you won't lose, so there's no need to feel sorry for these people. After all, there are too many pitiful people in the world, and we can't take care of them all."
It has to be said that in the current U.S. stock market, there are very few people who can calmly judge the situation, but there are many crazy people, and the market is in an unprecedented state of madness.
January 4, 1999, the first trading day of 1999.
On that day, the Dow Jones closed at 9,184.27.
On March 29, the Dow Jones Index broke through the 10,000-point mark for the first time in history, closing at 10,006.78 points. At that time, the entire Wall Street cheered and celebrated the historic moment of the U.S. stock market.
Although entering the "10,000+" era was a few months later than expected, we have finally crossed the historic threshold of "10,000+".
After being hit by the Asian and Russian financial crises in the previous year, the mood of investors in the United States has become active again. People fantasize that the Dow Jones Index will quickly climb to a new historical high - 12,000 points, 15,000 points, 20,000 points... or even higher.
As a result, a series of books by so-called "stock experts" advocating that the US stock market will "inexorably" move towards unimaginable heights one after another were released this year.
for example……
James Glassman and Kevin Hassett co-authored a new book - Dow 36,000: A New Strategy for Profiting from the Stock Market Rise.
Glassman, a former financial columnist for The Washington Post, and Hassett, a resident research scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, claim in their book that "through mathematical modeling, stock prices may soon double, triple, or even quadruple, and valuations are still not too high."
Even directly extrapolating the date for the Dow Jones Industrial Average to reach 36,000 would probably be the first few months of 2005, but perhaps earlier.
However, there are prophets who are crazier than them.
David Elias published a book called "Dow 40,000: A Strategy for Profiting from the Greatest Bull Market in History", claiming that according to his calculations, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will reach a peak of 40,000 points in the next decade.
There is even a book called "Dow Jones 100,000 Points", which believes that the Dow Jones Index will eventually reach a peak of 100,000 points...
All we can say is that if God wants to destroy someone, he must first make him crazy.
Although it is not known whose money these experts took or whether they are born with intellectual disabilities, there is no doubt that their actions are ruining the destiny of the United States.
Wall Street's reckless reaping of profits from the stock market will only continue to eliminate the middle class, which is the cornerstone of society. Coupled with industrial transfer, it can be said that the seeds of the country's decline decades later have already been sown at this time.
But what does all this have to do with Lu Yiming?
He doesn't care about the life or death of the American people. What he cares about is how much benefit he can get from this grand carnival.
The essence of business is no different from hunting. It may not involve bloodshed, but it is equally cruel and ruthless.
After finishing his call with Zheng Zhiguang, Lu Yiming called Li Quanwang, hoping to ask him out for breakfast. However, the guy probably hadn’t gotten up yet, so the call was not connected at all.
Lu Yiming couldn't sleep now, so he brushed his teeth, washed his face, and prepared to go out to eat alone.
Just after leaving the community, Lu Yiming suddenly received a call from Su Yunjin.
"Hey, Xiao Ming, are you up yet?"
Lu Yiming didn't know why Su Yunjin called him at this time, but he still answered: "I just got up, what's wrong, Auntie?"
Su Yunjin said, "Your uncle and I are still in the United States. Xiaoxue said that she has no one to play with here and wants to go back. Can you pick her up at the airport?"
Hearing that Shi Qingxue was coming back, Lu Yiming was very happy and said hurriedly: "No trouble, when will she arrive? I can pick her up at any time and make sure she is safely home."
Fourteen hours later, Lu Yiming met Shi Qingxue at the airport.
Shi Qingxue walked out of the airport with two large suitcases.
Lu Yiming hurried over and hugged her.
Looking at the people coming and going around her, Shi Qingxue blushed suddenly.
"Hey, there are so many people watching, let go quickly."
Lu Yiming just cheated and said, "Just watch it, they are so envious."
After a long while, Lu Yiming finally let go, took the suitcase from Shi Qingxue's hand, and walked towards the Audi car on the side of the road.
Back at the Shi family mansion, Shi Qingxue happily took out a gift box from her backpack and said, "This is for you."
Lu Yiming took it and said with a smile: "You're going out, and you brought me a gift."
Shi Qingxue said with a smile: "Didn't you bring me a gift last time you went out? It's rude not to reciprocate. Hurry up and open it and take a look."
Lu Yiming opened it and found that it was an old watch, elegant and stylish, full of mechanical complex beauty. When he took the watch in his hand and played with it, he noticed that there were scratches on the back. He looked closely and exclaimed: "Wow, is this the work of Master Franck Muller?"
Shi Qingxue raised her head proudly: "Do you like it?"
Lu Yiming sighed: "This thing of yours is not cheap, right?"
Franck Muller is a Swiss watchmaker who named a watch brand after himself in 1983.
Relying on avant-garde creativity and subverting the traditional concept of time reading, it swept the high-priced watch market in just over ten years.
Today, although the brand has only a dozen years of history, it has become a classic watch brand.
In his previous life, Lu Yiming had seen a Franck Muller watch that was put up for auction. The price was as high as 2.4 million US dollars, which was definitely not something that ordinary people could afford.
Even if the watch in front of you doesn't cost 2.4 million, it's not cheap either. It must cost several dozen dollars.
And it’s in US dollars.
Even if Shi Qingxue was rich, beautiful, Su Yunjin would never give her so much money to squander.
"Don't tell me you bought this."
Shi Qingxue smiled and said, "No, this watch was given to me as a gift by an uncle. I heard that he runs a Chinese restaurant chain in the United States. His business is very big and he also likes to collect famous watches."
"I'm running a Chinese restaurant chain in the United States... I have a big business... I like to collect famous watches..."
Suddenly, an image of a person popped up in Lu Yiming's mind, and he couldn't help but ask, "Is the uncle you are talking about surnamed Qiao?"
Shi Qingxue was immediately surprised: "Huh? You know him?"
Lu Yiming didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "The world is really small. Although I have never met this Uncle Qiao you mentioned, I probably know him. He has a son named Qiao Ke, right?"
Chinese people in the United States basically stick together for warmth, especially those who do business, so it is normal for them to know each other.
The Uncle Qiao that Shi Qingxue mentioned is probably Qiao Ke’s father.
Lu Yiming finally came to his senses. Rather than saying that the Franck Muller watch in front of him was given to Shi Qingxue, it was better to say that the other party wanted to use Shi Qingxue's hand to give him a gift. After all, how could he give a watch as a gift to a junior girl for the first time? And it was a men's model.
I can only say that he is worthy of being an old fox in the business world who has made a name for himself in the United States. Even his gift giving is so elaborate.
Lu Yiming felt that this had broadened his horizons.
