I was woken up by the thunderstorm in the morning. I was in Hacienda San Lucas, Mexico. The dry climate of Baja California Sur was a rare storm.
After getting up, I looked out the window at the rain between the sea and the sky. I remembered that Carmen Keith had warned me about today's weather when I first got on the plane last night. At that time, I had two little goblins wrapped around me at the same time, so I didn't pay much attention to it. Now, I originally planned to leave after breakfast, but due to safety concerns, I have to postpone it.
Speaking of which, rainy weather always makes Simon have some inexplicable emotions like "I don't know I am a guest in my dream". I have been bothered by it all these years. When I encounter rainy days, I actually like this feeling, so after getting up, I spent yesterday A group of warblers brought here in the evening decided to spend the morning alone.
After eating breakfast alone, I went to a study room in the seaside villa and handled various tasks while listening to the sound of rain outside the window.
Carmen Case followed her boss's instructions and delivered a large pile of documents. She sat by the window, drank tea, and opened the first document, which was an analysis of the trends of the U.S. stock market, especially the Nasdaq technology stock market, in the past trading week. Report.
In April before, taking advantage of Tinker Bayer's spring new product launch, the Nasdaq index once again broke through the 7,000-point high after the first bubble peak in 1997. In the past two months, even though the date for another round of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve in July is getting closer and closer, the Nasdaq index has continued to rise amid shocks. As of yesterday's Friday closing, it had reached a high of 7,396 points.
Affected by the continuous rise of the Nasdaq, Yigrit, which has long led the technology stock market, has seen its stock price increase by 23% compared to the beginning of this year. Its market value was fixed at US$963.4 billion yesterday, which is far away from the much-anticipated first trillion-dollar company. The market capitalization target of listed companies is less than US$40 billion.
In comparison, Daenerys Entertainment Group, another super leader, once overtook Ygritte in market value at the end of last year due to the super sales of Cars peripherals. Now it has been left behind again, with a market value of more than 8,000 billion, growth has slowed down, and at the close of trading yesterday Friday, the market value was US$823.7 billion.
After Ygritte and Daenerys, the only one who can keep up with the two super giants is the emerging consumer electronics giant Tinker Bayer, which also belongs to the Westeros system. With the launch of another hit product this year, Game console ibox-10, the stock price has been rising.
As of yesterday's close, Tinker Bayer's market value reached US$736.1 billion, becoming the third listed company in the world's capital market with a market value of more than US$700 billion.
Then, Cisco, also a member of the Westeros system, as the world's largest Internet equipment supplier with a near-monopoly position, its market value fell to the 400 billion range. Yesterday's closing market value was 415.1 billion US dollars, which is 415.1 billion U.S. dollars compared with the original time and space. The market capitalization of US$600 billion at the peak of the Internet bubble has dropped significantly.
This is naturally due to the influence of Simon, the super giant butterfly.
First of all, the giants such as Ygritte, Daenerys, and Tink Bayer, who lead the North American stock market, are too dazzling and attract more capital attention, so one goes down and the other goes down.
Secondly, like AOL and Verizon, Simon also has certain strategies to suppress Cisco, such as limiting the prices of its products, such as relaxing licensing restrictions on various technical barriers, all with the purpose of promoting the Internet to the greatest extent on a global scale. Rapid popularization in exchange for greater prosperity of the entire new technology industry.
The price of the rapid development of the global Internet industry is that the revenue growth and profit levels of technology companies such as Cisco and AOL that play basic supporting roles are relatively lower than the expectations of the capital market, and their market value will inevitably be affected.
However, Cisco was far from the one who was most suppressed by Simon.
The most ruthless one is Microsoft.
Microsoft, which was once supposed to be the most popular company in the Internet 1.0 era, is now even more firmly suppressed by Simon in its role as the industry's basic supporting company. The only difference is that Cisco and AOL are hardware supporting companies, while Microsoft is a software supporting company.
Because the companies in the Westeros system are too aggressive, Microsoft has not only made no achievements in the network business in recent years, but its basic operating system business has also been threatened by the Linux platform jointly promoted by the entire Westeros system.
Under the comprehensive impact, Microsoft's market value as of yesterday's Friday's closing was only 354.5 billion U.S. dollars. It is expected that the peak of this wave of bubbles will only stay in the 400 billion range. The market capitalization of US$400 billion is certainly not low, but compared with Microsoft's overall industry status in history, the gap can be described as huge.
A direct result of the Nasdaq index's continuous breakthroughs in new highs is that Simon's personal net worth has received continued attention from the global media.
According to estimates of the Nasdaq's closing market value on Friday, June 23, media around the world generally estimate Simon's personal wealth to be between US$2.5 trillion and US$3 trillion, with the more authoritative Forbes magazine giving a figure of US$2.7 trillion. Dollar.
Still mind-numbing but absolutely impossible to ignore.
Again, the more deeply someone feels about the power of capital, the more they can realize how terrifying this number is, because it means that a young super tycoon who is still in his early thirties, with his own wealth, has a huge influence on the entire world politics. , economy, culture and other fields have strong influence that can easily influence the situation.
In fact, this is obvious just by looking at various news related to Simon in recent times.
Most people can only look forward to and marvel at this fact, but it is inevitable that a small number of people will inevitably think about where this super tycoon will eventually go
In the long history of mankind, most people have only experienced the impact that an overly powerful country can have on the world. Never before has it been like this when a person possesses an overwhelming amount of wealth that is still growing. In the end, what will happen.
Simon himself didn't know.
The goal of bringing human society into a new technological era with the 3G plan as the core is just a goal, a beautiful vision in the most ideal state. However, if it is just because his personal wealth is too huge, the world will show more and more malice towards him. When he needs to make a choice, Simon will only make one choice without hesitation. He would rather teach me to let the world down.
There was a knock on the door, and Carmen Case came in holding a pot of hot tea.
Simon, who was leaning on the leather chair with his legs crossed, came back from his thoughts and realized that after flipping through a document, he had been in a daze for a long time without realizing it, and the first pot of tea on the table had already cooled down.
Carmen put down the tray, picked up the hot tea that had just been delivered and refilled Simon's tea cup. She was about to put away the cold teapot and leave when a man's voice sounded in her ears: "It smells good, stay here for a while."
So he stood still.
She also secretly made up her mind to use today's perfume more often in the future, or to mix it with facial cream, hair lotion, etc.
Simon felt the alluring fragrance of the girl next to him and listened to the sound of rain outside the window. His mood quickly relaxed a little. He changed to an ongoing report on the current situation of the 2000 US election and continued to flip through it.