The Goddess Shines on America

The next morning, when Jordan Belfort got up, he rushed to the newsstand.

The rush hour for work is also the peak time for office workers to buy newspapers. Jordan lives in a low-income apartment not far from Wall Street, so many office workers around him are also stockbrokers. When he arrived at the station non-stop, sure enough, many people even forgot to take the bus, but were too busy staring at the newspaper in their hands.

Jordan immediately came with a copy of the Wall Street Journal. He swore on his parents who were still alive that he knew what the main news of today was in his dreams.

Sure enough, a piece of heavy news was published on the front page.

"The first day of listing raked in 60 million US dollars, Microsoft's rise is rapid! "

"Hey guy, $60 million!?"

Jordan shouted on the spot: "Microsoft's initial assets are two million, right? A twenty-fold increase, this is really amazing!"

"Be quiet, rookie."

A middle-aged man who was waiting for the bus looked at him with dissatisfaction. He was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, and he could be seen as a stockbroker at a glance: "What's so strange about the company's value increasing by 20 times after listing? The key is to look at the future development. If Microsoft has been suppressed by IBM, HP, and Dell, do you believe that the stock price can fall to less than five dollars?"

Jordan smiled and continued to stare at the paper.

"Because of the sharp drop in the stock market the day before yesterday, the Nasdaq index plummeted by 30 points, and dozens of stocks were soaring, Microsoft's stock was almost uninterested in the call auction stage, and the opening price was forced to plummet from the issue price of 21 yuan. It was as miserable as eight cents. But when a huge bid of 100,000 US dollars was invested, the major brokerages followed suit, which prevented Microsoft's stock from encountering Waterloo at the opening..."

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

These were all news that Jordan already knew, and he even knew that he had thrown out the incredible bid of 100,000 yuan. He also knew that if he told this story, almost every investment bank would have to treat him as a VIP employee!

After all, no one can predict the future, and no stockbroker really knows where the stock market is headed. As far as the collective bidding is concerned, Microsoft's first day of listing is likely to be a disaster all the way. Not to mention returning to the issue price, it will be considered good if it can rise to five dollars!

But he took advantage of this opportunity to buy it at a very low price of 8 cents, allowing Cameron's well-known celebrity client to earn a huge book capital of 40 million with 100,000 yuan overnight!

"Wait, the price difference is 400 times..."

In fact, I was thinking wildly last night, but looking at the Wall Street Journal at this moment, Jordan instinctively felt something was wrong.

Speaking of which, why was Microsoft's stock so uninterested in the early days?

The companies that can go public are not bad. Microsoft even made a lot of money last year with the hot sale of Windows 1.0. At the end of last year, the cooperation with IBM was published in the newspapers. There was even a publicity that it would not be long Will launch Windows2.0 system. It stands to reason that it shouldn't be so bleak anyway.

Moreover, the survey questionnaire issued by Microsoft not long ago proved that many people are looking forward to its stocks.

"Is there any competitor suppressing it?"

Jordan immediately guessed the possibility. Generally speaking, the suppression of the stock market is the influx of funds to forcibly suppress the opening price in the call auction stage before the opening. But that's not the case at Microsoft now, and if you think about it...

"IBM must have secretly contacted major brokerages."

It's still early morning, but it's the West Coast. At Microsoft's corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington, executive meetings are being held in the conference room. It's about going public, so of course Alice was present, but the company just went public yesterday, so it's not possible to convene all 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 Nasdaq stocks are not comparable to those blue-chip stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, they are not comparable to those pink penny stocks. But because our Microsoft is not weak, so When those big investors are not selling, other institutions, no matter how big or small, are afraid to move, and they will all wonder if this is something wrong with us inside Microsoft."

"It seems that IBM has spent a lot of money."

Paul Allen chuckled softly: "To make the major banks give up the proceeds of a new stock listing, it can't do without paying tens of millions of dollars one by one. It turned out to be a good thing, and the business lost~"

There was a burst of easy laughter from everyone. Just after the market closed yesterday, their agency broker had already sent over the information. The bid of 100,000 U.S. dollars in the call auction stage was invested by James Cameron, which was a life-saving sum of money. After that, although Citigroup and China Securities did not make a move, led by Morgan Stanley, Rothschild and Goldman Sachs, many large, medium and small investment institutions frantically flocked to Microsoft. Eight cents to $32, that's a pretty crazy deal!

"Alice, what do you think?"

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

Everyone cast their admiring gazes on the girl one after another, whether it was the development and follow-up maintenance of Windows 1.0, or the performance in the process of cooperation with IBM, the talent Alice showed was simply terrifying like a robot. Gates, Ballmer and others have joked more than once, saying that Alice's brain should be a computer, right?

"IBM must be playing tricks."

Alice said: "The public is looking forward to our listing, otherwise PricewaterhouseCoopers would not have made an issue price of 21 US dollars. But the reason why no one was interested in the bidding is because IBM bought the major banks. , This is nonsense, there must be other reasons."

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

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

Alice blew a whistle: "As early as half a year ago, IBM and the Nasdaq Exchange purchased Cisco routers respectively. Big Blue is an old expert at playing computers. Those on the exchange are still using DOS systems. The old antiques..."

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

The excitement of going public made all the staff of the company fall into a carnival, and the celebration party had just been held last night. Therefore, almost everyone didn't think too much about the situation at that time, but now according to Alice's analysis...

Gates frowned hard.

At the same time, while Microsoft on the West Coast held its morning meeting, many Wall Street firms on the East Coast were still busy.

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

And even during the non-opening period, analyzing data, paying attention to news, judging securities market prices with fundamental analysis, and making various report materials... It is no wonder that bank securities companies will monopolize a skyscraper in the city's financial district, and they really need employees The quantity 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 the relevant information of Microsoft, muttering: "The second largest shareholder, Alice Wang, owns 30% of the shares, and then Paul Allen With a 27% share... am I wrong?"

"You read that right."

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

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

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

Tom really bowed his head and calculated. As a top student who graduated from Harvard Business School, his undergraduate major was in mathematics. Calculus, statistics, matrix sketching, he really bowed his head to calculate the probability...

No matter how suspicious the individual is, when the time comes, the relevant agencies will publish the information of the listed company. If it is said that even before Microsoft went public, many people did not pay attention to the composition of its executives, but when the "Wall Street Journal" reported that Microsoft's daily acquisition of 60 million, countless media finally couldn't sit still!

On the fifth day of Microsoft's listing, the stock price continued to maintain a high level, while the amount of money continued to pour in. At the same time, all major, medium and small newspapers have turned their passion into action, and eye-catching headlines have begun to be printed in sheets. come out.

"Microsoft went public with a capital of 100 million yuan, and a literary girl became a super rich man! ? "

"Stocks that no one cares about at the opening price have created a middle school girl's dream of becoming a billionaire! ? "

"Is it a coincidence or necessity, is it the same name or the same person? Alice and Wang, a magical combination! "

This is a country with freedom of the press, and no one can stop the desire of the reporters to write a lot, even if necessary, they can even face the president and scold the president. Although the mysterious second shareholder did not intend to show up in front of the media until the fifth day of listing, this does not mean that small and medium-sized media are afraid to use vague words to earn sales.

Then, finally on the seventh day after 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 all the financial media and magazines were excited. The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time magazine, and even the overseas "Times" and many other media have ordered to arrive in Seattle before the 12th. air ticket.

There were so many people that the tickets for many flights were sold out in an instant!