The Goddess Shines on America

In late August 1988, many people were paying attention to a piece of news that attracted worldwide attention. The eight-year-old Iran-Iraq War finally came to an end. In this veritable marathon battle, no one is a real winner. Both countries have exhausted their own resources for the war, and their economic development plans have been postponed for at least 20 to 30 years.

Naturally, Western countries have long been looking forward to the end of this war. Perhaps a small number of arms dealers can make profits from it, but considering the overall international situation, the soaring oil price affects the development of the global comprehensive field. Therefore, when the armistice agreement was finally reached, a large number of people in many European and American countries rushed to the streets to celebrate the recovery of oil prices in their countries.

When the war ended and the price of oil picked up, the stocks of oil and gas companies naturally went up. Wall Street is boiling, because a large number of orders are frantically pouring into various investment institutions. Although as early as a few months ago in a "Ramadan operation", the clarion call for the end of the war has been sounded loudly, but for most people , In the end, this is the time to buy.

However, at this time, a huge flow of funds was withdrawn downstream. This was the best time to invest, but the shareholders did not hesitate to withdraw all the money. With a total cash amount of 457 million U.S. dollars, it topped the list of many individual stocks that day. For a while, many stockbrokers were shocked after checking the relevant information.

Who, in this best period for investing in oil stocks, actually withdrew all the money?

After a momentary question, there will be continuous investigation, and soon, the result will come out.

It was Alice Wang.

In the "87 stock market crash", the girl who cleverly used market rules to maximize her short selling profit clearly had seen the fluctuations in the rise of oil stocks on various exchanges before and after the end of the Iran-Iraq War. **** and Citigroup, the two big banks that counted them as VIP clients, immediately launched routine investigations into their assets.

Facts have proved that as early as April 1 this year, Alice Wang invested 280 million US dollars in global oil companies through two banks, Israel and Citigroup. Of course, this is not a small amount of money, but for her who got more than one billion in the "87 stock market crash", taking out such a sum of money and throwing it to many companies in batches is not too exaggerated and intriguing. attention-grabbing matter.

The total investment of 280 million US dollars has increased by about one-tenth after the Ramadan operation launched by the Iraqi army on April 16. The recovery of the Fao region, which had been occupied by Iran for two years, has indeed caused the price of oil to recover a lot, and the recovery of the stock prices of oil and gas companies also began at this time.

Therefore, when the armistice agreement is finally over, it is no wonder that this amount of funds can rise to as much as 320 million. But this does not make those concerned brokers free from doubts. Although Alice Wang has obviously made nearly half of the income by relying on the foresight in the past six months, the next is the time for a big rise.

On the contrary, there was still a time difference of three to five days, and it was the rapid increase during this period that made the total funds soar to the threshold of 400 million like a roller coaster ride. However, this whole increase will definitely continue for a while, and what will she do for the sake of ignoring the gains after she gave up?

A piece of news appeared endlessly, and each case merged into a timeline, most people simply did not have the ability to distinguish so clearly. However, as investment brokers in the financial industry, as well as journalists and editors of large newspapers, of course, they still have a high degree of professional sensitivity to such matters, and can quickly sort out enough information from them.

In early August, Cisco cooperated with Lucent Technology, the second oldest in the industry, and finally launched an optical module.

Because this is no longer a router, switch or even a firewall, this kind of commodity that can be directly purchased and used by countless individual companies and even individual users, but a very basic field of spare parts. After the Cisco \u0026 Lucent joint press conference was held, magazines such as "Popular Electronics" and "Silicon Valley" weekly magazines immediately launched knowledge popularization work.

To put it simply, the function of the optical module is photoelectric conversion. The transmitting end converts the electrical signal into an optical signal. After transmission through the optical fiber, the receiving end converts the optical signal into an electrical signal. It is an important device in the optical fiber communication system. It is composed of optoelectronic devices, functional circuits and optical interfaces, etc., and optoelectronic devices include two parts: transmitting and receiving.

The working principle of its transmitting part is to drive the semiconductor laser or light-emitting diode to emit a modulated optical signal at a corresponding rate after the electrical signal of a certain code rate is processed by the internal driver chip. It has an automatic optical power control circuit inside, so that the output The optical signal power remains stable.

The working principle of the receiving part is that after the optical signal of a certain code rate is input into the module, it is converted into an electrical signal by the photodetector diode, and then the electrical signal of the corresponding code rate is output after the preamplifier.

The current issue of "Popular Electronics" magazine was written by a newcomer reporter named Zoe Barnes, which not only introduced the specific principles and functions of the optical module in detail, but also elaborated on its specific application fields.

Obviously, what makes this product most effective is the laying of an entire fiber optic network infrastructure.

In 1966, Kao Kung, a British Chinese born in Shanghai, China, published the paper "Optical Frequency Dielectric Fiber Surface Waveguide", which first proposed the concept of optical fiber network. Then in 1970, an optical fiber with a loss of 20db/km was developed. It is said that Corning spent 30 million US dollars to purchase a 30-meter optical fiber sample, and it was considered very worthwhile. At the same time, this breakthrough also caused a shock in the entire communication industry, and the developed countries in the world began to invest huge efforts in the research of optical fiber communication.

Therefore, when the world's major telecommunications companies are widely laying coaxial cables, the relatively late product of the optical fiber network has not missed the wave of global network infrastructure. Of course, even as the 1980s draw to a close, no one knows what the 1990s will be like, but compared to the poor network coverage of the Arpanet when it first came out, the changes today are really impressive. To describe it as overwhelming.

Undoubtedly, this product is the basic spare parts developed by the two companies for the optical fiber network, and ordinary people don't need it at all, unless they plan to build an optical fiber network by themselves. But for AT\u0026T and British Telecom, this is simply the most wonderful treasure. It is not an exaggeration to call it a bulk commodity in the IT technology industry, and it is often an order of tens of millions!

Therefore, this is the wonder of stock trading. Ordinary stockholders will not buy any optical modules at all, and even for many people, a whole Cisco product is not needed, but this does not affect their ecstasy at Cisco's new progress, because the stock price is going to be higher. up~

But the topic returns to the main thread. Even if Cisco launches optical module products, it can earn tens of millions of yuan in profits from major telecom operators every year. What does this have to do with Alice Wang’s eagerness to withdraw from the oil market?

With more than 400 million US dollars in cash, it is obvious that this girl has made a big move, and the benefits that this move can bring to her are definitely higher than the little money brought by the rise in stock prices.

The girl did not break the law, and the people in the bank had no right to trace her funds flow, so if they wanted to know her real purpose, these managers and media reporters could only follow the clues of other news and grope step by step.

If you want to talk about clues, there are actually a lot of clues, because you don’t know if you don’t check. After checking, many bank managers were surprised to find that Alice Wang stretched her tentacles so wide without knowing it. Far.

Rumor has it that around August 12, a Washington Post reporter saw her near the Lockheed building in Maryland. As for the research and development of avionics systems for military aircraft, maybe it can really have something to do with Alice Wang, who was born in Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, the reporter pressed the shutter of the camera and found out that somehow, his film was exposed inexplicably.

It is also reported that Mr. Li Ka-shing, chairman of the board of directors of Hong Kong Cheung Kong Group, once again explained his new round of investment behavior to the media. Los Angeles is a city with many overseas Chinese. If a pharmaceutical factory can be built there, he believes that there will be a very good market prospect. However, he has not yet given a definite answer to the plan for new drug research and development. He only said that he will establish a medical research institute in the UK with the young little Alice, but he did not disclose specific details.

Of course, another piece of old news was picked up again by the "Los Angeles Times" because of the refreshment of the content. The Alice Building with a total of 528 meters in metric system is under construction, but when the foundations of the seven underground floors have just been laid firmly, the change in the final height of the building comes out again. It is no longer 500, but a full 632 meters in height, which not only breaks the skyscraper height record again, but also completely breaks through to 600, this astonishing number!

Is this why Alice Wang is eager to transfer funds?

The managers guessed this way. After all, a 600-meter-level skyscraper like this can't be built just by piling up materials. Although according to sources, the blueprint of this building was completely drawn by the talented girl herself, and supported by the architectural design research institute she established herself, which can save a lot of money, but it can only save a part of the money.

You know, the price of building materials cannot be used to calculate beams by weight. Don't look at the majestic stone buildings of the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center, just look at the price of materials, those stones are not worth much. Otherwise, it would not be a house built in the 1930s.

But according to a report by the Los Angeles Times, the 600-meter-high skyscraper will be covered with glass curtain walls.