Chapter 341, I have a daughter and a granddaughter
It is impossible to say that the leaders of the major affected countries in the country have not cared about their stock markets over the past month. The sharp decline in the stock market will first lead to shortage of money in all walks of life across the country, people lose deposits, and corporate accounts will lose huge amounts of funds. Operational difficulties will naturally trigger a large wave of laid-offs and unemployment, which will lead to a significant increase in the unemployed population, increasing pressure on the social welfare system, and then the situation will quickly run towards a worse point.
If a short seller appears at this time, it will definitely attract extreme disgust from the China Securities Regulatory Commission. Therefore, any country with a mature market will establish many regulations to restrict short selling, or use various other means to stabilize the market. For example, although the Chinese stock market does not impose much restrictions on short selling, and even the process of "selling stocks before short selling and then buying", it has at least set a daily limit limit.
But to be honest, 1.5 billion is not a big number.
Because this is her investment income worldwide.
After this whole disaster, the losses of the US stock market were about 500 billion, which is equivalent to the annual GDP of France. If Alice had obtained all the more than one billion in the past four weeks from here, it would have attracted the attention of the Federal Reserve long ago, and F-Press would have been watching her for violating market rules, in order to catch her quickly.
The smart girl certainly understands this truth, so when she bought stocks more than a year ago, she was shopping around the world and then focused her attention on some codes that would surge and plummet. In so many countries and so many stock markets, the money is naturally extremely inconspicuous. Although it is not yet the 21st century, there are only a few unicorns in Silicon Valley, and there are fewer than a hundred billion bulls in the stock market to show their presence, but it is not that a mere 1.5 billion can make up many waves.
However, this is considered from the perspective of the entire world under the premise of the most ideal state.
In practical action, when Alice held tens of millions of funds and shorted the considerable funds of companies such as BP every minute, many financial experts would definitely be furious. In addition, the big capitalists who were trapped will definitely not be honest and will inevitably communicate with the nobles of the House of Lords who are in the same social class. It is not surprising that a mere sentence was finally exposed to the queen.
Then, a problem will naturally be placed before Elizabeth II.
First of all, Alice did not violate the market trading rules. It fell when buying and rose when selling. There are countless funds flowing on the London Stock Exchange every day. The profit of more than one billion yuan is not a big deal in terms of total volume.
But this is earned by one person after all.
When such a genius is sent to a politician, anyone with a normal IQ will choose to win over it instead of making things stupidly.
"Before meeting you today, Alice, I've learned about you very carefully."
Her Majesty the Queen said: "You seem to be very interested in investment. Although there are many companies under your jurisdiction, there are only one Cisco system and the clothing company in China. For other companies, you either find ways to invest or directly acquire them, which are all investment behaviors."
"So I'm curious, since you've been studying and living in our UK for a year and haven't missed the opportunity to arbitrage from the stock market, have you never considered local investment?"
It was like throwing pieces of pie directly in front of him, which made Alice feel very energetic.
What does the Queen mean?
Are you going to attract investment personally?
It makes sense, Alice thought so. Although she got a profit of over 100 million yuan from the London stock market, if she really invested in a large domestic enterprise, or even set up branches overseas, or simply built factories in other countries to promote employment, the long-term benefits would be amazing.
Yes, it must be the reason. You took ten dollars from my pocket and I asked you to pay me one hundred dollars slowly over ten days. That's the nature.
"Good idea!"
After instantly figuring it out, Alice smiled: "Britain is a century-old industrial power. What about this? Her Majesty the Queen, I will invest in the British Telecom Company soon... Look at how it is 50 million US dollars. After all, my Cisco is also an Internet hardware company. If you can get a cooperative relationship with this company, I believe it will be very beneficial to both of us, right?"
This was actually quite funny. A businessman used the attitude of business cooperation to talk to the highest political leaders about the benefits of corporate cooperation, and the businessman was just a teenage girl. However, when Elizabeth chuckled softly, she did not feel any contempt.
"I have heard the name of Cisco in recent months."
The queen is not young, but she is still healthy and has no trembling hands when she pours tea: "Since 'Eniac'' invention, the productivity of these decades has been driven entirely by computers. Although your Internet hardware industry started with your Cisco, it seems that the market has been very large in just a few years, right? It's not because of the ipo, not only did the Wall Street Journal repeatedly comment, but even the Daily Mail repeatedly published. The listing of the founder of the industry must not be avoided by people in the financial industry, right?"
Alice gulped and drank all the entire cup of tea. Then she squirmed her throat hard, as if she was desperately swallowing something hard: "I say to you, your Majesty, did you know what you said when you investigate me, or did you know it long ago?"
Tell me the name of the first human computer, Aniac!
Citco's market position is clearly explained in one sentence!
To be honest, when she saw Elizabeth II, Alice naturally thought of her grandmother, and even all her relatives in her previous life. Although she knew that the identities of Queen England and her grandmother were of course very different, it was really strange to see an old lady over 60 years old who actually talked about these "fresh things".
"You mean the order? This is hard to say. The days are going through, and I haven't made such a thing so carefully."
The Queen jumped away from the topic in a few words and said, "So, BT, do you want to invest in it?"
Alice nodded slowly.
This nod was sincere. Even if the Queen did not have the force of asking at this time, she would have been able to throw money into this company when she was free in the future.
Because the first reason is, as she just told the Queen, for Cisco, it is of course beneficial to establish a relationship with the telecommunications company. And if Alice invested in the British Telecommunications company, it would be like directly opening up the overseas market, why not?
The British Telecom Company was originally a state-owned telecommunications utility, managed by the British Post Office. On October 1, 1981, it left the Royal Post and became an independent state-owned enterprise. However, later, under the rule of British Conservative Prime Minister Mrs. Thatcher, starting from 1984, it began to sell up to 50% of the public shares to the market and became a private company.
Because of this deep background, the company has always been the operator of the largest telecommunications facility hardware in the UK, and has business locations or offices in 170 countries around the world. The sales of overseas business offices account for one-third of the group's total sales.
It will happen sooner or later that Cisco and telecom companies will be able to get in touch with time, but Alice is reluctant to invest in several American companies such as At&T. Making big news in China will attract too much attention, but if you look into the UK to invest in the distance, the vibration will be much smaller.
Anyway, for Cisco at this time, from a technical perspective, there is no difference between British Telecom and At&T, and it doesn't matter to Alice. Furthermore, since it is now starting to develop basic equipment such as network card modules and other equipment with Lucent, isn't it better to set up a R&D center in the UK, which has a strong academic atmosphere?
"Good idea, but that's only 50 million."
However, after receiving Alice's affirmative answer, the queen was still dissatisfied and continued: "British Telecom is very large. You may only buy one thousandth of a thousand of your 50 million yuan. Why not add more money, for example... Haha, 500 million yuan?"
Five hundred million, I really dare to say it.
Alice is ashamed, but she is more ashamed of herself. Facing a company with a market value of tens of billions, facing a person of the Queen of England who says what to invest and then only sells "just" 50 million US dollars, there is really no more price reduction than this.
Yes, Alice immediately thought of this problem, and of course the Queen knew how valuable she is now.
Not long ago, Fortune magazine had conducted her second exclusive interview. As the main source of funds, Microsoft's second largest shareholder has indeed had a lot of assets, but it is far from being able to discuss business with the Queen of England face to face. So, today she specially sent a female housekeeper to invite herself to Windsor Castle. Is it really only for the expected investment of tens of millions?
"I have a daughter named Anne..."
Sure enough, the Queen started another new topic: "Her only daughter, my granddaughter Zara, is just six years old this year, just when she was enrolling in elementary school. Now Eaton can also recruit girls. I once hoped that she could spend her middle school career here by then, but the child seemed to have found his favorite early."
The more you hear this topic, the more weird it becomes. With the queen's smile, Alice's guess came true instantly.
"Child, are you interested in being a computer tutor for my granddaughter?"
Chapter completed!