On October 5, the New York Stock Exchange near Wall Street.

Early in the morning, when the sky was still bright, Huo Yaowen and Anna got up together to wash and change clothes. Two days ago, the New York Stock Exchange Committee informed them in advance that at 9 o'clock this morning, on the eve of the opening of the New York Stock Exchange, a grand listing ceremony would be arranged.

At around half past seven, Huo Yaowen and Anna went to the New York Stock Exchange by car with Davide, Evans, Yao Wenjie and other senior executives of the Universal Newspaper.

Half an hour later, outside the gates of the New York Stock Exchange.

"A bit too many people. After Huo Yaowen got out of the car, he found that there were many people gathered at the door, and the scene swept away all the suits and leather shoes, thinking that it was either a securities trader or a stock manager.

"Mr. Evan!"

At this time, the person in charge of the New York Stock Exchange, Shack, walked over quickly, shook hands with Huo Yaowen with a smile and said: "Congratulations, Mr. Evan, your company is about to be listed on the exchange, I hope to have a good result, as you Chinese often say, a good start!"

Broken Chinese, if it weren't for Huo Yaowen's good ears and good recognition ability, he really couldn't understand what Sack said.

"Thanks, there should be a good result. ”

Huo Yaowen is still full of confidence in the stock price of Huanyu Press after its listing, not to mention that Davide and Jorkis and others have been preparing in the United States for more than half a year, just today Dr. Wang will be there in person to congratulate, relying on his name as the richest man in China and the first technology company, I think it will definitely attract many shareholders to be interested in the listing of his company.

The person in charge smiled: "Yes, I also believe that there will be a good result. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he didn't know that more than a dozen reporters came out of it, and as soon as they saw Huo Yaowen and Anna, they immediately surrounded him.

"Mr. Evan, I'm a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. I wonder if you have any guesses about the share price of your Universal Press after it goes public?"

"Haha, naturally the higher the better!"

"Mr. Evan, I'm a reporter for the New York Daily News, may I ask if Universal Press and Universal Pictures are the same company, both of which are your properties?"

"Yes, both the newspaper industry and the film company are subsidiaries of the Uniworld Group. ”

"Mr. Evan, "1999 - Earth Defense War" stopped at the global box office of 700 million US dollars, and did not surpass the front seat, does it represent the failure of this film?"

Hearing this, Huo Yaowen glanced at the man, and the words Hollywood Movie Weekly were written on the press card hanging on his body, although he was curious about why a person from an entertainment weekly came to report financial news? ”

"Although the second part of "1999" only sold $700 million at the box office, the videotape sold much better than the first one, and as for why the box office is lower, I think it may be because with the popularity of home videotapes, many people do not like to go to the cinema to watch movies, but prefer to buy videotapes to watch at home. ”

The box office of the second "1999" was not high, Huo Yaowen actually didn't expect it, but after thinking about it later, it seems that there is a reason for it. On the one hand, this year's large-scale popularity of home video recorders, the price is much cheaper, and even Hong Kong has many ordinary families to buy, which prompts some people not to go to the cinema to watch movies, but only buy video tapes to watch at home.

That's why the second "1999" videotape sold $30 million in just over a month.

"Mr. Evan......"

Most of the reporters' questions focused on Huo Yaowen, after all, among the people in this vote, the person most familiar to Americans is Huo Yaowen, so who else can he interview if he is not interviewed?

However, there are still some professional financial reporters who have set their sights on Anna, and they have learned through the information that this Anna Isabel West is the largest shareholder of Universal Newspaper.

They checked a lot of information, only to know that this lady is the British viscount, which made many reporters curious, throughout contemporary history, there are almost few British knights who have made such a big development in business.

So a reporter asked her: "Ms. West, I know that you are a British viscount, but I am curious how you came up with the idea of investing in Mr. Evan's Universal Newspaper? I don't know what your relationship is with Mr. Evan? I just saw you two coming in holding hands." ”

Anna was stunned for a few seconds, she didn't expect a reporter to ask herself, she glanced at Huo Yaowen, saw the other party's encouraging eyes, and also smiled at the reporter who asked the question, and said: "I have always been very optimistic about the development of Huanyu Newspaper and even the entire Huanyu Group...... As for my relationship with Mr. Evan, he is my husband. ”

"Husband!"

This has made many reporters even more curious, how did a British viscount develop feelings for Mr. Evan?

In an instant, most of the financial reporters turned into gossip reporters and began to ask about the relationship between the two.

In this regard, Huo Yaowen and Anna couldn't cry or laugh, so they could only answer some simple questions, and the other questions were dismissed.

"The king is coming!"

"Dr. Wang is here!"

Suddenly, at this time, Wang An walked into the exchange, as a hot technology tycoon in the United States today, he naturally attracted much attention, and was noticed by some shareholders and traders as soon as he entered the door, and then attracted the attention of reporters.

The twenty or so reporters who surrounded Huo Yaowen in an uproar all ran to Wang An.

After asking, I learned that Wang An had come to congratulate Huo Yaowen on the listing of Huanyu Newspaper.

"Dr. Wang, are you very optimistic about Huanyu Newspaper!"

"Of course, I am very optimistic about Mr. Evan's Universal Newspaper, and I rarely see a newspaper company that can do as well as Universal Newspaper, where dozens of newspapers and magazines around the world are profitable companies!"

After speaking, Wang An continued to smile: "I am not only optimistic, but also will hold a certain amount of shares after listing, I firmly believe that this company will have very good prospects!"

At this point, the title of the article came to the minds of most reporters: American technology tycoon Wang is optimistic about the future of the global newspaper industry!

When Wang An was attracting the attention of reporters, the head of the New York Stock Exchange, Shack, ran to find Huo Yaowen, "Mr. Evan, the time is almost up, and after I go over and ring the bell later, the stock market will officially start." ”

"Ring the bell?" Huo Yaowen looked left and right, and he realized that there was no hanging bell at the scene!

Shack pointed to a button locked in the cabinet in the center and said, "Yes, this is a tradition in the American stock market, do you see there is a big button over there? I'll press the switch at 9.30 in a minute." ”

After some explanation, Huo Yaowen suddenly came over, and now he is not interested in ringing the bell manually, all of them are pressing the electronic clock, and they can only be pressed by the person in charge, and there is no precedent for ringing the bell for listed companies or some well-known people.

At this moment, he suddenly became interested: "Mr. Sark, I wonder if I can press the switch?"

"This ......"

Sack frowned, although ringing the bell is very important, it represents the signal of the official start of the day's exchange, but in the end, it is just a button to give it to Huo Yaowen, in fact, it is nothing, but no one has ever made this request before.

"I'll press it on time. Huo Yaowen smiled: "In fact, we also ring the bell in Hong Kong, which is much more grand than the United States, and there will be special people to place a big bell in the hall and ring it in the traditional way." ”

At this time, the four major exchanges in Hong Kong were indeed like this, but instead of a big bell, it was a big gong, because the sound of the gong was louder and more brittle.

"I think you may be able to learn from it, if there are people from listed companies in the future, you can give them the qualification to ring the bell, as a symbol of great achievements and great glory in the life of the boss of a listed company. Not only can this be used as publicity, but it can also become a tradition on your New York Stock Exchange to attract more attention to the company's listing. ”

Huo Yaowen said in detail and very attractively, and Shack was obviously a little moved, changing the electronic bell to the traditional bell, and then publicizing the ceremony to attract the attention of shareholders and even more companies that want to go public.

"I have to say that Mr. Evan is really the best-selling author, and it's amazing that he can come up with such a brilliant idea in such a short time!"

"I just thought about it. Huo Yaowen smiled slightly, and then asked, "I don't know Mr. Sack, what is my proposal just now?"

"Hmmm......"

Sack pondered for a few seconds before he looked up and said, "Mr. Evan, I'll be standing next to you later, only if I say press you, you have to press it, because the stock market can't be delayed for a minute or a second." ”

"It's nature. ”

Seeing that Sark agreed, Huo Yaowen replied with a smile.

Immediately, Huo Yaowen pulled Anna and followed behind Sark and walked to the electronic button.

On the other side, Wang An also got rid of the reporters' questions, walked over quickly, curious about Huo Yaowen's measures, and only when he asked did he know that he was going to ring the bell, and he was immediately interested.

The reporters on the side also felt new to Huo Yaowen personally opening the prelude to the opening of the stock market on the New York Stock Exchange.

"Two minutes left, Mr. Evan!"

Sack glanced at his watch, and it was exactly 9.28 minutes.

"Hey, Mr. Evan, Mr. Wang, please come and see!"

At this time, a reporter shouted with a camera.

Huo Yaowen and Wang An subconsciously looked over.

"Click", Huo Yaowen put his hand on the button, Wang An stood aside to accompany him, and this scene was captured by the camera intact.

Meanwhile, Zac shouted in the last two seconds, "Press!"

Huo Yaowen immediately pressed the button, and in an instant, the originally chaotic and noisy stock exchange suddenly quieted down under the crisp bell.

It wasn't until the end of the ten-second ringing that there was another huge noise at the scene!

For a while, Huo Yaowen seemed to feel that the whole world was quiet, he observed the surroundings in another way, he saw that some people were selling stocks, some people were buying stocks, some managers were selling, and some shareholders were shouting shit with heavy losses!

Some people developed because of the sharp rise in stocks one second, and some people went bankrupt because of the fall of the stock market the next second......

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Bigwigs, little brothers ask for monthly passes, subscriptions, collections, and recommendation tickets...... At the beginning of April, everything is sought!!

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