Chapter 850: Inventory of Industries in the United States
Although there are women who have everything to do, Lin Cheng can't wait to be around Xiao Jingshu 24 hours a day and grow up with her slowly, but Lin Cheng finally came to the United States to take stock and inspect his American imperialist industry, and make plans and layouts for the Lin family's future industries in the United States.
The largest piece of Lin Cheng's industry in the United States is the countless shares of technology stocks held by Today's Capital.
As the saying goes, if God wants to destroy people, he must first make them crazy, and the Nasdaq index of US imperialism has skyrocketed from 1,000 points in 1995 to 4,000 points today, but this is still not the end.
By March next year, the Nasdaq index will soar to an all-time high of 5,048 points, but after the dot-com bubble burst, it took only half a year for the Nasdaq index to fall back to 1,000 points.
However, it is only the middle of June '99, and there are still eight or nine months to go before the stock market crash in March next year, and there is still a lot of profit to invest in the NASDAQ stock market at this time.
For example, Microsoft's current market value is 500 billion, and Bill Gates' 18% Microsoft shares are worth 90 billion, and Microsoft's market value will skyrocket to 616 billion next year.
It's just that Bill Gates has been insisting on cashing out Microsoft shares since 1994, and Bill Gates's share of Microsoft shares has been reduced from a maximum of 45% to a minimum of 1.34%.
Now Bill Gates is obviously still insisting on cashing out Microsoft's shares on a large scale, although this has never made his personal wealth break through the 100 billion mark, but it has also reduced the impact of the stock market crash next year.
However, Comrade Lao Gai may have made a mistake that will be irreparable in his life, and he found a top investment manager named Larson to manage his wealth for him, and this guy named Larson has been tirelessly encouraging Comrade Lao Gai to reduce his stake in Microsoft.
According to Larson, Comrade Lao Gai concentrated all his assets on Microsoft, and the risk exposure was too large, and a reasonable allocation should be made.
As a result, Larson's rational allocation strategy is to continuously reduce Lao Gai's stake in Microsoft for more than 20 years, and Comrade Lao Gai has cashed out a total of more than 56 billion US dollars from Microsoft for other investments in more than 20 years.
But when we do a simple addition and subtraction, if Comrade Lao Gai had been holding 45 percent of Microsoft's shares in his hands that year, his personal wealth would have exceeded 200 billion yuan this year, and when Microsoft's market value exceeded $700 billion in later generations, Comrade Gai's personal wealth would have exceeded the 300 billion mark.
So much so that there was a joke in later generations that ridiculed Lao Gai and his fund manager Larson, saying that the two of them worked together to make Comrade Lao Gai maintain the status of the richest man in the world, which is really good!
But if Comrade Lao Gai had not reduced his holdings in Microsoft, Comrade Lao Gai's personal wealth would have reached up to 300 billion, and it would have remained at around 250 billion all year round.
Not to mention Comrade Lao Gai and his clumsy investment manager, Lin Cheng has swept 85.2 million shares of Microsoft in the secondary market, and his share has reached 1.12%, which can really be described as a shareholder.
At present, Microsoft's market value is 500 billion, which means that Lin Cheng's shares in Microsoft alone are worth as much as 5.6 billion US dollars.
Not only Microsoft, but he also holds some of the crazy shares on the NASDAQ, and the market value of the other shares adds up to about 5 billion US dollars, and the market value of the NASDAQ shares held by Lin Cheng has exceeded the 10 billion mark, as high as 10.6 billion US dollars.
In the past two years, Lin Cheng has spent more than one billion dollars on these NASDAQ shares, but now it has brought him nearly ten times the return, which can be called a typical example of turning a bicycle into a motorcycle.
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In addition to NASDAQ stocks, Lin Cheng's industries in the United States also include entertainment industries, namely Williams Film Company and Edward Games Company.
Williams Films' production is a bit low, and only one "The Matrix" has been released so far, but just one "The Matrix" has put Williams Film out of the limelight.
Since its global release on June 1, "The Matrix" has grossed $152 million in North America, $135 million overseas, and $287 million worldwide.
And as a hit movie, the reputation of "The Matrix" is still very high, maintaining a freshness of 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, reaching the level of a classic must-see.
Although this Rotten Tomatoes index will eventually dilute to below 90% as the number of moviegoers increases, such a movie can already compete for the top ten movies of the year.
After "The Matrix", Williams Films' next project is "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", and now the global audition is in full swing, and the three main actors will be selected.
Lin Cheng was quite interested in this, wondering if he would join the team of the examiner and play a cultivation game with the future beauty Hermione.
As for Edwards Games, their Counter-Strike Half-Life has completed production and was a blockbuster at the E3 Game Show in Los Angeles last month, and is now sweeping Internet cafes around the world at a viral rate.
Lin Cheng's first contact with "Counter-Strike" was in his previous life in 2000, when Internet cafes were full of "da-da" gunshots, which can be described as a classic of the times.
As for Lin Cheng's last industry in the United States, it was the umbrella company that was opened last year, and the main business of the umbrella company is to provide security services to the rich, with a revenue of about hundreds of thousands of dollars every month.
This little income is naturally a drop in the bucket for Lin Cheng, and it is not worth mentioning. It's just that the drunkard doesn't mean to drink, and the reason why Lin Cheng founded the umbrella company is to cultivate his own military organization.
In addition to having an external sales department in Los Angeles, Umbrella has purchased an 80,000-acre Monteson ranch in Montana to be used as a military training center.
However, although the US imperialists are rampant with guns, the legal system is still quite sound, and the establishment of a military base in the Monteson Ranch is obviously not a long-term solution.
Since the second half of last year, the military base has gradually been reduced to a firing center, and the military power of the umbrella company has been transferred to the war-torn African continent, and it is cultivating a spokesman for interests in Somalia.
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After accompanying Sister Zhi's mother and daughter in the hospital for a week, Xiao Jingshu, who has undergone a complete physical examination, can finally be discharged from the hospital.
On 22 June, Wang Siyu and Wang Chao, responsible persons of the US Imperialist Umbrella Company, came to Los Angeles to take Lin Cheng and his family to live at the Monteson Ranch.