According to the trend of the Nasdaq in the next few years, Eric's stock investment in the last two years can be at least five times the return if it is cashed out at the right time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After buying $2 billion in Nasdaq IT stocks last year, Eric plans to invest another $4 billion this year and next year when the Nasdaq index is below 2,000 points, and start cashing out in batches after the Nasdaq index reaches 3,000 points.

Compared with this plan, foreign exchange speculation in the Southeast Asian economic crisis, which has been operated for more than half a year, may only be able to obtain less than twice the return, which is not so cost-effective, and if too much money is pressed on this matter, it will definitely delay the last opportunity to buy IT stocks at the right price.

At the same time, Eric does not want to make too much noise, being targeted by Southeast Asian countries, whether it is Firefly Group or Firefly Investment, it will be to develop business locally in the future. Therefore, he took out $300 million this time, purely to make a lot of fun and make pocket money or something, but the girl has wanted to buy a Boeing 777 for a long time.

Chris also knows about Eric's situation, and he doesn't think $300 million is too little.

However, after this period of observation, Chris took the Southeast Asian economic crisis as an opportunity, saying: "I mortgaged a part of my equity in the company and borrowed $300 million from Chase Bank. On Emily's side, their family is also willing to give $100 million, and everyone together is $700 million. ”

"$700 million, this figure is quite a coincidence," Eric said with a smile, Chris holds 3% of the shares of Firefly Investment, according to the current asset scale of Firefly Investment, the value has exceeded $1 billion, and the mortgage of shares, Chris also mentioned to Eric on the phone in advance, Eric does not feel that there is anything wrong, even if Chris loses all the $300 million, the loss of 1% of the equity will not have any substantial impact on the Firefly Group. What's more, this time it's definitely just a game to earn more and earn less.

As for the coincidence, it is because Eric originally bet on oil futures for the Kuwaiti war, and the size of the capital was about 700 million US dollars.

Chris immediately remembered the time when he and his father thought Eric was crazy, but the end result was enough to make people crazy.

Smiling, Chris said, "We definitely won't be able to make such crazy gains this time." According to the information I have now, after this tentative attack, it will take three months for international investors to establish short positions, and the second launch should be around July. In three months, everyone is rushing to open positions, and due to competitive factors, the position leverage will only get lower and lower, and it would be good for us to finally get double the gain. ”

Although Chris has been busy with industrial investment in recent years, from this short paragraph, Eric knows that Chris has obviously not lost the professional level of his top student in the finance department. In my memory, the Asian financial crisis officially broke out on a large scale in July.

"It doesn't really matter how much money you can get back, but I still pay more attention to the impact of this on the federal economy," Eric continued: "Once the emerging economies of Asia are destroyed as they were in the seventies and eighties, and the European economy has not yet recovered, and a lot of hot money will flow to the North American market, it is conceivable that the North American stock market will experience another super bull market." ”

Chris nodded, thought for a moment and said, "Eric, although I know you have a detailed plan in mind, I still want to remind you not to hesitate when it is time to cash out. In my opinion, the NASDAQ market is already in a bubble trend, just like Microsoft, which had an annual net profit of only $2.1 billion last year, but now its market value has risen to $120 billion, which is too much overestimated. There is no limit to the rise and fall of the North American stock market, and if you let it go late, an investment of $6 billion may only take one day to turn from a huge profit to a large loss. ”

"In my opinion, Microsoft's stock price is far from reaching its limit," Eric said, adding solemnly, "but don't worry, Chris, you know I'm not the kind of person who can be lost in greed." ”

"yes," Chris nodded, and suddenly smiled again, "Speaking of which, I attended a house party hosted by Steve Forbes last week, and I got some data from him on this year's Forbes rich list, and I want to know how much money you have now?"

Forbes magazine usually publishes the new year's rich list in March, and Eric also subscribes to this magazine, he remembers that this issue should be released next Monday, but before that, there has been a lot of discussion around the Forbes rich list in major financial media, and Eric can learn more or less about it even if he doesn't pay special attention.

Seeing Chris's rare sale, Eric smiled: "I'm curious, what does Forbes assess your net worth?"

"$1.1 billion is nowhere near yours. ”

Chris shrugged, but he was already very satisfied, from the beginning of Morgan Stanley as an ordinary analyst to now, he has accumulated a net worth of more than $1 billion in more than six years, and he is definitely the highest-paid fund manager in North America. There are many large family investment funds in North America that are similar to Firefly Investment, and although the managers of these funds have good annual salaries, very few have access to equity. Moreover, Chris also knows that although Eric rarely takes care of the affairs of Firefly Investment, he will always be the key to the current scale of Firefly Investment, and he is just an executor. Without Eric's keen selection of Cisco, AOL, Nokia and other companies, and the single-handedly leading establishment of Yahoo Networks, Firefly Investment would not have developed so rapidly.

Thinking of this, Chris picked up the coffee in front of him, took a few sips, and said, "Forget it, you better read Forbes magazine by yourself next week, leave you some surprises, I should almost go back." ”

Today is Thursday, a weekday, Chris actually flew over from San Francisco, neither of them is idle, Eric is not a quiet person, and is about to get up to see Chris leave, but see that Chris did not move, but took out an envelope from his handbag and handed it over.

"What is this?" Eric asked curiously, seeing that the envelope was not sealed, he opened it casually, and found that it was an invitation card, a wedding invitation, and glanced at it, Eric raised his head with a smile: "You and Emily are finally planning to get married?"

"Well," Chris's slightly smiling face was a little more inexplicably embarrassed, and he stretched out his hand and gestured indiscriminately, "My dad and Emily's parents have been urging for a long time, and the most important thing is ...... Emily, is now more than a month pregnant. ”

"Wow, congratulations, you're going to be a dad," Eric looked at the invitation card again and said, "May 20th, well, good day, where are you going to have your wedding?"

"Maryland, Daddy's Farm," Chris said, with a hint of grievance, "you should know Emily's temperament, and she's been angry with me for the month since she found out she was pregnant, saying that I had delayed her work. However, now we can't find any reason to delay any longer, and neither my dad nor her parents will agree. ”

"It's just a premarital phobia, and it'll be fine after a while," Eric asked, putting away the invitation, and asked, "How's the wedding going, and who did you all invite?"

"My dad and her parents are in charge of this, you know, they're both retired, so there's a lot of time," Chris said. As for the guests, you are the first to receive the invitation, and we have not yet decided on the specific guest list. ”

Eric thought for a moment and said, "If you don't object, why don't you take this opportunity to call everyone over and get together." ”

Chris wondered, "Everyone?"

"Cisco's John Chambers, AOL's Steve Case, Nokia's Yoma Ollilah, Yahoo's Ian Gnier, and the Firefly Group, Katzenberg, Frank, Robert, ......" Eric said, "Normally, you don't get together like that, your wedding happens to be an opportunity, like last year's Yahoo Alliance conference, I actually always thought, everyone should get together once or twice a year." ”

"But wouldn't that be a little too ostentatious?"

Chris hesitated, if according to Eric's idea, this should be a big gathering of the top brass of the Firefly system, and this gathering must be more eye-catching than last year's opportunity to meet at the Yahoo annual meeting.

As a conglomerate that has suddenly risen in the last decade and has a pivotal position in the industry, the gathering of the management of all subsidiaries of Firefly System will definitely attract strong media attention.

Eric joked, "This is a marriage, I think for you, there must be only one time in your life, and it must be as lively as possible." Well, of course, you can go back and talk to Emily first. If you want to invite any Hollywood stars, just let me know, and I'll invite you to invite them. ”

"Then, okay, I'll talk to Emily tonight, but the star is forgotten," Chris didn't refuse, packed his briefcase, stood up, and said: "By the way, Joan and their side, Emily and I won't send invitations, you can take them to Maryland when the time comes, of course, if you want to bring a few more, I don't object." ”

"Don't worry, I'm not going to give you a chance to see the excitement," Eric laughed and punched Chris in the shoulder.

The two talked and laughed and walked out of the villa side by side.

Dropping Chris off at Santa Monica Airport, Eric went to Firefly Studios again, and after a closed test run, Casino Royale found out a little more detail that needed to be adjusted, and he's been working on it lately.

Working until seven o'clock in the afternoon, Eric got off work, but there was an extra girl in the car, Christina Aguilera.

There are a few ends in the film that involve Christina that need to be adjusted, and in the afternoon the girl assists in the dubbing of the studio in the post-production center. After Venice, the two never found much chance to get along, Christina gave a few small hints, and waited patiently until Eric got off work before leaving, and Eric unceremoniously brought it back.

I had dinner at a restaurant in Malibu, and it was already past eight o'clock when the two got home.

The petite Nizi went to great lengths to provoke Eric, and the two were entangled in the big bed in the bedroom, but Eric's cell phone rang unexpectedly.

Letting go of Christina in his arms, Eric picked up the phone on the bedside table and glanced at it, it was Chris calling.

Answering the phone, Eric casually put on a pajama and walked out.

Eric doesn't go too far to be wary of the women around him, all he does is keep them from giving them a chance to make mistakes, which is good for everyone. It was already early in the morning in New York time, and Chris called at this time, maybe something important, and Eric didn't plan to let Christina hear it.

Leaving the bedroom, Eric pushed open a small living room upstairs and walked all the way to the balcony, leaning against the railing to talk to Chris.

Chris didn't have anything important, just talked about the invitation to the management of the Firefly system to his wedding mentioned by Eric in the afternoon, and Emily had agreed, so she called Eric to tell him about the decision.

Eric chatted with Chris for a few words, and finally the microphone on the other side simply transferred to Emily's hand, and everyone talked about some details, Eric hung up the phone, feeling a little crying and laughing, and at the same time sympathized with Chris a little, Chris has flown a lot on the east and west coasts in recent days, and has just returned to New York, so late but has not rested, it seems that this time has been tossed by Emily.

A woman who is unexpectedly pregnant and suffers from premarital phobia has a strong personality, tsk, that scene is terrifying when you think about it.

After hanging up the phone, Eric went back to the bedroom, put the phone back on the bedside table, and looked at the queen bed.

Christina's small body was limply sunk in the big bed, her face was red, her eyes were glazed, and she looked like a doll that had been broken. Although he knew that this Nizi was pretending, Eric was still aroused, and reached over and pinched it with a little weight.

With a soft cry, Christina's small body immediately curled up into a shrimp, but she held Eric's big hand tightly in her arms, and the water in her eyes became heavier.

Reaching out to scoop up the girl, Eric lay down on the bed and said with a smile: "Now, sit up and move yourself." ”

……

Maybe it was because he was crazy last night, and Eric was woken up by Christina.

The curtains around the bedroom were automatically opened, and the bright sunlight was surging, so that Eric couldn't help but cover his eyes.

Christina held a newspaper in her hand, half-lying next to Eric, with a little excitement in her tone: "Eric, the latest weekly box office of "Titanic" is out, with a single-week box office of 22 million and a total box office of $469 million, breaking the "Star Wars" record, take a look." (To be continued.) )