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Claire pressed, "What about a year from now?"

Simon glanced at Miss C, who had hugged his arm and stuck it up, and shook his head: "I don't know either."

Seeing that her boss didn't object to her closeness, Claire didn't pursue her anymore, her light blue eyes narrowed slightly, her body gently rubbed against the man's body, her red lips parted slightly, and a small white hand boldly lowered Explore.

Girl A, who sat quietly by the side and looked at all this, felt her cheeks getting slightly hot. Seeing that the two were getting closer and closer, she finally couldn't help getting up and said, "Boss, I'm going to rest first."

"Don't go."

Simon hadn't spoken yet, but it was Claire who spoke, and then whispered something in the man's ear.

In the quiet living room late at night, Miss C's voice was actually very clear. Hearing Claire reveal some of her most intimate things, Miss A was like a deer caught in a trap, her face was flushed, and she was a little confused for a while. measures.

Simon thoughtfully interrupted Claire without waiting for her to finish speaking, patted her side with a gentle smile, and said to Alison, "Come here."

Having heard similar tone from men, Alison didn't want to be like those women, but found that her body didn't listen at all.

It was as if under some spell called obedience.

He came to sit next to Simon, obediently took the coffee cup handed over by the man and put it on the tea table, glanced at Claire who was already lying down on the other side, and his breathing became more and more rapid.

The coffee cup in Simon's hand was taken away by girl A, and he grabbed Alison's chin and was about to kiss it, when he suddenly remembered something and asked, "Where is Alice?"

Both girls are a stagnation.

Simon only looked at Girl A's expression and understood instantly, but he just smiled and didn't stop his movements.

I came to Simon's villa in Woodside with the two girls from AC. The housekeeper didn't get along with them too much, and went directly upstairs to the master bedroom to wait for Simon's return.

The fatigue accumulated from days of high-intensity work was not completely relieved by the afternoon maintenance and rest. After taking a bath again, he lay alone on the man's big bed and read magazines, and fell asleep without knowing it.

A very relaxing deep sleep.

When I woke up again, the magazine from last night was still at hand, but there was no trace of the man on the big bed.

The curtains were not drawn last night, the bright sunlight had slanted into the bedroom, the windows were still opened, and the fresh mountain air made people feel refreshed.

The mood is inexplicably not happy at all.

Especially when I went downstairs, I saw a guy who was eating breakfast in the restaurant and reading the newspaper, and the beautiful silk scarves that matched the necks of the two AC girls.

Damn guy!

So he didn't even respond to the man's good morning greeting.

He sat down at the dining table with a cold and pretty face, feeling that he would be more proud of himself, and quickly ate breakfast as if nothing had happened, chatted with him about the company as if nothing had happened, and rushed to the company with him as if nothing had happened.

I don't care!

Because it is an ad hoc meeting, there is not much preparation in advance, and the meeting on the priority of Eaglet products is more inclined to the nature of free discussion.

Everyone was so busy that the meeting lasted just over half an hour and Simon's last request was the Big Three of Jeff Bezos, Carol Bartz and Tim Berners-Lee and being brought into the meeting by Simon himself Each of the housekeepers in the office must submit a handwritten priority report to him every month, detailing the solutions to deal with priority conflicts in the development and decision-making process of various businesses under Eaglet.

At the end of this meeting, Simon rushed to the Cisco headquarters in San Jose to discuss some matters with John Chambers, and boarded a plane to New York near noon.On the east coast, after taking over the entire USA TV network, Daenerys Entertainment's TV business also needs to make corresponding adjustments.

As January 1 approaches, it will be the first anniversary of Bill Clinton's inauguration.

At this stage, Bill Clinton's foundation in the political circle is far inferior to that of George Bush in the previous term. Therefore, the White House has been troubled by big and small things this year, which can be described as a state of desperation.

In order to get a good start on his second idea of ​​governing and boost morale, the White House turned its attention to the Internet industry. After all, the "Information Superhighway Act" is the most important bill since Clinton took office.

Therefore, after coordinating with Silicon Valley, on January 1, before the annual financial report that the outside world pays more attention to, Eaglet released a "19 Global World Wide Web User Report" in advance, and the White House followed up immediately. The rapid development of the Internet industry in the past year has been exaggerated for its own achievements.

报告显示，截止1993年12月31日，全球万维网接入用户数量已经达到7300万，覆盖网民规模1亿1600万。

Among them, the number of World Wide Web users in the United States alone reached 4600 million, covering 7500 million Internet users.

Japan has the second largest number of World Wide Web users after the United States at 530 million

No.3 is Germany, 380 million.

The UK ranks fourth with 290 million users.

Canada, next to the United States, has the fifth largest number of users at 260 million.

Australia, where the Westeros system is mainly operated, also has 150 million World Wide Web users, ranking No.9 behind France, Italy and Spain.Based on Australia's total population of only 1700 million, the popularity of the World Wide Web in this country is as high as 14%, second only to Canada's 15% and the United States' 28%.

Compared with 1992, the number of World Wide Web users in the United States increased by 1993% in 64, and the growth rate of World Wide Web users in key overseas countries generally exceeded 100%.

The report also predicts that in 1994, the increase in the number of World Wide Web users in the United States will still reach more than 50%.Overseas countries such as Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom have relatively low popularity of the World Wide Web. Against the background of the rapid rise of the Internet industry, the number of World Wide Web users in these countries will still maintain an annual growth rate of more than 1994% in 100.

Therefore, the number of World Wide Web users worldwide is expected to reach 1994 million by the end of 1.2, covering more than 2 million Internet users.

The release of this report and the official exaggeration of the rapid development of the Internet industry in the past year, the most direct consequence is to trigger another collective surge in Nasdaq technology stocks.

Only on January 1th, Cisco’s stock price rose by 19% at the close of the afternoon, and its market value officially broke through the 3.9 billion US dollar mark, becoming the first Internet company among many emerging technology companies to break through the 500 billion US dollar market value.

Immediately afterwards, on January 1, after three consecutive days of rising stock prices, AOL's stock price also broke through the $21 billion mark.

As of the close on January 1, Cisco's total market value reached 21 billion US dollars, and AOL's market value was also fixed at a high of 536 billion US dollars.The stock prices of other new technology companies such as Microsoft, Intel, and Oracle have hit new highs one after another. Even IBM, which has been in trouble in recent years, after the new CEO Gerstner who took office last year, has continued to reform for more than half a year. Dongfeng broke through the $515 billion mark.

On the one hand, the madness of technology stocks has attracted more investors into the Nasdaq market. On the other hand, many self-proclaimed sober investors believe that the technology stock market is overheated. Both Cisco and AOL have exceeded 500 billion in market value. There are obvious bubble costs in the market value of leading companies in the US dollar.

The annual financial reports of each company will be released one after another in the next two months, but the capital market can basically make a rough estimate based on the financial data of the company in the past quarters.The high growth rate of new technology companies such as Cisco and America Online is beyond doubt. However, the market value of Cisco and America Online exceeds US$500 billion, which in the eyes of many people is too exaggerated.

截止1月21日收盘，美国股市所有上市公司中仅仅只有4家企业市值突破了500亿美元，思科和美国在线市值仅次于排行No.1的通用电气和No.2的美国食品巨头菲利普莫里斯公司，两家公司市值分别为762亿美元和553亿美元。

In contrast, whether it is General Electric or Philip Morris, the revenue volume is ten times that of Cisco and AOL. Even the net profits of the two companies in the last fiscal year were US$46 billion and US$59 billion respectively. It is comparable to Cisco's revenue in 1993.

诸如通用汽车和福特汽车这些年营收超过千亿美元的老牌重工巨无霸，截止1月21日收盘时的市值更是分别只有371亿美元和295亿美元。另外两家长期以来一直眉来眼去寻求合并的能源巨头埃克森公司和美孚公司，1月21日收盘市值分别也只有436亿美元和353亿美元。

Wal-Mart, which supported the five super-rich Walton family, has a market value of only 451 billion US dollars.

At the beginning of 1994, there were still no companies with a market value of 500 billion US dollars in the United States. 10 billion US dollars is a threshold for major corporate giants.It took another company a century to break through the threshold, but now it is easily passed by two emerging high-tech companies that have only been established for about [-] years. How can it not be questioned?

Therefore, after the market capitalization of Cisco and AOL both broke through the $500 billion mark, many hedge funds on Wall Street began to establish targeted stock short positions, betting that the stock prices of Cisco and AOL will undergo a sharp correction in the next few months. The dot is the date of the two companies' annual earnings releases.

The capital shorting Cisco and AOL believes that as the two companies are unable to match the release of their high market capitalization financial report data, the capital market will calm down again, and there will be a selling trend that depresses the stock price.

As of the close on January 1, in just a few days, the short positions against Cisco and America Online exceeded $21 billion, and the total short position in the entire Nasdaq technology stock market reached $60 billion. level, and it is expected to continue to increase next week.

Equity hedging is a zero-sum game.

A total of $200 billion in short positions across Nasdaq's vast array of tech stocks naturally implies an equally sized long position.

Cersei Fund Management, a subsidiary of Cersei Capital, has recently quietly increased the size of its hedge fund to US$50 billion, with US$200 billion in short contracts for technology stocks, and only Cersei Fund Management has undertaken one-third of it generously. , reaching $70 billion.

It's not that Cersei Capital doesn't want to take more, but there is also no shortage of other long capitals in the market who are optimistic about the prospects of technology stocks.

Stock hedging requires capital to first borrow a certain percentage of stocks as asset collateral.

Even, in order to facilitate many hedge funds to establish short positions specifically targeting Cisco, AOL and other technology companies, Westeros and other closely related holding capital have also generously lent their own technology stocks.As long as the commission is high enough, I will give you as much as you dare to borrow.

Chapter 590 No suspense (repair)

As an Oscar outpost, this year's 51st Golden Globe Awards will be held on Saturday, January 1.

Simon returned from New York with Janet on Friday. As usual, he did not plan to attend the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony. He only planned to attend the after-party organized by Eaglet after the ceremony.

This year's Golden Globe Awards, including the upcoming Oscars, actually don't have much suspense.

"Schindler's List," directed by Steven Spielberg, is definitely the big winner this awards season.

Unstoppable.

With the passing of the popular schedule at the end of the year, the stamina of blockbusters has gradually faded.

As of January 1th, the three major blockbusters in the schedule at the end of last year, "The Lion King" was released for the ninth week, with a single-week drop of 20%, and another $9 million in box office, with a cumulative box office of $27 million, a distance of $1011 million. There is only a gap of 2 million U.S. dollars, and the total box office in North America is expected to be around 7953 million U.S. dollars.

Moreover, the box office performance of "The Lion King" in overseas markets is even more eye-catching. At present, when many overseas box office has not yet opened, the cumulative overseas box office of this 3D animation film has surpassed that of North America, reaching 3.6 million US dollars.Including North America, the film's global box office has exceeded 6.7 million US dollars, and the industry generally predicts that the film's global total box office will be between 8 million and 9 million US dollars.

Daenerys Entertainment was able to net more than $2 million from The Lion King just by box office receipts.The great success of the second 3D animated film also completely broke Disney's monopoly on animated films and basically consolidated Daenerys Entertainment's position in the Hollywood animation industry. One of the most anticipated movies.

上映第8周的《碟中谍》以37%的单周跌幅继续进账551万美元，累计票房1亿7096万美元，北美总票房基本锁定1.8亿美元。《碟中谍》的海外票房同样超过北美本土，近期已经达到2.3亿美元，全球累计4.1亿美元。

The worldwide success has made Nicolas Cage, the leading actor of "Mission: Impossible", another super first-line actor in Hollywood.

In recent years, Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix, Brad Pitt, Nicolas Cage and a large number of new-generation male stars have risen one after another relying on the DC movie universe and other blockbuster films. Tom, who was the most popular in the 80s, Cruise's popularity began to fade rapidly, and the resources available to him became less and less. For many high-quality projects recently, the studio's first choice began to tend to the rising star in recent years.

DC电影宇宙影片《钢骨》在1月7日到1月13日节后第一个票房周跌幅达到37%，进账3552万美元，1月14日到1月20日一周跌幅收窄至31%，再收2451万美元。上映4周，《钢骨》累计票房1亿9263万美元。

According to the box office base of "Steel Bone" in the fourth week and the current decline trend, the final box office of the film is about 2.6 million US dollars, surpassing "The Flash", and the possibility of hitting 3 million is slim.

The popularity of blockbusters has subsided, and the attention of many films during the awards season has begun to increase significantly.

As the biggest hit of this awards season, "Schindler's List" has recently begun to expand its screening scale. From January 1th to January 14th, the number of screens for "Schindler's List" increased to 1, and the box office in a single week The income was 20 million U.S. dollars, and the average museum is still as high as 256 U.S. dollars.

Six weeks after the filming started, the cumulative box office of "Schindler's List" has reached 1565 million U.S. dollars without a large-scale release.

Point Dume Manor.

In the restaurant of the Shell Villa, the atmosphere during dinner was very lively, but it was a bit yin and yang, and this was the situation when all the maids were sent out.

At the dinner table, Janet was next to Simon as usual.On the opposite side are Veronica and Jennifer, and between the two women is Melbourne, who has been completely weaned. The little guy is facing his parents, and he looks very well-behaved. He never climbed up the dining table or threw out the dishes. Listening to loud behaviors, as for picky eating, that is not allowed.

Such small details are the result of forced reversal by the Simon couple.

During this period, Simon also found that Jennifer is definitely more suitable for raising children than Veronica. Except for the two little ones, the female assistant also takes good care of Melbourne, and she will not indulge like Veronica, and is always very patient It carefully guides the little ones on what to do and what not to do, and recently started some enlightenment education, various picture building blocks and the like, which can obviously improve children's cognitive ability without deliberate effort.

It can be seen that Veronica is a little disappointed by this.

Simon didn’t dare to continue to let her take Melbourne with her. Veronica’s attitude towards the little guy was completely "baby wants a star, okay Nana help you pick one". If things go on like this, the child will definitely become a super dude.

While the Golden Globes are being broadcast live on TVs in the dining room, the conversation is about building a private school in Malibu for the little ones.

During this time, the female assistant has already found several education experts, and has also begun to choose the location of the school.

Compared with university education, Simon actually pays more attention to elementary and advanced education, because this is the most critical stage for cultivating children's thinking, cognitive ability and even personal character. As long as certain key character qualities are confirmed before adulthood, university is not so important.

On the TV screen, "Schindler's List" successfully won another award for best screenplay. Simon just glanced at it casually, retracted his attention and said to the female assistant: "It's not just the management children of the Westeros system, the school is built It can also be opened to the entire Los Angeles area later, and I hope that Moore will have a larger social circle in the future."

The female assistant nodded.

Janet said, "It's not good if it's too big. There's no need for Moore to know people he doesn't need to deal with."

The little guy on the opposite side heard his parents mentioning himself, raised his little head in doubt, and then habitually looked at Veronica beside him.

Veronica wiped the corners of the little guy's mouth, and explained in an intimate tone, "Mom and Dad are discussing Momo's schooling."

The little guy obviously had no idea about going to school. Hearing what Veronica said, he pushed the small bowl in front of him, expressing that he didn't want to eat pumpkin porridge, and secretly asked Veronica for chocolate.

Was discovered.

Janet stared over: "No chocolate, do you want a spanking?"

I was really beaten by my own mother.

vivid memory.

The little guy pursed his mouth, but didn't dare to cry. Veronica glanced at Janet helplessly, and didn't dare to coax her. According to past experience, the child's father would often be called after speaking.

"You're scaring Mel."

Simon didn't say anything, but the female assistant gave Janet a blank look. Saying so, she simply hugged the little guy on her lap and comforted her while feeding herself. Learn to brush your teeth yourself.

As the dinner drew to a close, so did the Golden Globe Awards ceremony on the wall-mounted TV.

"The Lion King" took home Best Picture, Musical Comedy, and Spielberg for Best Director. .

After dinner, the female assistant gave the child to Veronica, and then asked Janet who was beside Simon to watch the tableware together. Janet was reluctant, saying that this should be a servant's business, and she was stared at by Simon. Reluctantly getting up, the sound of broken porcelain was soon heard in the kitchen.

The voice of the female assistant followed, and she patiently said that it was okay, you can buy a new one tomorrow.

Then there was Janet complaining non-stop, it was too hard to do housework when she was busy earning money to support her family.

Simon just smiled and sat at the dining table, listening to the occasional small dispute between the two women, and continued to watch the entire awards ceremony. "Schindler's List" finally won the best film award in the drama category without any suspense.

After packing up the tableware and coming out, Janet immediately threw herself into Simon's arms, stretched out her index finger pitifully, expressing that she had just been scratched by a fragment of a porcelain plate.

Simon took a look, only a light red mark, not even broken skin, caught a woman's little hand and kissed that index finger, said: "I'll disinfect it for you, it will be fine soon."

Janet smiled and stretched out her index finger: "Kiss again?"

Simon raised his hand and opened it: "Don't be greedy."

Janet narrowed her eyes and posted it: "Kiss again, and I will kiss you for you tonight."

The female assistant walked out of the kitchen, just in time to hear some of Janet's wrong words, and teased: "Simon is not used to waiting too late, why don't you cash in now."

Janet immediately grabbed Simon's big hand and kissed it several times in a row, then brought her index finger closer.

Simon had to kiss again.

The female assistant looked at Janet and asked Simon, "Do you want Neil to prepare the car?"