Chapter 1159: Storm eve
Eric asked: "Which city do you think is right?"
"Chicago," Paul Ebbert apparently prepared, replied: "Like Manchester, Chicago is also an industrialized city. At the same time, due to the gradual decline of heavy industry, the unemployment rate has increased, and the city's class differentiation is very serious. A large number of poor people."
"Then Chicago," Eric nodded and said: "In addition, on the script, I hope that this story will have a more intense drama conflict and a strong contrast between morality and reality. So you need Focusing on highlighting the contradictory personality of most of the characters in the script, the audience has a complex emotion that is hateful and very pitiful, even cute.
The former "Shameless", the biggest feeling for Eric is that even if life is a shit, it is worthwhile to continue to persist, but after persistence, life is still a shit.
Speaking of it, most of the TV shows after the showtime TV show style are basically the same.
Numerous men and women are blindfolded in the scenes or in the flamboyant or violent life, seemingly enviable, but always on the verge of collapse, occasionally some calm and warm, but it indicates that a bigger collapse is coming. The audience was killed in the process of being abused, but they could not stop.
Although one-time cut off the showtime program of Showtime TV's original three TV series, Eric is only planning to let this TV station launch the TV series "Shameless", and other time will be selected by a batch of specially selected movie content. filling.
The main work of Showtime in the second half of the year was to re-arrange the entire TV program schedule and develop a new marketing plan.
After Eric discussed with Paul Ebert, the screenwriter of Shameless, the project was formally confirmed.
Showtime's production team and Paul Ebert traveled to Chicago in the next few days to begin field visits to the script's changes and pick the right set of scenes. The selection of the series was also held in New York and Los Angeles.
On the other hand, although the negotiations with Eric are not happy, the door classmates, like Eric’s imagination, are not willing to give up the equity subscription contract without any gain. Therefore, Microsoft did not immediately turn to Yahoo, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who has been designated as Gates' successor, quickly took over the negotiations and began to contact Yahoo.
However, although both sides have kept a low profile, with the arrival of July, the news that Microsoft is about to acquire a 30% stake in Yahoo has spread rapidly and has become the hottest topic in the new technology field that has entered the final stage of madness.
The industry is not clear about the details of the long-term equity subscription contract, but it is also roughly speculative.
Moreover, a considerable number of media will focus on this topic on whether the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission will approve the acquisition. After all, Microsoft's monopoly on the desktop operating system is already very obvious. Yahoo is the largest market share in the emerging Internet industry. If the industry giants across these two fields make strong alliances, it will definitely form a stronger monopoly power.
Although US Department of Justice officials soon said at a press conference that they would closely follow the possible transactions between Microsoft and Yahoo’s two new technology giants, even intervening or stopping when necessary, but with AOL and Time Warner’s success. The precedent for the merger is ahead. Although Microsoft has been carrying a series of antitrust investigations, the industry generally believes that the transaction between Microsoft and Yahoo is likely to happen.
As a result, the relevant speculation was quickly reflected in the stock prices of the two giants.
Corporate mergers usually have a very obvious pattern. Once the news of an acquisition may come out, the stock price of the party that initiated the acquisition tends to fall, and the stock price of the acquired company will basically rise.
However, due to the most turbulent wave of new technology, Microsoft's share price has not fallen, but the growth rate has slowed significantly, but Yahoo's share price has been rapidly increased.
In the first week of July, from five days of July 5 to July 9, Yahoo’s share price continued to rise by 27% in five days, and the market value broke through $182.5 billion before the opening on July 5. The 200 billion mark eventually reached $231.7 billion.
In comparison, Microsoft's share price rose by only 3.9% in the same week. But in the end, the market value of 588 billion US dollars will continue to be followed by Cisco.
At the same time, the Nasdaq index reached a high of 4911 points when it closed on July 9.
As long as there is no accident, the Nasdaq is destined to break the 5000 mark next week.
In the face of the madness of the entire technology stock market, although some investors are conscious of the temptation to start selling off, it is clear that most of the investors in the market have completely lost their minds.
After all, just like Yahoo's stock price, investing 100 million US dollars, it only takes a week, 27% of the stock price increase is enough to bring investors a huge profit of 27 million US dollars, which may not be able to be used in a year or even a few years. The realized profit target can only be achieved in one week. How can investors who are completely immersed in the technology stock bubble unable to extricate themselves may be willing to give up.
Even more than just professional investors, due to the lure of huge stock profits in the new technology market, in recent months, the United States has clearly seen a wave of popular stock trading, which is rare in the history of North America.
You know, although most middle-class Americans can be regarded as investors, because of the different consumption patterns of Americans, Americans hold very little cash in their hands. Their investment is basically through the indirect mode of pensions. investment.
Under normal circumstances, only the wealthy class with excess cash in hand will make a separate financial investment. But now, countless ordinary Americans have begun to raise funds in various ways, and then they have no choice but to enter the Nasdaq stock market. Many rich people have used investment leverage to maximize their profits. The scale of its own capital has expanded.
Due to the rapid increase in the trading activity of the Nasdaq market, the clover fund accelerated the huge amount of 3.36 billion US dollars in the first week of July. The departure of more than 3.3 billion US dollars did not cause any market. Boao, the discretionary order of the trading studio was quickly digested by the increasingly active demand of the entire market in the first place.
There are always people in the vast world of hustle and bustle who can quietly immerse themselves in their own small world.
Washington DC.
A Gulfstream V without any logo slipped on a private airport on the outskirts of Washington on the last day of June.
Two of them, who were ordinary in appearance or even invisible to the characteristics of Russian girls, took the plane and personally moved a whole set of expensive spy equipment in the cabin to the small container truck that had been prepared in advance on the airport runway. Then drive away silently.
During the whole process, no one in the airport was arranged to disturb the work of the two women until the truck left the airport. A responsible person of the Firefly Group Washington, DC, with several assistants, will be the Gulfstream V passenger aircraft on the airport runway. Dragged into the hangar to seal up, and sent two additional security guards.
More than an hour later, the truck went to the Kalorama rich area not far from the northwest of downtown Washington, and immediately drove into a house surrounded by road trees. The Kaloma rich area is a gathering place for many wealthy politicians, and the Jackson family happens to live nearby.
Carefully inspected the inside and outside of the manor, the two women began to arrange a variety of equipment. In the evening, in the study room on the second floor of the villa, the eavesdropping device intercepted and admitted the first call made by Judge Thomas Jackson.
Mobile phone tapping usually has a built-in bug, a copy SIM card, and a close-up use of the walkie-talkie mode, but the highest-end is the mobile phone signal that intercepts the target directly from the communication base station. This is also the eavesdropping mode commonly used by professional spy agencies.
Of course, in the face of hundreds of thousands of dollars of eavesdropping equipment, this kind of eavesdropping is completely unpredictable for ordinary people, but in the face of the financially powerful Firefly Group, there is absolutely no obstacle.
Some time Eric was eavesdropped, it replaced the CDMA networked BlackBerry with two-way encryption and more difficult to crack. However, a poor middle-aged judge obviously does not have this kind of vigilance, but instead uses the GSM mobile phone that is currently the most popular and most vulnerable to similar eavesdropping.
Therefore, the twins have begun to easily record the target mobile communication without even using the more dangerous proximity contact.
Over the next three days, the twins quickly and accurately identified the daily behavior of the Thomas Jackson family.
On the third night of the night, an ordinary Ford SUV was docked in front of another apartment in Calorama. The two nearby street lights were 'just right' broken, and had not had time to repair, which also made the Jackson home without moon at the beginning of the month. It looked unusually dim.
Two silent figures skillfully opened the locked door, accurately released the gasification tranquilizer into the bedroom of several residents, and then started their own work.
Middle-aged judges' watches, mobile phones and other personal belongings were unknowingly replaced. The living room, study, bedroom and other places were installed with hidden cameras. Even a few pairs of leather shoes were cut and implanted with a bug.
Finally, after the transformation of several cars in the Jackson garage, the two figures in the dark quietly left.
So, in the days that followed, the words and actions of the Jackson family were clearly recorded by the other electronic instruments in another room in Calorama.
The twins also skillfully changed a few different cars, tracking Thomas Jackson around for more than twelve hours a day, quietly glimpsing the middle-aged judge’s generosity in the courtroom, cursing a colleague in the bathroom, at home Perfuse your wife and flirt with your lover on the phone...
In the chaotic information flow, the twins finally captured the information predicted by Eric on the ninth day of the monitoring. The head of a lobbying company in Washington conducted several trials of Thomas Jackson for two consecutive days. Then, the two privately Meeting in an underground car park, the camera placed in the Jackson car by the twins perfectly recorded a 16-minute meeting.
After seeing the video, Eric, who had been worried about the two women’s tracks, immediately told the twins to close their hands.
All the equipment installed next to Thomas Jackson was still systematically taken back, and the cars used in recent days were dismantled and destroyed, and the twins re-boarded the Gulfstream V. The whole process was like never Appeared in Washington.
The twins returned to Los Angeles, and the time was already July 12 and another Monday.
Gulfstream V landed at Ventura Airport, and Eric was already standing on the runway of the airport. He watched the twins come down from the plane and was relieved. He and the sisters hugged and laughed. I still don’t do this kind of thing. I didn’t clean it in the manor for two weeks. I found out that there was a layer of dust in the kitchen yesterday, which is really uncomfortable.”
Natasha was embarrassed to escape Eric's hug and whispered: "Master, let's go back and clean up."
"First take a few days off," Eric shook his head. "I can just overcome my cleanliness a little."
"Ok."
After Eric finished, he took Natasha’s little hand and said, “Let’s go home with me first.”
Natasha earned Eric’s hand and shook her head: “Master, something on the plane, we need to do it ourselves.”
"Can't you die tomorrow?"
"Mr. Cromwell said no."
"Okay," Eric said helplessly. "That I am waiting for you."
So it was a little busy, back to the sharp corner manor, time is already late.
In the evening, eating dinner prepared by twins, watching even the twins who did not intend to ask him how to deal with the video, Eric even had a very strange feeling.
So I checked it that night and decided that the girl in my arms was a real person, not a machine.
Eric did not make any further arrangements as he got the information he wanted and entered this most critical week. It is waiting for the continued development of this matter.
On Monday, the Nasdaq index, which ended last Thursday at 4911, continued to rise. For the next five consecutive days, there was no sign of a complete collapse in the Nasdaq market.
Finally, on July 16, when the week ended, the Nasdaq index finally rushed to a high of 5056 points, officially breaking through the 5000 mark.
After the close of the day, after real-time statistics, the market value of the entire firefly system company has reached a level that makes many people marvel.
Among them, Cisco's market value finally settled at 611.5 billion US dollars, successfully surpassed Microsoft, becoming the No. 1 super company in the Nasdaq market and even the global market.
Immediately thereafter, Yahoo’s market capitalization reached $257.9 billion.
The market value of Nokia listed on multiple trading markets in Europe and North America has also exceeded 200 billion US dollars, with a combined market value of 221.7 billion US dollars.
The most surprising thing is Qualcomm. Two years ago, there were only tens of billions of dollars worth of Qualcomm. At this time, it reached the peak of 83.6 billion US dollars, which made everyone very surprised and had to admire Eric again. Investing in the eyes.
In addition, the market value of the technology companies such as Amazon and Sprint, which are invested by fireflies in heavy stores, have also reached new highs.
Affected by the surge in share prices of this series of technology companies, Eric’s personal life eventually reached an unprecedented $625 billion.