Hollywood Hunter

When the U.S. stock closed on the afternoon of August 15, the first trading day of the official listing, Verizon's share price has surged 71% compared to the offering price of $10.75, closing at $1.838 billion. Based on a total of 3.973 billion shares after the IPO, Verizon's market capitalization shot up to $73 billion from $42.7 billion before the IPO.

The last trading day of the week.

Verizon's share price not only did not have a correction, but also rose 51% again under the capital market frenzy, quickly breaking through the $100 billion barrier, closing market capitalization as high as $110.9 billion, becoming another $100 billion market capitalization giant in Westeros.

In addition, the listing of Verizon once again strongly pulled the whole NASDAQ market up.

In just two days, the NASDAQ surpassed two '5000' records in one fell swoop.

First, the Nasdaq exceeded 5,000 points, and at the close of trading on Friday, the Nasdaq finally reached a high of 5,073 points.

At the same time, the U.S. stock market also gave birth to the first $500 billion market capitalization company, Ygritte, Friday afternoon market capitalization was set at $513.6 billion, from July 15 Ygritte market capitalization exceeded 400 billion, only a month later, once again showing the crazy state of the technology stock market.

In addition, Cisco, the world's largest networking equipment provider, also had a market capitalization of $436.5 billion at the end of the day, making it another $400 billion tech giant.

Cisco is actually the third.

Denise Entertainment, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, has recently and unexpectedly overtaken Cisco in market capitalization due to group performance and other factors, closing that afternoon with a market capitalization of $453.5 billion.

Across the Nasdaq sector, with the Nasdaq officially surpassing 5,000 points, the combined market capitalization of all listed companies on the Nasdaq market reached another record high of $5.96 trillion that day.

That's just six of the $100 billion or more in market capitalization companies that the Westeros system fully owns or has absolute control of, Igret ($513.6 billion), Cisco ($436.5 billion), America Online ($296.5 billion), Tinkerbelle ($263.7 billion), Verizon ($110.9 billion), and Nokia ($138.2 billion), which is listed simultaneously in both Europe and the United States. The combined market capitalization comes to $1.76 trillion, or 29.5% of the entire Nasdaq sector.

That's close to 30 percent!

And if you include Microsoft ($267.1 billion), Intel ($134.1 billion) and other technology giants that prefer to invest rather than control, or only tens of billions or billions of dollars of market capitalization of relatively small technology companies, the Westeros system of the entire Nasdaq accounted for a significant increase.

Even though the miraculous rise of the Westeros system over the years has repeatedly washed away the nerves of viewers has been too many people numb, when the relevant statistics along with the Verizon IPO and the Nasdaq exceeded 5,000 points have been released one after another, or triggered widespread concern around the world.

Inevitably, controversy arose amidst a great deal of wonder.

As well.

The more red-eyed and scrupulous the traditional power class in the United States is about the continued expansion of the Westeros system.

Washington.

After a busy week, Bill Clinton still could not rest after dinner, but summoned his White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta and campaign manager Chester Carville, two close aides to discuss the potential impact the Nasdaq hot topics of the last two days may have on his upcoming campaign sprint.

It's already Aug. 16, and the Democratic Party is about to hold its national convention in 10 days to formalize the party's nomination for the 1996 general election.

Clinton is already on the board.

After that, all of the final candidates from both parties will be finalized and the 1996 general election will be in its final stretch.

Although the current public support rate as high as 60%, Clinton still dare not take it lightly, after all, the history of the United States election in the early support rate lead finally be turned over to the case often occurs.

Looking at the long couch in front of the eyes of the Clintons, although sitting side by side but obviously distant, the White House chief of staff Leon Panetta handed over two identical documents, said: "Wright has just met with Joseph Schlapp this afternoon, this is a public relations plan that will be launched in the near future, the general public is most worried about the rise of the Internet will impact traditional industries. , reducing jobs, the Westeros system will launch a targeted campaign over the next few months, responding to public concerns with plenty of clear examples, and the document cites detailed data."

The rise of the Internet industry is arguably Clinton's most glaring achievement since taking office.

Only, this achievement was overshadowed by the fact that the Westeros system possessed too much interest in the Internet industry, even though the matter had little to do directly with Clinton, after all, before Clinton was elected in '92, the current series of new technology giants were already in that young man's layout.

However, as the election gets more and more heated, an emotionally susceptible public and his political opponents are not going to pay attention to that.

Simon Westeros became a trillion-dollar super-rich man during Clinton's tenure, and this gross concentration of wealth and the inequitable distribution of society it represents is clearly the fault of Mr. President.

Clinton was about to open his mouth when Hillary snapped, "That looks like a good plan, and it might help Bill's campaign a little, but that's obviously not the point, and Dole will only attack our relationship with Westeros. Too close."

"In that case," said Chester Carville, campaign manager on the other side of the aisle, "perhaps we should respond early and change our attitude toward the Westeros system, as we did with the passage of the Kassebaum-Kennedy bill."

To build momentum for the upcoming election, Clinton has intensively signed and passed several recent bills dealing with welfare reform, health care, and environmental protection, and the Kassebaum-Kennedy bill is a key one, ensuring that the federal public will still have health insurance if they change jobs or are briefly unemployed.

Chester Carville specifically mentions this bill mainly because it was actually 'stolen' from the Republicans by Clinton, originally introduced by two Republican Congressmen, Nancy Kassebaum and Ted Kennedy, because it would have significantly increased federal health care spending, which Clinton initially disagreed with, and Congress The bill was also fraught with controversy, and was therefore stalled for a time.

However, when it was learned that the Republican Party was recently restarting the push for the bill, considering the pros and cons, in order to prevent the Republican Party from gaining leverage in the upcoming election campaign, Clinton pre-emptively and quickly signed the bill by presidential executive order, directly to crush the Republican Party's intention.

Chester Carville said so, the meaning is clear.

In the next election battle, the Republican side will definitely take advantage of the good relationship between the White House and the Westeros system, if you don't want to get into a passive situation, then the best way is to take the lead to change your attitude and get tough on the Westeros system.

After Carville finished speaking, Clinton was deliberating, only to hear Hillary next to him already snapping, "That's a good idea, Chester, do you have any specific ideas?"

Clinton frowned slightly, but looked across at the campaign manager.

Pretending not to notice the inappropriateness of the First Lady's continuous snapping, Chester Carville looked at Mr. President, got permission from his eyes, and said, "Take a shot at Ygritte and launch an antitrust investigation, after all, the company's monopolistic tendencies are too obvious, and, as the highest market capitalization company in the Commonwealth, launching an investigation of Ygritte would also have the greatest impact in the shortest amount of time! ."

Regarding the monopoly of Ygritte, as the company went public and stormed to the number one position in the market capitalization of American companies, there are numerous lawsuits and disputes related to it, only that it had been deliberately ignored by the Washington side before.

Now, if an investigation is to be launched, all sorts of reasons are readily available.

This time, before the presidential couple had even opened their mouths, Leon Panetta had said, "Chester, so have you considered what effect this might have on the Nasdaq stock market?"

With the Nasdaq breaking through 5,000, the extent of the bubble in the tech stock market is getting worse.

At this point in time, taking the liberty of launching an antitrust investigation into Ygritte could very well lead to the collapse of the Nasdaq market.

If this happens, the most glittering achievements of Clinton's first term could go up in smoke in the coming months. Most importantly, the collapse of technology stocks, inevitably suffered huge losses on Wall Street and Silicon Valley and even the world's investors, will be tilted to the White House side of the anger.

Such a result, no one can bear.

Located in the West Wing of the White House, the atmosphere in this sitting room was a bit silent.

Everyone remembered that in the first half of the year, Simon Westeros tried to suppress the excessive madness of the Nasdaq through continuous reduction of holdings and some other actions, however, in the face of strong pressure from all sides, even this super-rich man with trillions of dollars had to stop.

Now, the White House is even more hesitant to take that risk.

And think about the Republican side, it's almost become a dead end.

In order to gain the initiative, the White House side will have to take the initiative. By contrast, on the Republican side, Bob Dole, who is already set to win his party's nomination, simply needs to emphasize that he will get tough on the Westeros system if elected, and whether he will actually have to do so in the future, who knows?

After a few moments of silence, it was Hillary again who spoke first, looking to her husband, "Bill, you have to make a decision and take a shot at the Westeros system."

The First Lady's attitude was clear.

Leon Panetta and Chester Carville looked at each other and remained silent.

Clinton, who had been tapping his fingers on his knee in repeated deliberation, heard his wife's words and felt some indignation, knowing full well what Hillary was thinking, not so much for his re-election, but rather that Hillary was paving the way for her own future political future.

Launching an antitrust investigation into Ygritte, once it screwed up and burst the tech stock bubble, both Wall Street and Silicon Valley would only blame him as president, and for the First Lady, even if it had an impact, it would probably be resolved after a few years. As for him, even if he were to win a second term as a result, it would never be easy to follow.

Not to mention after he steps down.

The first lady, however, can continue to seize political capital and accumulate even deeper political connections through his second term.

That said, Clinton was not a person who lacked a decision in the end, and quietly made up his mind in his mind, then looked to his chief of staff: "Leon, what do you think?"

Leon Panetta deliberated a bit and said, "Even if the ...... bubble does burst, the voters, on their part, I think they would be more than happy to see that scenario."

Yup.

Offend the capital and the effects won't be immediately apparent, after all, enough campaign funds have been raised even at the moment.

If the bubble does burst, on the part of the voters, the effect will be immediate.

The common man's mentality is well understood, and it's a smooth ride to see the destruction of what he can't get. Also, launch an antitrust investigation into Ygritte, and Dole's side, for the next few months, will be less likely to attack themselves on the subject.

Ultimately, getting re-elected is the first order of business.

With the decision made, Clinton instructed, "So, Leon, have Janet meet me in the morning."

Clinton was referring to Janet Reno, the current Attorney General.

To maximize the initiative, the antitrust investigation of Ygritte must be initiated by the Department of Justice, one of the President's cabinets.

Leon Panetta promised to think about it and said, "Bill, does this ...... need to be discussed with Westeros ahead of time?"

Clinton considered it a little and was about to say something, Hillary had already said, "No need, in case the Republican side finds out, this will be meaningless and will instead become a handle to attack us ......"

Seeing that Hilary was going to continue, Clinton finally interrupted and said to Panetta, "I'll discuss those details with Jenny tomorrow before making a decision."

"Then, I'll let Jenny know later."

After talking about this, Clinton didn't give Hillary a chance to interrupt, turned to her own campaign manager, and changed the subject directly, saying, "Chester, tell me about the state of affairs on the part of several major newspaper unions."

The rise of the Internet industry, which the television industry can still resist, and the paper media have been hit very hard in recent years.

Millions of jobs in the paper industry are involved, and the major newspaper industry unions in the U.S. have been quite active in this election.

Although we all understand that the rapid rise of the Internet and the rapid decline of the paper industry, almost as irreversible as when the use of steam engines in textile factories to replace the handmade workshops, but whether it is a big cake or a blank check, to win the support of the paper industry is still very influential at this stage, but also this election is a tug-of-war focus.

In the end, this matter is still very much related to the Westeros system.

As the thoughts came here and the discussion continued, Clinton couldn't help but think, and wonder what the young man was doing at this point.

Considering that the other guy is in New York at this point, at least one thing, he must be surrounded by a crowd.

That's one of the things Clinton envied most about someone.

The glamour is just too deep.

Manhattan.

After attending Verizon's listing ceremony during the day, Simon didn't leave immediately, still staying here to arrange some follow-up.

He was still here to arrange some follow-up. Instead, over in Los Angeles, Janet had already flown to Melbourne today with her two older children, Nick and Seattle, and tomorrow Jennifer would follow with her two youngest children.

Simon, on the other hand, departed on Sunday.

In order to avoid certain things happening, Simon made the decision not to fly the family on the same plane as much as possible, Janet is reluctant to do so, there is a kind of expectation that if they die, they will die with Simon, but for the most part they will follow the man's wishes.

Unlike Clinton's suspicions in the White House, Simon is not surrounded by a crowd, but is at James Raybould's house for a gathering of the top circle of the Westeros system, also after a busy day.

Because of Jennifer, the actress didn't insist on coming along with Simon for the occasion, though she was wrapped up in Irene Landa throughout the day.

"I've always admired Buffett's saying: when others are greedy I'm afraid, when others are afraid I'm greedy. Ray, while Verizon just got a big chunk of money, I hope you understand that with the overheated market situation, it's getting to the point where we're starting to fear. Next, I don't want to see any unwise follow-through investment from Verizon in anything but the deep mobile sector."

Simon's hammering was very straightforward, but Raymond Smith's expression was not unpleasant, the young man in front of him, who carried a series of miraculous aura, had convinced too many people over the years, and Raymond Smith was one of them.

"Simon, I understand," assured Raymond Smith as he added, "And another thing, Simon, by the way, don't you think it would be great if America Online and Verizon Telecom could merge?"

Simon, though, hadn't expected Smith to bring that up, sizing up the 61-year-old but not-at-all-elderly man in front of him and smiling, said, "Let's not talk about the obstacles in Washington, Ray, have you talked to Steve about this?"

Raymond Smith nodded, of course understanding Simon's subtext, and said, "Actually, Keith and I have always had a good relationship and, as much as I hate to admit it, I'm old ...... so if we can merge, I'd like to be chairman and ceo of the new company, with Keith as my deputy . In fact, I still don't think Keith is stable enough and he's young enough that he should be fine to continue to wait about 5 years."

If America Online and Verizon Telecom could merge, it would definitely be a strong union.

The idea had occurred to Simon a long time ago.

It's just that the idea is one thing, and the feasibility is another, and one of the more important issues is the question of how management dominance should be redistributed once the two companies merge.UU reads www.uukanshu.com

That doesn't seem to be much of an issue now.

Raymond Smith is 61 years old, and although at this level, the legal retirement age in the US has been invalidated, it was never going to last forever, and the point at which he retires is around 65.

But while the issue of power distribution can be resolved, there are still too many hurdles to cross to actually implement it.

After all, the current volume of the Westeros system is really too large, even if America Online and Verizon Telecom are both under the absolute control of the Westeros system, but many people obviously do not want to see the two companies merged into one, after all, with the two companies at this time, once the merger, it is almost even stronger than the at-t back then.

In addition, there is the most direct interest aspect.

The two companies to maintain their own independent power, although it will inevitably lead to redundant waste of resources investment, but also relatively more income in their respective businesses, and want to open up new business such as cable television, the barriers are also smaller.

Integration considerations aside, Simon also prefers the two companies to merge if possible.

However, while it's not known that Mr. President over at the White House is already planning to take on Ygritte, the fact that pressure on all sides of the Westeros system is bound to increase dramatically as it continues to swell in size is certainly not in dispute.

To be clear, the merger of America Online and Verizon Telecom is simply not a question of whether Simon wants it or not, but whether he can.

There are simply too many obstacles.

Just finished talking with Goldman Sachs recently installed the newest ceo Henry Paulson, James Raybould also came over at this time, the three of them to discuss this issue for a moment, a time also did not come to a result.

One can only take the long view.

In short, things can start to push, whether success or failure, but can not be too forced.