Top of the Great Era

Chapter 3087 Vigorous

Zhou Buqi is a bit baffled.

I don't know what's wrong with Carl Icahn.

After they left his house, Senior Sister Zhen Yu took his arm and explained to him, "Mr. Icahn's investment seems to have suffered heavy losses this year."

"No way?" Zhou Buqi had heard the hot news in the market, "Didn't he buy a large amount of Apple stock?"

Senior Sister Zhen Yu said, "Yes, he did buy a lot of Apple stocks and made a lot of money. But this amount of money can't make up for the losses in his energy investment. He bought a lot of oil and gas energy company stocks this year, but he suffered huge losses."

"Ha! He is indeed a speculator!"

Zhou Buqi knew what was going on as soon as he heard it.

It was caused by war again.

At the beginning of the year, Russia invaded Crimea, causing panic among the people.

According to conventional logic, energy prices will rise sharply when a war breaks out. Carl Icahn probably seized this opportunity and bought a lot of energy stocks in a big way, hoping to make a fortune from the war!

Unexpectedly, the major European and American powers were spineless and collectively chose appeasement.

It actually acquiesced in Russia's annexation of Crimea and did not take any militarily confrontational action, allowing this local battle to end quickly, as if nothing had happened, and did not cause a global energy crisis at all.

  Not only did an energy crisis not occur, Europe and the United States also joined OPEC to increase production and lower prices!

Causing energy prices to plummet!

I guess economists in Europe and the United States have also realized that when the war breaks out, a large number of capital wolves emerge, all of whom are ruthlessly thinking about making money from the war. Therefore, they are all collectively bullish and energy futures are hot, and they all want to reap the benefits regardless of the life or death of the global economy.

Now that Europe and the United States have finally emerged from the subprime mortgage crisis and the European debt crisis, if a local war leads to an energy crisis, then the economy will not develop! Will the people of the world suffer and have to tighten their belts to live? It is better to abandon the car to save the driver!

It is also because of this situation that Europe and the United States chose to ignore the outbreak of war and prevent the situation from escalating.

Abandon ideology and protect the economy.

This really killed all the energy speculators around the world, who generally suffered losses of more than 50%. Even the investment god Carl Icahn was not spared.

Zhen Yu sighed and said, "Mr. Icahn has suffered a huge loss this time."

Zhou Buqi snorted, "Ignore him. He's losing money, and wants to drag me into it? He just wants to use my reputation to give his investors an explanation. He's also suing Coca-Cola. Can Coca-Cola afford to offend that?"

The two got into the car.

A modified bulletproof Bentley is safe to drive at night.

After getting in the car, Zhen Yu said softly, "However, Coca-Cola has indeed been acting a bit strangely recently, and there is a lot of controversy in the capital market. In the past year, Coca-Cola's stock price has fallen by 3%."

"Ah? It's falling?"

Zhou Buqi was surprised.

It seems that Coca-Cola’s current problems are quite serious!

You know, now is the stage of economic recovery, a global bull market, and similar companies are rising continuously. How can the stock price of a top-quality company like Coca-Cola fall? It seems that Carl Icahn's statement is not groundless.

Zhen Yu said, "Well, I looked at the data. Over the past year, the average growth rate of the global beverage industry was 1%, while Coca-Cola fell by 3%."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "It's good that the price has dropped. Let's go buy it! Didn't you say that there is still a lot of cash in the family account?"

"Well, there aren't any good targets."

Zhen Yu is in charge of the family's finances, but she cannot be too casual when investing.

After all, Ziweixing International and Facebook are sworn enemies in the social networking business, so it is not a good idea to buy Facebook's stock; Ziwei Cloud and Amazon Cloud are in fierce competition, so it is not a good idea to buy Amazon's stock. Even the Microsoft stocks held in hand will have to be sold out continuously in the next few years.

Zhou Buqi said, "Just buy Coca-Cola. Buy it now while it's at a low point. Aren't Coca-Cola's dividends very high?"

"Well, benchmark companies will pay out 80% of their profits as dividends every year. They will also continue to buy back shares with the remaining funds." Zhen Yu chose to compare again, "Moutai is also very competitive. Its annual dividends are only 50% of its profits, and there is no stock buyback. I can't understand why Moutai doesn't expand its production lines, nor does it invest or build. It only pays out half of its profits as dividends every year. What does the rest of the money do? Where does it go?"

"Who cares! What's the current market value of Coca-Cola?"

"1000 billion dollars." "That's settled, let's buy Coca-Cola!"

Zhou Buqi waved his hand.

Being in the tech circle, his influence is still a little weak. If he could join the Coca-Cola board, his influence in the business world would be even greater.

……

Kurian has not yet been named executive director.

Still going through the process.

The board of directors has passed this stage, and the shareholders' meeting is left for review.

Before review, it needs to be made public.

It is still in the public announcement stage.

The matter of Alibaba was over, and Zhou Buqi was going to return to Silicon Valley from New York, so he could call for an extraordinary shareholders' meeting to appoint new directors. Ziweixing International was A-share, and the voting rights were in his hands. It was useless for everyone to oppose, as Zhou Buqi's personal voting rights exceeded 83%.

This is already a certainty.

Everyone inside already knows about it.

Kurian is going to replace Tang Binchen and become the executive director of the company!

So even though Kurian is not an executive director yet, he has already begun to exercise his power as an executive director and the "crown prince" of the company.

  The spearhead is directed at Tang Binchen!

When Zhou Buqi and Zhen Yu returned home, they received a call from Tang Binchen.

Tang Binchen said helplessly: "This Kurian is really not modest at all!"

Zhou Buqi was puzzled, "What happened to him?"

Tang Binchen said: "He is giving me a task!"

"what?"

Zhou Buqi couldn't laugh or cry.

Kurian's current position is senior vice president and president of Ziwei Cloud, and Tang Binchen's current position is senior vice president and president of new media business.

The two have the same job level and are both core executives, second only to Lu Qi.

There is no reporting relationship between them.

Unexpectedly, once Kurian gained power, he started to show off.

Of course, it won't be that simple.

Even if Kurian really wanted to abuse his power, it would be impossible for him to do it so clumsily given his level. His clumsy performance actually showed that he had no selfish desire for power.

Tang Binchen said: "He instructed me to adjust Helo's business!"

Zhou Buqi was very surprised, "He wants to touch Helo?"

Tang Binchen said, "Yeah, he's very bold, right? When I saw his email, I thought I had read it wrong. He's too impatient. He hasn't even been officially appointed as the executive director yet, but he's so eager to get involved in my business, and it's the most important business under my command."

"Where's Lu Qi?"

"He told me to come to you, he couldn't make a decision either. Kurian's idea was too powerful, it scared Lu Qi, and it scared me too, you come and analyze it."

"What idea?"

Zhou Buqi knew that Kurian's decisions were often very bold. He led Ziwei Cloud to achieve unimaginable achievements in just a few years. Many of his decisions surprised even Boss Zhou, who felt that he was as bold as Guan Yu, who would rush forward without caring about the huge army.

Tang Binchen said: "He asked me to fight a decisive battle with Microsoft!"