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Chapter 818 Floating in the sky

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【Anti-theft sticker chapter】

In the new week that begins on May 22, the eyes of countless investors are on Washington.

The U.S. Congress officially started voting on the Capital Gains Tax Reform Act on this day. At noon on the East Coast time, the results were released. 328 votes in favor and 106 votes against, an absolute majority easily passed.

Senate vote.

69 votes in favour and 31 against, the same absolute majority.

According to the U.S. Constitution, a bill approved by more than two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives can still take effect automatically even if it is vetoed by the president. This shows the general trend of this bill.

The White House certainly wouldn't veto the bill.

On May 24, Clinton officially signed the bill and held a press conference at the White House to announce that the new capital gains tax bill came into effect.

The new bill repeals the 28% fixed capital gains tax rate enacted during the Reagan tax reform, and adopts a two-tier tax rate mechanism. Securities investors hold stocks, bonds and other assets for more than 12 months, and the capital gains tax rate is 15%. For periods shorter than 12 months, the capital gains tax rate is increased to 30%.

In his speech at the press conference, Mr. President said that the new capital gains tax rules will minimize vicious short-term speculation in the capital market, and at the same time increase the activity of the capital market through tax relief for benign long-term investors, which will also attract more Overseas capital entered the U.S. capital market and promoted the federal economic development.

The U.S. stock market has long since left the era of retail investors. Even though the wave of new technologies in recent years has led to a substantial increase in individual investors, the overall trading volume of the U.S. stock market at this stage is only 17% from retail investors, and the remaining 83% of the trading volume comes from the United States. and countless institutional investors overseas.

Because it has little relationship with the general public, at least not directly. Under the silent suppression of many forces, except for some conceivable complaints on the Internet platform and a small amount of criticism from various media, the capital gains tax reform basically did not. Cause too much upheaval.

Of course, there is no shortage of momentum to lead the spearhead to the Westeros system.

Simon's large number of technology stocks, according to various opinions, are now at a fairly high level of bubble level, and Westeros has generally held these stocks for more than a year. The capital gains tax rate is calculated, and the tax saved is almost impossible to estimate.

It's just that similar voices are even weaker than public opinion criticism of capital gains tax reform.

After the Hearst family collapsed under the sniping of the Westeros system last year, no media dared to easily provoke a ruthless young tycoon.

For relevant comments, the Westeros family did not respond at all.

However, the public who pays a little attention to entertainment information can feel that these days, Daenerys Entertainment's two heavyweight films "Jurassic Park 2" and "Apollo 13" have been released this summer. The huge increase, the overwhelming variety of advertisements, almost overshadowed the light of all other films in this summer season.

nipple.

Still a pacifier.

Then, on May 26, the last trading day of the week, Nokia was officially listed on the Nasdaq exchange.

Since its listing in August 1993, Nokia's shares on the London Stock Exchange have undergone two stock splits, one for two and one for three. The current stage is still different from the market strategy of technology companies pursuing high stock prices. It is generally believed that the lower share price of a single share can attract investors to buy, plus some equity changes brought about by other options cashing and small mergers and acquisitions, the current total share capital has reached 1.169 billion shares.

This time, it was listed on the Nasdaq market and adopted an additional issuance method. The number of new shares issued was 120 million shares. Because the number of subscriptions reached 6 times the size of the additional issuance, the pre-determined over-allotment option was triggered, and an additional 18 million shares were issued. A total of 138 million new shares were issued at an issue price of US$27.5 and a financing scale of US$3.795 billion.

Simon returned to the West Coast last Friday from the TV division, and came back to the East Coast again on Thursday this week to build momentum for Nokia's listing on the Nasdaq market.

This listing is not much different from the process of corporate IPO. If there is a difference, the issue price of this batch of new shares is set according to the recent trading price of the London stock market, and the stocks of the two places are interchangeable, so it did not give investors too many surprises possible.

However, as a Westeros concept stock that returned to the Nasdaq market from overseas, the market still gave quite optimistic forecasts before this listing. It is generally estimated that Nokia's first day of listing in North America will increase by about 5%. .

Facts have proved that this data still seriously underestimates the strong appeal of Westeros concept stocks to the market.

Moreover, the capital gains tax reform just passed this week has really stimulated the activity of the capital market to a large extent.

Around ten o'clock in the morning, Nokia's stock officially started trading, and the opening price rushed directly to more than $29, easily breaking through the 5% first-day increase expected by many industry analysts. The opening was good, which in turn attracted more capital to buy this. only stocks.

When the time came to four o'clock in the afternoon, the Nasdaq stock market closed, and Nokia's share price rose by 11.8% in a single day, with a closing market value of $30.75. According to the total share capital of Nokia's 1.307 billion shares after the additional issuance, the total market value of the communications equipment giant has reached 40.1 billion US dollars.

Europe and America

Such a mature capital market, and because it can be exchanged, the stock prices of companies listed in the two places will not be much different.

Due to the time difference, the stock market in London has closed this week, and it will wait until next week to open again. The closing market value is about 24.6 billion pounds, equivalent to 37.7 billion US dollars, based on the total share capital after the additional issuance. However, as long as there is no super accident at the black swan level, the stock price of Nokia in the London Stock Exchange will inevitably rise after the opening of the market next Monday, and eventually it will be basically the same as the North American side after the exchange rate conversion.

The additional issuance was completed, and Westeros' shareholding in Nokia was reduced to 67.2%.

According to the closing price of the first day of trading on the Nasdaq, just one Nokia, the wealth contributed to Simon reached 26.9 billion US dollars.

Some media people on the Internet platform who followed Simon's personal wealth numbers in real time readjusted Simon's personal wealth based on Nokia's market performance on the first day. The numbers given by the editor-in-chief of Fortune magazine were widely circulated and reprinted on Facebook and other platforms.

$620 billion!

This is another new high figure given by authoritative financial figures since the first media statistics in January of the year that Simon’s personal net worth exceeded 500 billion US dollars, and it is calculated with reference to the current stock prices of listed companies in the Westeros system.

Among them, Cisco, whose market value has exceeded the $150 billion mark in January at the beginning of the year, as of the close of May 26, the market value has reached $192.6 billion that day, with an overall increase of nearly 30% in more than four months. The billion-dollar company is just one step away.

In addition to Cisco, the shares of other core companies of the Westeros system have also continued to hit new highs.

For Igreit, which is about to go public, the editor-in-chief of Fortune magazine is still valued at a rather conservative $100 billion. Even so, cumulatively, Simon Westeros' current net worth has reached 620 billion US dollars, not to mention the 400 richest people in the United States, even in the global wealth list, most of the other rich people on the list are even Simon. That's less than a fraction of the massive $620 billion fortune.

numbness.

Just utter numbness.

Whether it's $500 billion or $620 billion, it's out of the mindset of most Americans who don't happen to be very good at math.

The complaint of a popular blogger on Facebook is probably the real feeling of many melon-eating spectators who pay attention to this matter: "Let Simon Westeros float in the sky like a god, and we live our own lives."

Others are fanning the flames through online platforms.

We should start a revolution against Simon Westeros.

Barbara.

Then, many similar users were banned to varying degrees for 'spreading hate speech'.

Realizing that users are the foundation of its own development, Igreat has become more and more strict with the protection of user accounts in recent years, and Simon often pays attention to this matter in person. The bigger the account, the higher the gold content of the Igreit account, and most users simply cannot afford to be banned.

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