Chapter 46 The East Wind is Coming

   "Old Liao, this kind of ham is really eaten with your hands!" Zhong Shi stopped Liao Chengde, who wanted to take further action, and waved his hand with a weird smile on his face.

"Really?" Liao Chengde looked suspiciously at Zhong Shi, then at Liao Xiaohua, who was intoxicated, and then picked up a thin piece of ham with his hands, and said to himself: "Foreigners are barbarians. Eating with so little etiquette is not as good as our great country with a culture of 5,000 years!"

After finishing speaking, he put the ham in his mouth into his mouth, chewed it carefully, nodded involuntarily, and said in a low voice: "Unexpectedly, Guilao's food still has some taste, although it doesn't look very eye-catching, and it's not very civilized to eat. , the taste is really good, comparable to Jinhua ham!"

   "Dad, how can Jinhua ham compare with this thing? Do you know how precious this thing is?" Liao Xiaohua took a sip of the red wine and waited until the taste buds were completely digested, then chuckled and said disdainfully.

   When it comes to food, Liao Xiaohua is definitely a professional gourmet. He has visited almost all the well-known restaurants in Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories, and sometimes even writes articles in food magazines.

For this rustic dad, he really doesn't like some aspects, such as wearing a mandarin jacket every day, such as steamed buns and fried dough sticks for breakfast, and can only speak a few words of English, but most of the time He spoke the dialect of his hometown.

Liao Xiaohua grew up under the stick of his father, so he was not too bad academically and morally. It was only when he went to study in Australia that he was gradually assimilated by foreigners in terms of habits, and Hong Kong is also a highly international university. In the city, there are not a few young people like Liao Xiaohua who were born in Hong Kong, studied abroad, and then returned to Hong Kong to work. However, people like Liao Chengde who were born in the mainland and worked hard in Hong Kong are not very popular in their eyes.

  The 1980s and 1990s were the period of Hong Kong's economic transformation. Many manufacturing factories moved north, while the financial industry and tourism became new growth points for Hong Kong's economy. There is a large demand for financial talents, and these people are often graduated from prestigious foreign schools, speak English that is more fluent than their mother tongue, shuttle around skyscrapers all day long, and have an unknown sense of superiority over ordinary working-class people.

  However, for those rich men in the city, such as Li Ka-shing and Zheng Yutong, they have no intention of looking down on them at all. Even the financial companies that hire them can only respect the wealth of these rich men.

   Obviously, Liao Chengde has not yet reached that level, and Liao Xiaohua is his biological son, so Liao Xiaohua doesn't hide anything at all.

Since Liao Xiaohua graduated from the University of Melbourne in Australia, he has not done anything seriously. He eats and drinks with a group of friends all day long, or is a pop star. After a few years, he has almost lost all the professional knowledge he learned in Australia. Forgot all.

Liao Chengde himself is busy with business, and most of them are in the mainland, so he rarely has the opportunity to discipline his grown son. When he met Zhong Shi later, he had the opportunity to preach a few more words, but Liao Xiaohua usually listened to him. , the action remains the same. Liao Chengde was also troubled, but since Liao Xiaohua was shocked by Zhong Shi, he became much more honest, and Liao Chengde was also consoling.

   "Boy, are you looking for a fight?" Liao Chengde's eyes widened and he pretended to be ferocious. Of course he was not really angry, but he was still somewhat dissatisfied with Liao Xiaohua's belittling his country's food.

"Old Liao, don't pretend anymore, the taste of this ham is indeed far better than Jinhua ham!" Zhong Shi interrupted the teasing between the father and son, and then glanced at the silent Land Rover, as if to Ask for his opinion.

  Seeing that the three of them looked over, Lu Rover was a little panicked, and nodded quickly, expressing his agreement with Zhong Shi's opinion.

   "Three to one!" Liao Xiaohua proudly raised three fingers towards Liao Chengde, causing Liao Chengde to roll his eyes suddenly, took a big sip of the red wine in front of him, and then let out a long sigh of relief.

   "By the way, Lao Liao, how is your current position?" Zhong Shi asked casually while cutting the steak skillfully.

"Now there are two accounts, one of which has about 300 lots of short orders, and the other account has about 100 lots of short orders. The total investment is tens of millions, and now I have made a little profit." Liao Chengde stopped. After thinking about the work in the middle, he said slowly.

"The Fed now has a new chairman, Alan Greenspan, who announced a rate hike two days ago. As a result, the market panic was vented today, so today's US stocks plummeted. This is not good news for the Hong Kong stock market After all, the Hong Kong dollar and the U.S. dollar are pegged to each other." Zhong Shi thought for a while, then frowned and said, he couldn't say anything about Liao Chengde's caution, but he can't blame him for missing this opportunity to make money.

  The name Greenspan is very famous to Zhongshi. He has sat on the position of chairman of the Federal Reserve for nearly 20 years, and his tenure has spanned six US presidents. He is known as the "Economic Czar" and "Dollar President". The general treatment of the head of state.

   It is no exaggeration to say that the entire global capital market is following Greenspan's face. Investors even spent a lot of effort to study his speech expectations, trying to capture even a little bit of clues. The financial world even said this: "It doesn't matter who is the president, as long as Alan (Greenspan) is the chairman of the Federal Reserve."

There is even an anecdote widely circulated in the market, that is, a cleaner working at the headquarters of the Federal Reserve District, revealed to himself the secret of stock trading, that is, to look at the face of Greenspan every morning, if Greenspan is smiling, If you greet him kindly, then he will buy. If the chairman does not have a smile on his face in the morning, then he will choose to sell.

   But now Greenspan has just taken the position of chairman of the Federal Reserve and has just begun a new stage of his legendary life. The market still takes a wait-and-see attitude towards him as the chairman.

  The so-called Federal Reserve is the Federal Reserve System of the United States. Its status is equivalent to the central bank. It has absolute authority in terms of dollar exchange rate, interest rate, and monetary policy. Its every move affects the global economy.

   "What does this mean?" Liao Chengde was a little confused when he heard Zhong Shi say a lot of terms, but he understood the meaning, as if he was saying that the Hong Kong stock market will fall recently.

"What I'm talking about is that because of the increase in bank interest rates, some of the money in the market will be used as bank deposits. This will be a blow to the stock market, and stocks will naturally fall. Zhong Sheng, what you said is right. Right?" Liao Xiaohua briefly explained Zhong Shi's terminology to Liao Chengde, then turned his head and asked Zhong Shi.

   "You're right!" Zhong Shi nodded approvingly. This relationship between the stock market and interest rates is actually an economic theory. Zhong Shi thought for a while, and then asked curiously: "Xiao Hua, what did you learn in Australia?"

   "Accounting, but I also minored in a bachelor's degree in economics. How about it, it's amazing!" Liao Xiaohua said proudly.

   "Not bad!" Zhong Shi nodded expressionlessly. For a person who graduated from Caltech, there is no difference between an Australian university and a floating cloud. After thinking about it, Zhong Shi tentatively asked: "Xiao Hua, are you interested in being my analyst?"

He has called Liao Xiaohua Xiaohua again and again. This kind of name is only suitable for people who are of the same generation as Liao Chengde and who are relatively close. There is something wrong.

And the person called "Xiaohua" here didn't think there was anything wrong, Liao Xiaohua was taken aback for a moment, then he couldn't believe his ears, and said in a gaffe: "Zhong Sheng, are you willing to let me help you? "

   "Zhong Shi, this is really inappropriate! I know my son best, except for eating, drinking and having fun, he is almost useless!" Liao Chengde couldn't sit still anymore, and hurriedly stopped talking.

"Hey, I didn't ask him to help me now. You also know that I intend to set up a fund. Of course, I need to recruit some professionals, but it will be four or five years later. Xiaohua is your son, one of my own, Of course it’s safe to use, and besides, Lao Liao, you don’t want your son to just hang around like this all day!” Zhong Shi laughed, revealed a little bit of his future plan, and said to Liao Chengde calmly.

   Liao Chengde, who heard Zhong Shi's voice beyond words, blushed and stopped talking. On the other hand, Liao Xiaohua couldn't hold back, and didn't know what to say.

"Since you are an accountant, go to the 'Big Five' and do two years of solid auditing, then jump to an investment bank and work as an analyst. When you have almost trained, come and help me! Do the math! The time is about the same, when my fund opens, naturally you, Lao Liao, will have a share."

  Zhong Shi stared at Liao Xiaohua with stern eyes, waiting for him to give a reply.

  At that time, there were five large audit firms in the world, but one of them closed down because of being involved in a fraudulent account scandal, so later generations have the term "Big Four". However, whether it is in an audit firm or in an investment bank, it is very hard work, and you have to work at least 100 hours a week.

   "No problem, as long as you give the order, I will go through fire and water, and I will do it!" Liao Xiaohua was startled for a moment, then nodded sharply, and agreed.

  He agreed so simply that even Lu Rover, who had been burying his head in eating, didn't expect it. Liao Chengde blinked his eyes wildly, he couldn't believe what was going on in front of him, how could this arrogant son change his nature so quickly, and so thoroughly.

  What Comrade Lao Liao didn't know was that his son was completely convinced by Zhongshi as early as when Zhongshi was operating futures. When Liao Xiaohua thought of Zhong Shi's dominance in the futures market, he was so excited that he couldn't help himself. He seemed to see the goal and direction of life, and knew that he could no longer mess around like this.

   With Liao Xiaohua's guarantee, Zhong Shi stopped talking and began to taste the delicious steak on the plate. The others also had their own thoughts and didn't want to talk too much, but they didn't know what this rich meal tasted like in their mouths.

   On October 18, U.S. stock time, U.S. Treasury Secretary Baker made an astonishing statement on a nationally broadcast TV program: If the Federal Republic of Germany does not lower interest rates to stimulate economic expansion, the U.S. will consider letting the dollar continue to fall.

  The straw that breaks the camel's camel has finally come! (In the future, the content will no longer be too ridiculous, the climax will come soon, I hope everyone will support, please recommend, please collect, thank you!)

  (end of this chapter)