The HK$100 billion is like the base of a rock in the stock market. No matter how international speculators create turmoil in the future, as long as the base is not lost, the stock index can rise.
Upon hearing this, Yang Fugui exchanged a glance with Du Xingzhi, thus reaching a tacit understanding.
It's almost mid-April, and the rain is drizzling down, as if the sky has endless rain.
Just before leaving, Annie and Vivian Chow were waiting for the maid to bring their usual umbrellas.
"Why is it raining again?" Zhou Huimin couldn't help but complain. "It's been raining every day this month, not a single day has been sunny all day."
Looking at the fine rain, Annie joked, "Is the sky leaking?"
"The sky is leaking?" Zhou Huimin shook her head. "How can you say that? It's clearly a torrential rain caused by El Niño."
Upon hearing this, Annie sneered, "Yes, Sister Huimin is truly cultured."
Ever since Anne returned from the charity gala, Vivian Chow's attitude towards her has been very unfriendly, as if Anne owes her something.
For the past few days, Annie has been surrounded by such sarcastic and unsettling remarks around Zhou Huimin.
However, Annie could understand, since Chen Dong had given her three pieces of jewelry worth tens of millions of yuan at the charity gala.
Anne asked herself honestly, if she were in that person's shoes, she would definitely be just as jealous as Vivian Chow is today.
“You were the one who started the argument with Chen Dong,” Annie said to Zhou Huimin with her perfect smile. “You rejected Chen Dong first, and that’s why he came to me.”
“Sister Huimin, you don’t need to be so sensitive. In Chen Dong’s heart, you will always be number one.”
Hearing this, Zhou Huimin felt not comforted, but rather that Annie was provoking her.
"You have the nerve to say that? We agreed to ignore him and force him to marry you, but before Chen Dong could do anything, he just called you and you gave in!"
Zhou Huimin wasn't really concerned about those few pieces of jewelry, since she had plenty of jewelry herself. She just felt it was a pity; if the two of them had joined forces, they might have actually been able to force Chen Dong to agree to the marriage.
When Sister Chen Dong came before, he said everything was fine and that they would get married at the end of the year, but then he completely ignored it. It's obvious that he didn't take the two women to heart.
“Don’t be so smug about getting a few pieces of jewelry,” Zhou Huimin glanced at Annie and continued, “These are nothing special. Chen Dong has bought me many things before.”
“I…” Annie was about to argue when the maid came out with two umbrellas.
Zhou Huimin took the umbrella, opened it immediately, and walked towards the car in the yard.
"Miss Zhou Huimin, what's wrong this time?" the maid asked curiously.
Annie smiled and said, "It's nothing, she's just been in a bad mood these past few days."
After saying that, Annie opened her umbrella and got into the same car as Vivian Chow.
Annie accepted Chen Dong's jewelry, but Zhou Huimin received nothing. Annie felt this was unfair to her, so she repeatedly persuaded her to visit Chen Dong at Longteng.
Chen Dong had called Xiang Huaqiang several times to inquire about Zhou Huimin's situation, which was already considered as Chen Dong lowering his stance. Both Annie and Zhou Huimin knew about this, but Zhou Huimin was stubborn and unwilling to put down her pride.
News of fluctuations in Hong Kong stocks has been circulating. Brokerage firms have spent a lot of time splitting funds into different accounts and positions across the four major sectors of agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry.
Increased trading volume and turnover rate are signs of market manipulation by major investors.
Agriculture, forestry, fishery, animal husbandry, public utilities, power, textiles, and other industries are the most common heavyweight stocks in Hong Kong. What is strange is that there are basically no short selling orders in the trading markets of these common heavyweight stocks.
This indicates that international speculators are accumulating shares, and even scattered sell orders are being absorbed by them.
Meanwhile, due to a brief increase in trading volume, the Hang Seng Index also rebounded for two days, rising from 8900 points to 8961.74 points.
However, this rebound is accompanied by the depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar, meaning that two very important indicators of the Hong Kong stock market are moving in opposite directions.
This is not a good sign.
Meanwhile, mainland television news and newspapers reported that flood crises were becoming increasingly frequent across the country.
The largest typhoon to hit the area recently has caused great damage to the coastal areas of Fujian. Two days after the typhoon, heavy rainfall caused urban flooding, damaged power supply equipment, and, with the added rain, resulted in two fatal electrocution incidents in the city.
Television stations repeatedly warned people to stay indoors during the typhoon.
The meteorological bureau issued several red alerts, while the water resources bureau provided new water level data.
Even worse news is that, based on the latest data collected by the meteorological and water resources bureaus, they have developed a new forecasting model. Experts quickly concluded that the arrival of the torrential rains is likely to cause the flood peak to be higher than originally predicted.
In other words, their previous flood forecasting models had become conservative, and with updated data being sent to the Meteorological Bureau and the Water Resources Bureau, the expert group said they had previously underestimated the power of the mega-floods.
Upon learning of this news, Mr. Lin urgently mobilized all experts to discuss solutions. Zhou Guangjie from the Water Resources Bureau and Professor Li Mingfei, a meteorological expert, met again after a month.
At this point, Zhou Guangjie became much more humble when he saw Li Mingfei. After all, reality had proven that the data produced by Li Mingfei and his students was correct, and their data model had even been used in disaster relief, flood control, and prevention of mudslide hazards.
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