Chapter 808 Pingguo collapse phenomenon. Unlucky Ford (4K)

Obviously, the iPhone 14 press conference did not achieve the expected purpose. Pingguo was once again labeled as backward after a slow step from 4G to 5G.

But when the fruit fans were still thinking about giving Pingguo a chance, then the night terrors scene appeared.

The stock price of Pingguo started an epic plunge, and led other U.S. stocks to plummet by 1,000 points!

Kuke was still giving a thank you speech on stage, but the actual performance of the iPhone 14 directly extinguished the optimism that the US stock market had finally cultivated.

Pingguo's stock plunged, and its market value evaporated by about 100 billion US dollars!

Qualcomm's stock plunged, and the two giants led other technology concept stocks in the US stock market to dive collectively. The Dow plummeted by a thousand points, and the S\u0026P and the Nasdaq both had their largest daily declines in half a year.

In addition to panic, the market sentiment is more anger.

Investors in the U.S. stock market even formed an alliance overnight to sue Pingguo for embezzling R\u0026D funds and manipulating stock prices on as many as 15 charges.

A senior investment strategist at the Bank of New York Mellon declared even more desperately: "It took only half an hour today for Kuke to close the door to America's greatness again. I think Pingguo's current situation may continue. Pingguo It is not a coincidence that the plight of companies such as Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm—they may have lagged substantially behind big companies.”

The investment strategist of Morgan Sleytan also said desperately to his company's clients: "The most surprising thing is that Pingguo's investors seem to naively hope that the Pingguo iPhone 14 will lead Pingguo out of the predicament, but now The release of iPhone 14 has intensified Pingguo's plight."

In addition to the losses of ordinary investors, the wealthiest people in the United States have also suffered unprecedented losses.

Musk lost $6 billion in wealth, Bezos lost $6.9 billion, Bill Gates lost $2.8 billion, and Buffett lost $3.2 billion. The founder of Google, Sergey, who was born in a Jewish family in Moscow, Soviet Union, and a Russian-American Jewish entrepreneur, Sergey’s wealth has dropped to less than 100 billion US dollars.

Investors, big and small, are all bleeding, and the major sectors of the US stock market even experienced a rare "annihilation" scene in the world in mid-October.

On October 16, Eastern Time, as of the close, the Dow fell 2010.38 points, a drop of 5.03%; the Nasdaq fell 592.47 points, a drop of 5.86%; the S\u0026P 500 fell 241.46 points, a drop of 6.37%.

The information technology/technology sector led the decline with a total of 6.98% for two consecutive days-the chip component stock Nvidia fell more than 9.2% and was the worst performer. The telecommunications, industrial, raw materials, and financial sectors fell by as much as 3.98%, and the energy sector closed down 1.07%. minimum.

Among the constituent stocks of the Nasdaq Index, none of the companies such as Nvidia, Marvell Technology, Microchip Technology, AMD, NXP, Applied Materials, and Micron Technology fell by more than 5%.

Under the situation of leading technology stocks plummeting across the board, Tesla closed down 4.7%, falling for two consecutive days. Among the six FAANMG technology stocks, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, led the decline by closing down 5.7%, Amazon fell nearly 5.16%, Netflix fell nearly 5.5%, and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, fell nearly 5.5%, all of which gave up the gains made some time ago.

October seventeenth.

According to foreign media reports, a person familiar with the matter revealed that the Uncle Sam Justice Department will launch an antitrust lawsuit against Pingguo. It will come soon, the exact time has not yet been determined.

"Since 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating Pingguo, accusing it of abusing its market power and stifling small technology companies, including app developers and hardware manufacturers. According to the person familiar with the matter, the Department of Justice is now considering filing The lawsuits go beyond the payment system controlled by Pingguo and the high commissions that make software developers angry."

Although it is said to be an anti-monopoly investigation, who doesn't know that this is a ulterior motive?

Pingguo sang a bad show, which dragged the entire U.S. stock market from the abyss to the abyss again.

This kind of pig teammate behavior will naturally be beaten by Uncle Sam and the capital behind him.

Even because the overseas promotion of Jiuzhou entertainment platform is more than the previous two years, the number of user registration and activity has improved qualitatively. Many of these overseas consumers have seen Xiawei MATE 70J, which has caused enterprises such as Pingguo to It has also become very difficult to imagine relying on the media and self-media to manipulate public opinion and trap users in the Pingguo ecosystem as before.

After all, if it doesn’t work, you can use the Gonggong system to make transitions...

And at a time when Western technology stocks and manufacturing companies have been made extremely uncomfortable by Daxia companies, Ford Motor, which was once "financially budgeted", couldn't bear the financial pressure, and began to continue to increase its efforts to cut down on food and clothing.

Ford executives confirmed that about 5,000 jobs will be cut in the United States, Canada and India, of which 3,500 will be full-time employees with fixed salaries and the remaining 1,500 will be contract workers.

Ford executive chairman Bill Ford and CEO Jim Farley wrote in a letter to employees: "In the face of a new crisis, we need to realign resources. Our cost structure is not compared with traditional and new competitors. Competitiveness."

In short, Ford executives have reached a consensus that they need to continue to save costs and lay off workers.

Especially since the beginning of this year, Western semiconductor companies such as Hanxing Electronics have encountered various situations that lead to chip shortages, and the rapid development of Daxia’s auto companies has led to the absorption of raw materials that were once cheaply exported by Daxia’s auto companies, and their external sales prices have risen. , Uncle Sam's release of water around the world led to global inflation, etc., which continued to put pressure on the global auto industry, including Ford.

Of course, there is also the reason why Ford's investment failed, and it lost 8 billion US dollars in just one year.

Therefore, cutting costs and making the financial report look good again has become the top priority.

And this is not the first time Ford has done this.

In May 1019, it was announced that 7,000 people would be cut globally.

In June 2019, it announced again that it would lay off 12,000 employees across Europe, and close or sell 6 European factories.

In September 2020, it announced the layoff of 1,400 employees in North America.

In January 1021, it was announced that three Brazilian factories would be closed one after another, affecting 5,000 workers.

In September 1021, it was announced that it would stop producing cars in India ↑↓, and close two Indian ↑↓ factories, laying off about 4,000 people.

In March 1022, it was officially announced that the automobile business will be split, and fuel engine vehicles will be separated from electric new energy vehicles, and they will be responsible for their own profits and losses.

In the whole year of 1022, Ford lost more than 10 billion in the four quarters combined. Not only did it cut off the research and development of many new car series, but also broke out a lot of scandals.

1022-1023 is not just the Ford family so "miserable".

Stellantis Group, a car manufacturer and travel solution provider that was merged by PSA Group and Fiat Chrysler Group in a 50:50 share ratio, not only announced the layoffs of Stirling Heights Stamping Plant in North America, but also reached an agreement with Italian labor unions, 2,530 jobs were cut in Italy.

The plight of companies in the European and American markets has intensified, and car companies have started a new round of layoffs.

Seeking financing and borrowing, reducing salaries for all staff, drawing big cakes to find a track, talking about environmental protection by blowing concepts, seeking high-quality spokespersons at high prices, and corporate scandals... After all these tricks have been used, the market feedback still does not improve, and in the end they can only come up with The cruelty of capital to make financial statements - layoffs.

Western car companies are in such a predicament, and companies such as Nihong Nissan, Honda, and Toyota are even more miserable.

As early as 1022, these neon car companies announced that they would lay off employees in branches around the world, with a total of more than 41,000 layoffs.

As one of the largest parts manufacturers in Germany, ZF plans to lay off 15,000 employees in the next five years.

That is to say, with so many news of layoffs, a brainstorm broke out in October, and ordinary people surfing the Internet all over the world discovered that, unconsciously, several major auto brands and zero Component manufacturing companies actually have large-scale layoff plans in the past two years.

Germany's BMW Group, Britain's Bentley, McLaren, Aston Martin, Sweden's Volvo, and Scania are all "not spared."

It was nothing short of a spectacle.

After persisting for so many years, Western technology companies and manufacturing industries have not been defeated by the 2008 global financial crisis, nor by the carbon-based chips developed by Kyushu Semiconductor.

However, after the Pingguo iPhone 14 encountered Waterloo, the media reported the tragic experiences of these years one after another.

For a while, everyone in the Western public opinion was in danger. In order to keep their property, the rich either frantically bought gold, a rare metal that preserves value and has industrial value, or they were thinking about where to put their funds for refuge.

There are so many companies in the world who are not doing well, so where does the consumer's consumption go?

Daxia Enterprise!

However, under the propaganda of the Western media, which is vague or even called by their first names, the people have unknowingly accepted such a concept.

Daxia companies are robbing them of their jobs and resources...

Some of the rich, the middle class, and the social elite followed the trend, while some began to frequently inquire about the relevant information of Daxia enterprises.

The Daxia Putonghua class, which has been popular for two years, has become more popular abroad.

Even in countries such as the United States, Germany, and Maoxiong, there are already large-scale chain foreign language education full-time professors who teach Mandarin, listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Due to the explosive increase in clients in a short period of time, many students majoring in foreign languages ​​in Daxia also "have to" get high salaries and go abroad to become Daxia Mandarin lecturers.

As for the Putonghua test in Daxia, due to the surge in the number of applicants, it "has to" increase the difficulty of the test. As a result, many foreigners want to obtain a better Mandarin level, and the time and energy required has increased a lot.

But even so, these foreigners who have not passed the test still choose to bite the bullet and fight World War II, World War III, or even World War II.

Daxia Xishu, Rongcheng Xinke District, Kyushu Science and Technology.

"Mr. Zhang, I'm sorry. Our company cannot agree to your request. If your company insists on going its own way and wants to be the exclusive supplier of Pingguo, then our Kyushu Technology Company will choose to withdraw its shares and capital, and get back the technology authorization."

"Mr. Luo, the Kyushu Alliance is a cooperative organization. We will not force or control your company's commercial projects. Your company wants to provide Pingguo with sealant, and you can provide products with independent intellectual property rights developed by your company. .

Our company will not pursue your company's legal issues, but if you want to provide products authorized by our technology to companies on the list such as Pingguo, Nvidia, and Intel, then our company will withdraw the technology authorization and take legal measures according to the contract legal measures. "

"Director Jim?

Yes, this is the office of the president of Kyushu Science and Technology.

We have passed on your cooperation request on behalf of Pingguo to the company's senior management, and the high-level meeting has also produced results.

Since our company is gradually divesting and integrating part of the manufacturing and service business, we can only supply the orders signed by the previous partners, and we cannot supply your company in a short time.

Moreover, your company is not in our first-level cooperation list, so your company cannot obtain products with more than 30% of our technology authorization. I hope your company will know. "

Recently, every department of Kyushu Technology has been very busy, but if you want to choose a department with the largest increase in business, it must be the office of the president of Kyushu Technology.

Those looking for cooperation come from all over the world, in various languages, and in various identities.

At the back, the staff of the Kyushu Science and Technology President's Office didn't bother to give any friendly explanations, and they only used their native language for calls.

If the other party has an interpreter, the conversation can continue.

If the other party does not have a translator, or even a translation software, then you can only accept the service of the smart customer service after a beep.

There are tens of thousands of things that need to be dealt with every day, and Yuan Sheng, who made the president's assistant come out, also needs to help the president with some affairs from time to time.

No way, once my big boss entered the R\u0026D base, he completely let himself go, and there was no way to communicate at any time.

And what is Gu Qing busy at this time?

After the meeting in the Titan Star department, followed up with a few more projects, and raised a few "insignificant" opinions, Boss Gu became a permanent resident in the semiconductor department of Kyushu Technology.

"Silicon-based and carbon-based are both material bases. With the help of graphene materials, we can achieve a two-step strategy of silicon-based semiconductors and carbon-based semiconductors.

But in the end we still have to focus on quantum chips and quantum communications. "

Gu Qing wrote and drew on the blackboard with his fingers flying, and kept talking.

"In the last century, physicists have discovered the amazing counterintuitive rules that govern the subatomic world, and the quantum world has fascinated countless people.

At the same time, our biomedical scientists' understanding of how the brain works has evolved over time.

But today in the new century, even if our scientists have been able to edit genes, the problem between quantum physics and cognitive science is still like a castle in the air, with only a few rules or phenomena that we can recognize. "

PS: In the follow-up, there should be no such large-scale writing about the dynamics of major manufacturing companies such as Ford.

The plot is over, good night.

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