下午察：李彦宏的缺席与百度掉队
中国国家主席习近平星期一（2月17日）在一场民营企业大佬云集的座谈会上信心喊话，称民营企业家大显身手正当其时。
然而，中国搜索引擎巨头百度创始人李彦宏，没有出现在这次座谈会中。同为中国互联网巨头大佬的阿里巴巴创始人马云、腾讯董事局主席马化腾，则亮相了，分别坐在首排左二、右二的位置。
如此高规格的座谈会，所谓僧多粥少，未能挤进门槛的知名民营企业家大有人在，如京东的刘强东、字节跳动的张一鸣等，但百度可是曾与阿里和腾讯齐名并列“BAT”的中国互联网巨头，居然无缘入场，随即引发各方揣测。
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The lead from Wall Street offers little clarity as the major averages opened lower on Friday and then bounced back and forth across the unchanged line, finally finishing mixed and little changed.The Dow added 33.18 points or 0.10 percent to finish at 34,798.00, while the NASDAQ eased 4.54 points or 0.03 percent to close at 15,047.70 and the S&P 500 rose 6.50 points or 0.15 percent to end at 4,455.48. For the week, the Dow rose 0.6 percent, the NASDAQ added 0.1 percent and the S&P gained 0.5 percent.The lackluster performance on Wall Street came on uncertainty about the outlook for the markets following recent volatility.
In general, many financial experts support their clients’ desire to buy cryptocurrency, but they don’t recommend it unless clients express interest. “The biggest concern for us is if someone wants to invest in crypto and the investment they choose doesn’t do well, and then all of a sudden they can’t send their kids to college,” says Ian Harvey, a certified financial planner (CFP) in New York City. “Then it wasn’t worth the risk.” The speculative nature of cryptocurrency leads some planners to recommend it for clients’ “side” investments. “Some call it a Vegas account,” says Scott Hammel, a CFP in Dallas. “Let’s keep this away from our real long-term perspective, make sure it doesn’t become too large a portion of your portfolio.” In a very real sense, Bitcoin is like a single stock, and advisors wouldn’t recommend putting a sizable part of your portfolio into any one company. At most, planners suggest putting no more than 1% to 10% into Bitcoin if you’re passionate about it. “If it was one stock, you would never allocate any significant portion of your portfolio to it,” Hammel says.
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