America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 190 AMC Television Reform and Mr. Pei
Ever since Abel entered Wall Street.

It can be said that he and the Wall Street giants have always been in a state of no crime.

Most of his wealth comes from the international market.

Mainly in the foreign exchange market, the precious metal futures market and the international crude oil market.

His investments in these places.

They are all operated through the giants of Wall Street.

Just interest and commission.

Over the past year, Wall Street giants may have made hundreds of millions of dollars.

Not to mention, the flow of money that he casually watched.

It also made many other Wall Street giants drink a lot of soup.

All along, he gave the impression of Wall Street.

That's the second Peter Lynch—

Honest and well-behaved, the kind of image that is happy to make money for everyone.

But Abel certainly doesn't want to be a second Peter Lynch.

What's so good about being a stock angel?

In his forties, he chose to retire.

What does that mean?
He wants to be himself.

He also wants to be one of the giants, even the most powerful one.

He wants to start his own business.

That's why he made the frighteningly high valuation quotation at the NO.15 investment reception last month.

That offer was originally to reject people thousands of miles away.

Even if he followed up with a considerable gambling agreement.

Still no lunatic is willing to agree with his valuation.

This also gave him a follow-up second-step plan.

He started out on his own.
Abel started out as the owner of a medium-sized commercial bank through acquisitions and mergers.

The first few are fine.

The latter has Abel's own bank.

This is why Wall Street giants cannot tolerate it.

Because Abel has his own bank.

This means that it is difficult for Wall Street to monitor the flow of Abel's funds at will.

It also means that Abel makes the Wall Street giants earn a lot of commissions and interest.

It may be gone in the future.

In their eyes, a very high-quality future cash cow, the second Peter Lynch.

To want to be like them.

After that, the treatment he received from these Wall Street giants was naturally different.

He begins to be seen as one of a kind, begins to be hostile.

This is why the whole of Wall Street began to be somewhat hostile to him.

But in fact, this kind of hostility is not hostility.

Because any giant who has gained a foothold on Wall Street.

The whole of Wall Street is treated with this attitude.

Simply put, every Wall Street titan.

They will be hostile to other Wall Street giants, and this hostility is consistent and "fair".

Whether it is Abel, Goldman Sachs, or Lehman, the treatment is the same.

This is the hostility and pressure that any company or individual who wants to become a Wall Street giant must bear.

No one can avoid it.

Time to NO.30.

There are only two days left in 2000.

Smith Capital has used 210 billion US dollars of credit lines in the three banks.

Although there are still 200 billion U.S. dollars in credit lines that have not been used.

But the floating loss on Smith's capital account has reached 2.5 million US dollars.

In other words, Smith Capital has lost $2.5 million in two days.

Some of the employees of Smith Capital in the safe house state have already shaken their hearts.

But their boss still insisted on shorting.

Only invest funds in the short list of USD/JPY.

As wage earners, including David Mellon.

They didn't dare to persuade the boss at this time.

We can only see the boss, whether there is any preparation left behind.

But their boss left Smith Building on NO.30.

Abel, who was supposed to be on the scene to monitor the transaction.

Appeared at the headquarters of the American classic movie cable TV station.

It is also the headquarters of AMC TV station, one of the cable TV stations in the United States.

AMC TV station was originally one of the TV stations controlled by Rainbow Media Holding Group.

But about a month ago.

It was acquired by AB Smith Entertainment, which is owned by Abel.

amc television, officially became a wholly owned subsidiary of ab smith entertainment.

Become Abel's Company.

This means that AMC TV has also become a brother company of MGM.

The problem that has plagued AMC for many years, and there are no good movie sources, has been swept away.

MGM has a library of more than 3000 movies and more than 4000 episodes of TV dramas.

In accordance with the corresponding fees and regulations, the licensed use is open to amc television.

In the past, AMC, which was sometimes "poor" and had to play black and white movies, suddenly became "rich".

The management of AMC, also at the request of Ab Smith Entertainment, immediately adjusted the development direction of the TV station.

AMC TV station, began to broadcast MGM's more popular movies.

This attracted a large number of viewers, and a small number of commercial breaks began to appear in the TV program.

Ratings increased more than 5% in one month as both the show and the movie were relatively new on the network.

Today, Abel appeared in the headquarters of AMC TV station.

Naturally he came prepared.

It wasn't long after Abel arrived at the company.

He announced the dismissal of AMC's original general manager Man Lester.

In the name of chairman, Abel was appointed to work at HBO TV before.

At HBO, Richard Plepler, Senior Deputy Liaison Officer and Advisor to the CEO.

Make Richard Plepler, the new general manager of AMC television.

Richard Plepler is a capable man.

In parallel time and space, he is known as the father of HBO.

Before he became the CEO of HBO.

HBO is just one of the many premium cable TV stations in the United States.

After Richard Plepler took over, HBO started its way to become a giant in the industry.

"The Black D Family", "Game of Thrones", etc., HBO's most popular TV series.

Both from Richard Plepler's tenure as CEO.

This time Abel did the same again.

It's the same as digging people over at Mickey Mouse Disney.

He poached Richard Plepler from HBO with better pay and a higher position.

And appointed Richard Plepler, as the new general manager of AMC.

Also at AMC, there are a series of other personnel appointments.

Just this morning, Abel can be said to have wiped out the original AMC TV station management.

A small number of former managers who were left behind were either adjusted or placed on probation.

Although Abel does.

AMC TV station will have to pay more than 2000 million U.S. dollars in firing fees, that is, dismissal fees.

But this also made the management of AMC TV station, the whole situation suddenly refreshed a lot.

At the new management meeting, Abel made several demands.

"The first request, I want AMC TV station to have "three new" every year from now on!"

"Three new, refers to a TV series with a single episode costing 300 million US dollars. AMC TV will release at least three TV series every year."

"The second requirement is outside the broadcast of movies and TV shows."

"AMC is going to expand into other areas. Like reality TV."

"By the way, this time I asked someone to find a retired soldier from the UK."

"He's also an explorer, his name is Bear Grylls, and he's publishing a book."

"I plan to let AMC TV station tailor a wilderness survival adventure reality show for this explorer!"

"How to do it specifically, let the screenwriter department and producers of AMC TV station submit a plan!"

Abel made many requests in one go.

In the end, he was in front of the new management of AMC TV station who didn't dare to say a word.

Said something that made them very happy.

"In addition to these requirements. I will inject [-] million US dollars into AMC TV next year."

"This is the start-up capital I gave you. I hope you can give me a passing grade!"

Let go of these requirements and leave the promise of a capital injection of [-] million US dollars.

Abel left as fast as he came.

He quickly left the meeting room.

Let the new management of AMC TV look at each other in the conference room.

Finally a new general manager, Richard Plepler, stepped up to clean up the situation.

"cough cough"

Richard Plepler coughed and cleared his throat.

"Boss' request, everyone has obviously heard it."

"I will stop talking nonsense. I think you have heard too much about our dear Mr. Abe Smith in the newspapers."

"Next, let me say a few words, just a few words."

"."

These few words from Richard Plepler.

It takes more than an hour to say.

Wait more than an hour later.

AMC TV, the new management, just came out of the office.

It was almost noon by now.

Richard Plepler was on the HBO side, and at this point was only one of the upper echelons.

There are at least five or six people in front of the CEO.

Although before that, the momentum and potential of HBO's development.

Much better than amc.

At the same time, HBO also relies on Time Warner, the super entertainment giant.

But the current amc is not much worse than HBO!

Backed by MGM.

What's more, AMC backed by Abel Smith's super golden bullet.

Richard Plepler is confident that it will develop better.

It will definitely not be worse than his original employer HBO!
A high-spirited Richard Plepler walked towards his new office, which he was still tidying up.

In a meeting room on the way, he met an AMC employee who was receiving a stranger who looked like a soldier in a military green uniform.

How could there be soldiers in the company?
Richard Plepler was curious, and the general manager couldn't help but walked over.

Then he knew.

Wearing army green clothes, a young man who looks like a soldier, his name is Bear Grylls.

It was the company's production department staff who received Bear Grylls.

The two parties are discussing that AMC TV will next create a wilderness survival adventure program tailored for Bear Grylls.

This moved Richard Plepler's heart.

Mr. New General Manager, but I remember being in the meeting just now.

Among the few speeches made by the boss, the young man Bear Grylls was specifically mentioned.

Richard Pleppler thought.

That means this Bear Grylls.

Either have a relationship or acquaintance with the boss.

Either that or Bear Grylls is really good, and the boss has taken a fancy to him in some way.

Thinking of this, the new general manager of AMC.

He smiled, and sat down in front of the somewhat nervous Bear Grylls.

He discussed it with Bear Grylls and the company's reality TV production department.

Abel here.

After resolutely solving the reform of AMC TV station and the appointment of new personnel.

He came to the Smith Building again.

The short selling on USD/JPY this time is since Abel came to Wall Street.

The most serious confrontation with Wall Street.

After establishing his own business, he can no longer borrow funds from other giants at will.

It's not impossible to use it.

It’s just that the cost will be a bit high, and it will be monitored, which may affect the result.

He doesn't want to do it again.

At least not this time.

So this investment means that he will be like other Wall Street investment banking giants.

Only through his own funds.

Or wrestle in the market with money from his own friendly merchant bank.

Smith Building, trading floor on the third floor.

Abel looked at the data on the screen wall.

The above shows the real-time exchange rate of USD/JPY at this time.

Stable around 107.500.

In other words, during the past two days, he was short-selling and lonely.

USD/JPY has never been really empty, and it has been maintained by the bulls.

This made Smith Capital's account a floating loss to about 3.5 million US dollars.

That is to say, he is on his way to AMC TV station back and forth.

He owed $[-] million.

The foreign exchange market is so risky.

At this time, David Mellon, who has the most confidence in him.

They all hesitated a little.

David couldn't help whispering to him:

“The situation is bad. From what I can find – Merrill Lynch, Lehman, Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns, JPMorgan, and a bunch of other investment banks are long USD/JPY.”

Abel was not surprised by the news.

To his surprise, among the names of these investment banks, he did not hear the name of Goldman Sachs.

"Where's Goldman Sachs?" Abel asked.

David Mellon shook his head and said:
"Goldman Sachs. Either they did it too secretly and successfully, and I didn't find out or feel it. Or Goldman Sachs didn't end this time."

"The former one is unlikely. The investment banks are all gone, and they don't hide it. It makes no sense that Goldman Sachs would spend so much effort to cover it up."

Hearing what David said, Abel frowned, "You mean, Goldman Sachs didn't end this time?"

"That's a possibility. But the former possibility is also there. Or Goldman is waiting for what they think is the right moment."

David said: "We can't take it lightly anyway. Goldman Sachs doesn't look like it can let this kind of thing go."

Abel nodded, and he thought so too.

Last time he had David Mellon let out a smoke bomb.

Those who can't wait to come out to eat the bait are Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers.

This time Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers were not absent as usual.

It makes no sense that Goldman Sachs would be absent.

"BOSS." David said softly:

"To be honest, I'm a little nervous right now. I've already lost $3.5 million. Look, it's $3.8 million now."

"Don't you believe me?" Abel replied to him.

David said firmly and immediately: "Believe it!"

Abel's investment experience over the past year.

It has long allowed David to develop the habit of blind obedience.

This time it was a bit of a loss, the first time Smith Capital lost so much.

David began to doubt life a little.

But when Abel wanted to ask this question, David still answered decisively.

"That's all right?" Abel patted him on the shoulder.

"Trust me, brother. In the field of finance, I am god."

"It's up to you here, as long as it doesn't exceed 107.800, or doesn't fall to 107.200, you don't need to notify me."

"With the current amount and speed of funds, just continue to buy short orders."

"As soon as you reach these two cordons, then notify me immediately."

"do you understand?"

The boss gave such a direct order.

Even if David Mellon didn't understand it, he chose to implement it resolutely.

"Understood." David said.

Abel smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

Finally, I looked at the USD/JPY quotes on the wall of the screen for a while.

Reassure yourself that your "talent" hasn't changed.

Only then did he leave Smith Building in peace.

Arriving at the parking lot in front of the building, Abel noticed that it was snowing again in New York.

New York started in November this year, and it snowed for almost a month in mid-December.

It has been ten days since December 20th, and there has been no snow in the middle.

It started snowing again today.

This means that the weather is going to be cold again.

Abel shook his head. He knew that January would be the coldest time in New York.

If it weren't for the Smith Building, he couldn't leave for the time being.

Right now, he probably has to go to Los Angeles to avoid the cold.

Although it wasn't snowing heavily at this time, he was also worried that the snow would get bigger along the way.

Taking a helicopter like that would be much more dangerous.

To be on the safe side, he chose to take a car into Manhattan.

Thinking of this, he got into the Cadillac STS in the middle of the convoy.

The convoy left the Smith Building in the snow.

after an hour.

He appeared on the No. 18th floor of the Carnegie Hill Building that he hasn't returned for a long time.

Here he has a luxury apartment with 7 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms with an interior area of ​​7500 square feet.

Downstairs from the apartment is Fifth Avenue, and across the road is Central Park.

It was snowing heavily.

The entire Central Park was dyed white.

Looking down from the eighteen-story building, it looks very beautiful.

In the warm living room of the apartment.

When Abel appeared.

Anne Hathaway has no image, holding a large bucket of potato chips, lying on the sofa in the posture of "Ge You lying" watching TV.

Abel noticed that the station she was watching was AMC Cable.

AMC is playing what looks like an old James Bond movie.

She seemed to be very absorbed in the sound of Jinna opening the door to let Abel in.

She didn't hear it.

Jinna was about to call her, but was stopped by Abel.

Abel stopped, motioned Jinna to leave Annie alone, and told Jinna to go to a small room to the side.

Gina Korshunova, one of the former members of the Swallows, in her 40s, felt a little nervous.

[The boss is not interested in me, is he? 】

[I am in my 40s. 】

【But it’s not impossible. When I was young, I was also very beautiful!】

[Maybe the boss would like this one? 】

With such an "uneasy" mentality.

Jin Na followed the boss to the small room.

when she noticed.

The only ones who came into the small room were Abel.

There are also two male bodyguards, Edward and Johnson.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

With the boss's terrifyingly powerful desire for monopoly.

There were other men in the room.

That means that the boss should not be interested in him.

Jin Na was a little annoyed by this—【When my mother was young, she was really a flower】!
Then Jinna heard the boss say to her:
"Jinna, I remember the information said that you are from the former Republic of Sakha, right?"

Jin Na's heart skipped a beat, wondering why the boss asked this all of a sudden.

But she still nodded honestly: "Yes."

(End of this chapter)