America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 238 The target this time is in Europe
What surprised little Laura was that Abel had found a designer for "Lauren's Flower".

It's a little-known female designer named Zaha Hadid.

This female designer named Zaha Hadid has a private studio and is about 50 years old this year.

On an estate with 81 acres that has yet to be knocked down.

Little Laura watched Abel discuss with each other.

"Oh my God, Mr. Smith, according to your plan. The high-energy cement and steel bars that need to be used will be astronomical."

"Maybe building a skyscraper may not necessarily use so much steel and cement."

The speaker is architectural designer Zaha Hadid.

Zaha Hadid in 2001 now.

Her fame is not that big yet.Has not yet been dubbed the "Devil of Architectural Design".

At this time, Zaha Hadid was just a well-known but controversial designer in the architectural design industry.

Before 2001, she only had four designs.

One is a fire station in the town of Weil on the Rhine in Germany.

There is also a Rosenthal Center for Modern Art in Cincinnati, USA.

A car park in Strasbourg, France.

and a ski resort in Innsbruck, Austria.

These places and buildings are not well-known just by looking at their names.

They are only in the industry, known for their outrageous designs, and super exaggerated difficulty of construction.

But as long as ordinary people who have seen these buildings see what they look like.

A cultured person might use some poems, or even come up with a prose, to praise them.

People who are uneducated, or who have a blunt personality like Anne Hathaway.

See these buildings designed by Zaha Hadid.

Those who speak Chinese probably just say "Fuck".

For those who speak English, it is probably "fxxk".

This master of deconstruction of modern architecture, the designs she handles are invariably outrageous and graceful in terms of lines.

In terms of construction difficulty and construction cost, without exception, the relevant civil engineering dogs will be called Fake.

Little Laura did not understand this.

She's a smart girl, and she knows even if she doesn't know Zaha Hadid.

Abel was able to find Zaha Hadid, so there must be a reason for him.

Little Laura didn't chatter like the other women, or ask questions curiously.

She just smiled and listened to the conversation between Abel and Zaha Hadid.

Even if little Laura has dissatisfaction or doubts in her heart, she will only do so at the right time.

Or in the case of only two people, it is appropriate to propose to Abel.

Little Laura heard Abel say to Zaha Hadid:

"I know what you said. Ms. Hadid, what I want is a unique house that is not available in the world. I also know that the cost of making it appear will be very exaggerated. I have already prepared for this. Just tell me if you can design it."

"of course can."

Zaha Hadid hardly gave it a second thought.

". There is a solution to your request in terms of civil engineering and construction."

Zaha Hadid drew a small hill in the middle of 81 acres of land on simple grass paper.

Zaha surrounded the hill in a circle, and then said: "The area of ​​the top of this small hill is about 250 square meters."

"The circle I surrounded is about [-] square meters."

"According to your idea, Mr. Smith. Then we can irrigate all the reinforced concrete in this circle, and build it up to the level of the hill."

"That way, you get a man-made platform of more than 4000 square meters."

Abel took a look at Zaha Hadid's sketch, and he found that the circle basically encloses the entire hill from its foot.

In other words, if you really want to pile up, you have to pile up from the foot of the hill to the top of the mountain.

With reinforced concrete, there are countless building materials.

The cost involved does not require much architectural knowledge, and ordinary people would think it is very exaggerated when they think about it.

But Abel had other considerations, he said with a smile: "Give me a design drawing, and a project cost calculation."

Zaha Hadid nodded: "No problem. But even if you don't adopt it, my studio will still charge money."

"Of course." Abel smiled and said, "There will be no less money."

Only then did Zaha Hadid smile, "Then my studio and I will be happy to help you."

Zaha Hadid was sent away.

As soon as she left, little Laura said softly:

"This Ms. Zaha Hadid, I have never heard of her name."

Abel knew what little Laura meant, and he was prepared.

"Edward," Abel called.

Edward came over immediately, holding a file bag in his hand.

Abel took the portfolio from Edward and gave it to little Laura.

"Here are four works designed by Zaha Hadid, some photos of them."

Little Laura took it curiously, not knowing what Abel meant.

But when she and Abel took the boat and returned to Manhattan halfway.

Little Laura understood what Abel meant.

Because these Zaha Hadid designs, they look too beautiful, too artistic, too designed.

Everything fell into the eyes of little Laura, which made her amazed.

When the two went ashore, Little Laura also agreed in her heart to Zaha Hadid as the designer of her and Abel's future love nest.

Spend a whole day with little Laura.

Monday the next day.

day.

Little Laura went to class.

Anne Hathaway filmed a night scene the day before yesterday. When Abel and little Lauren went out to play yesterday, Anne made up for the day at home.

Little Laura is going to school today.

Annie is also going to Queens to shoot a movie.

Abel had to be free, thinking that he hadn't cut leeks for almost a month.

The leeks on the international market have been recuperating for a month.

It is also fat enough to be harvested.

At noon, he came to the Smith Building where Smith Capital is located.

Once at the company, he went straight to CEO David Mellon.

"Call a hundred of the best traders." Abel said:

"Just tell them that the king of Smith Kingdom is going to lead his knights to fight in the battlefield again."

"Oh~YES!" David raised his hands and jumped very high, looking very excited.

David went out to gather people, and Abel waited in the office for about 10 minutes.

David came in excitedly to inform him that everything was ready.

This speed is so fast, it is estimated that the employees of Smith Capital gathered together as soon as they heard the summoning order.

Abel came outside immediately.

"Knights! Your king is about to lead you to fight in the territory of money, and to lead you in the world of capital!"

David Mellon stood on the high platform and started his very routine speech again.

"Now!"

"For your king—hail!"

David Mellon was greeted with enthusiastic cheers.

In the midst of cheers.

Abel smiled and raised a finger, and the hundred traders who were picked out immediately stopped cheering.

Abel took the microphone handed over by David, under the overall atmosphere of a little middle school.

Abel couldn't help but put it together.

He laughed and said—

"Want a bonus?"

"Want more lucrative income?"

"Want more dollars?"

"Go ahead, I put them all on the computer in front of you."

"Now, now, now!"

"Start your work!"

After Abel waved his hand.

These elites who are almost all graduated from the Ivy League, just like the pirates in One Piece who go out to sea to grab One piece, quickly returned to their seats and sat down.

They looked up, like schoolchildren looking at their teacher, at Abel, their King Smith.

With his back to them, Abel was looking at the financial information on the wall of screens, and he was picking the lucky ones.

"Just pick..."

"USD/NOK!"

Abel picked a "lucky guy" at random.

Norway is a Nordic country.

Among the five Nordic countries, the economy and currency are relatively strong.

Its overall plate is not bad. On the information wall of the screen, Abel also saw that the currency of this country has fluctuated greatly in the past few days.

This made him set his sights on this lucky guy.

Talent told him what to do next.

Abel smiled and said: "Do more, let us help the lovely Americans and Norwegians, so that the US dollar can be exchanged for more Norwegian kroner. This will make it easier for Americans to travel to Norway for consumption, and Norwegians can also earn American dollars, let's do the best of both worlds."

Either short or long.

As long as it can make money, the traders of Smith Capital listened to Abel's instructions with maximum listening.

Abe glanced again at the real-time exchange rate on the screen wall, USD/NOK: 7.6049.

"Buy 10 lots first, hold long positions, and pay attention to consumer offsets!" Abel said.

After he gave the order to trade.

The "knights" of Smith Capital get to work.

The plate of this currency pair is obviously not as big as USD/JPY or USD/GBP.

Norway's economy is not comparable to that of the UK or Neon.

With the rapid influx of Abel's funds, the exchange rate of USD/NOK rose rapidly.

Just two hours.

Its price has already reached the point of 7.6111.

That is, one US dollar can be exchanged for 7.6111 Norwegian krone.

There is no doubt that this is an appreciation of the dollar, and it is going too much.

But for NOK, it has depreciated.

On the surface, it seems that Smith Capital has made a profit of 61 points at this time.

If you only look at the number of floating profit points, you can indeed say the same.

However, the increase in these points is actually a large amount of funds invested by Smith Capital, because it is doing long orders in US dollars, which led to the rise.

If Smith Capital chooses to close all positions and throw them away at this time.

It is impossible to keep this exchange rate unchanged after throwing a huge amount of money away.

Floating profit points will definitely fall accordingly.

After all the long positions of Smith Capital are closed and sold, it is estimated that the exchange rate will even drop to a lower level than when he bought it.

Under the offset of the two.

Don't talk about making money, you may even lose money.

A normal investment bank would be very cautious when it comes to this kind of operation.

Unless there is really a big market, such as the previous black swan market like the USD/JPY.

If there is no big market, or an international black swan event.

For a currency with a small plate like USD/NOK, no one dares to spend such a sum of money at once.

If it is the normal operation of those big investment banks.

Be careful with that.If you want to short or long a country's currency, you need to slowly hold a small amount of positions in multiple times, and then sell and leave the market at the right time.

There is only Abel who relies on talent to operate.How dare you act so recklessly.

Talent is willfulness.

Smith Capital's follow-up funds are still entering and building positions one after another.

Abe told the traders and David to keep an eye on the market.

He was going back to the office for a cup of coffee.

David, who had been watching the market closely, suddenly shouted: "Boss, someone has entered the market."

An hour ago.

Neon, Tokyo.

Neon Bank, in the central bank building.

Akihiko Kuroda was sipping his coffee, with one hand in his pocket, walking around among hundreds of elite traders at work.

Akihiko Kuroda belongs to a special economic action group at Neon Central Bank.

The so-called Special Economic Action Group is actually the investment institution of the Neon Central Bank.

Mainly responsible for the central bank's investment activities, including long and short positions, arbitrage, equity, global macro, insurance, absolute return, momentum, multi-strategy, etc.

To put it simply, the so-called special economic action group is a group responsible for earning profits for the Neon Central Bank from the international market.

At the same time, it also has the responsibility of stabilizing the exchange rate of the Neon country and the domestic economic situation of the Neon country.

There are many groups like Akihiko Kuroda, and his group is just one of the more outstanding and elite economic groups.

The central banks of most countries also have such organizations.

They are also in a similar role to Kuroda's team, responsible for the international interests of their central banks and countries.

The foreign exchange, futures, insurance and stock transactions of those central banks in the world are all executed by such organizations.

Including the rabbit side, there are some similar personnel.

These people can also be called the national team.

Sometimes even those consortiums in the United States will take on such a role.

That is, it generally requires the Federal Reserve to come forward to organize and even provide funds.

Then the financial capitalists in the United States will end up hypocritical.

Who is the central bank of the United States, it is a private bank.

As one of the leaders of the national team members of the Neon Central Bank, Akihiko Kuroda is actually of average ability.

Many high-level people, or the elites of Neon Bank, know this.

Akihiko Kuroda can act as the team leader because he has a good brother.

Who called his brother Nishihiko Kuroda, who is the current president of Neon Bank.

Everyone else knew that he was able to climb to this position because he had a good family background and a good brother.

This is normal in Neon. Family background, connections, and nepotism are far more important than ability in Neon.

But Akihiko Kuroda didn't think so. He felt that he could be the team leader because of his ability.

Apart from his elder brother, his subordinates and friends have always praised him in this way.

In addition, after working for more than a year, everything went smoothly.

Akihiko Kuroda has always felt that he is a financial genius who is one in a thousand.

When Abel placed Smith Capital entry USD/NOK.

Akihiko Kuroda was happily drinking coffee when suddenly one of his subordinates shouted loudly:
"Master Kuroda, come and take a look. Among the rice animal funds we are concerned about, one of them has been captured by us."

Kuroda Akihiko was taken aback, and walked over quickly.

"Nani?! Where is it? Do you know which rice animal consortium is the fund?"

"Look. We tracked it down. This fund has just entered USD/NOK in a big way. This currency pair has risen by more than 60 points in just two hours! This plate has now reached more than 100 billion U.S. dollars from the original five billion U.S. dollars. Over $[-] billion!"

Akihiko Kuroda frowned.

The plate has reached more than 100 billion US dollars from more than [-] billion US dollars.

This means that the other party may have invested billions of dollars in a short period of time.

So confident?

Is this a short-term trade or a long-term trade?
If it is short-term trading, this is too risky.

So much money is invested in a currency pair with a small plate. If it is long-term, it is okay, but if it is short-term, it is really a big risk.

"Master Kuroda? What are we going to do now? Do we want to target him?"

his men asked aloud.

Although a fool, Akihiko Kuroda is also a student who graduated from the Finance Department of Dongda University.

It's hard to say whether a student is a top student or not.

But Akihiko Kuroda has no shortage of knowledge in the financial field.

Otherwise, just relying on his family background, he would not be able to be the team leader.

Akihiko Kuroda knew that anything could happen in the foreign exchange market.

Sometimes the market is already very good, and when you are shorting, you just encounter a sharp drop in the currency, and you can harvest and leave the market.

But often an accidental event causes the exchange rate to rise suddenly, many giants enter the market, and then the good situation that could have been profitable is instantly destroyed.

This kind of thing is very common in the foreign exchange market, and Akihiko Kuroda himself has experienced it.

Trading on the foreign exchange market.

No matter how cautious you are, you can't be too cautious.

"One more time. I'll take a look."

Akihiko Kuroda said calmly.

Akihiko Kuroda quickly ordered the traders to check the recent economic situation in Norway and Europe, as well as some economic news in Norway.

The result of the query is Norway's economy and exchange rate. Compared with Europe and the euro, it has been stronger recently.

We must know that after the new century, Nasdaq was implicated in the bursting of the Internet bubble.

The U.S. stock market is in mourning.The U.S. stock market is also a barometer of the world economy.

The barometer is not good, and of course the global economy will also be affected. Therefore, the global economy as a whole has experienced a slight decline recently.

Europe is not immune either.

However, Norway has done the opposite during this period, and its economy is generally much better than its neighbors.

During this period of time, Norway's economy has gone against the general trend of the world, and it has actually been on the rise.

As Norway's sovereign currency, the Norwegian krone is naturally on the rise.

A week ago, USD/NOK was 7.6190.

The current level of around 7.6100 is the result of its continued strength.

Before being suppressed, it was even 7.6049.

After Akihiko Kuroda finished reading it, he was very satisfied.

Because he found that the Norwegian krone will continue to strengthen this time
Its power mainly comes from Norway, because of the discovery of two new oil fields and three new gas fields.

These five oil and gas deposits are still very high in content.

So much so that it has driven the overall GDP of the country.

This is undoubtedly a big guarantee for the Norwegian krone.

Akihiko Kuroda decided to give it a try.

"Mobilize funds. Let's enter the market. Short USD/NOK, and this time we will hit these rice animals hard. Let these nasty white pigs know that we are not easy to mess with."

Akihiko Kuroda said calmly.

"Master Kuroda, how much money should we enter?"

"A billion dollars. Accessed via a margin account."

"Ok."

Traders operate quickly.

A margin account of 10 billion US dollars is operated. If someone provides leverage, it can reach billions of dollars or tens of billions of dollars.

It's just that the risks are high.

If you use your own funds to enter, the loss you can bear with 100 billion US dollars of your own funds is all, and no matter how much it falls, it will not fall.

But if it is a margin transaction, sometimes a few points may lead to liquidation.Once the position is liquidated, there will be no particles left.

Akihiko Kuroda's transaction request of 10 billion margin leverage multiples was quickly replied after sending out.

Due to his elder brother, Akihiko Kuroda has a high status inside the Neon Bank.

The bank quickly approved the application.

With a leverage of ten times, after entering this plate, it will be an empty order of 100 billion US dollars.

This caused the exchange rate of the US dollar to Norwegian krone, which had risen rapidly by dozens of points, to fall again, even falling by more than the number of points that rose.

Looking at his own results, Akihiko Kuroda showed a smug smile.

Now he wants to see how the rice animals respond.

If the other party opens a position again, he will continue to suppress.

If the other party does not increase their positions, Norway's own domestic economic situation will cause the USD/NOK to fall by itself.

Either way, it is bearish for USD/NOK.

Then Akihiko Kuroda and his team can profit.

(End of this chapter)