America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 239
Smith Capital naturally knew about the entry of the neon man.

After all, compared to the US dollar/yen, US dollar/sterling, and US dollar/euro market.

The plates for USD/NOK are too small.

The admission of tens of millions of dollars may not be obvious.

Hundreds of millions of funds.

Once admitted, it is easy to know whether someone has entered through the change of data.

Use the metaphor of games or gambling.

The big plate of USD/JPY is a super battle royale and big VS gambling with tens of thousands of participants.

Every day someone enters the arena, and every day there are people who lose a lot and leave the arena with their underwear lost.

For a small plate like USD/NOK, for institutions, it is usually a one-on-one game of cards, or several institutions and companies fight against the landlord in it.

If a large institution goes down, sometimes the plate will expand in the short term.

The result of the expansion is that the country's sovereign currency exchange rate will be a mess.

If one is not good, it will even affect the country's domestic economic development situation.

Like the economic crisis in Southeast Asia a few years ago, it was under the massacre and shock of international hot capital that the economic accumulation that had been developed for more than ten years was lost, and the vitality was severely damaged.

Like the current USD/NOK, except for those long-term holding institutions.Before that, only some small retail investors were playing.

The bet between Smith Capital and the neon people.In a very short period of time, it caused great fluctuations in the exchange rate of this country.

This kind of volatility, retail investors who specialize in foreign exchange, and institutions that have thousands of analysts who are watching market changes every day.

You will soon notice the difference.

Goldman Sachs Investment Bank.

The analysts of the Market Surveillance Department will report immediately after discovering this situation.

It took a little more time, and Goldman Sachs' Market Surveillance Department quickly discovered who the long and short sides were in the USD/NOK fight.

The person in charge of the Ministry of Supervision, upload this matter.

Paulson, the CEO who was chatting with visiting Wall Street bulldog Richard Fuld, also knew about it.

"Is there any secret? Then I'll go first." The CEO of Lehman Brothers Bank said with a smile.

Richard came over and was going to talk to Goldman about repackaging junk bonds.

In 1998, Lehman Brothers nearly collapsed.

Richard Fuld saved Lehman Brothers.

The method used by this Wall Street bulldog at that time was to package those financial products such as mortgages into securities for sale.

This approach has gained great recognition from the market in the context of the overall rise in US real estate.

This model, known as subprime mortgages, saved Lehman Brothers from bankruptcy.

It is also the main profit point of Lehman Brothers Bank in the past two years.

Richard Fuld came to Goldman Sachs this time just to talk to Paulson about this business.

Paulson thought about it and felt that this was not a secret.

The CEO of Goldman Sachs said: "It's not a secret. It's our Mr. Director, and he appeared on the international foreign exchange market again."

Paulson's "Mr. Our Director" made Richard Fuld stunned.

As the second of the five largest investment banks on Wall Street, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers have a lot of directors.

If someone is careful to track it down, they will find those big Wall Street investment banks.

Many of the shareholders behind them are the same person, or the same family, and the same institution.

Of course, not all of them, just some of them.

However, Richard Fuld combined Paulson's attributives of making troubles in the foreign exchange market.

Coupled with the foreign exchange incident that happened not long ago, which made Richard Fuld feel pained.

Richard Fuld knew who Paulson was talking about.

"Has it started again?" Richard Fuld asked curiously, "Which plate is it this time?"

"USD/NOK," Paulson said.

"USD/NOK? Not much trading volume for that currency pair?" said Richard Fuld:

"The transaction is too difficult and the risk is too high. Is he playing alone?"

"Currently there is a neon man off. He is betting against the neon man." Paulson said.

"Oh, Neon Man." Richard Fuld nodded.

On Wall Street, or in international financial markets.

The "Neon people" that everyone refers to generally refers to the national team of Neon.

Because Neon is local, there are no strong financial oligarchs at all.

Their financial giants can only be active within their own country.

Like other countries, their financial oligarchs are harvested internationally by European and American capital.

So except for Wall Street and some European capital.

In the international capital and financial market, as long as you talk about "someone from a certain country".

That generally refers to the national team of this country.

For example, people from the Celestial Dynasty, that is, the national team on the side of the rabbit has ended.

In the international financial capital market, "neon people" have always been relatively active.

After all, their currency is one of the international currencies, and when it accounted for the highest proportion of the world's foreign exchange reserves, it once reached 20%.

Although it is not as good as it was then, it is still close to 12%.

It is currently the second largest currency in circulation in the world.

The third is the euro, which is currently about 10%.

The fourth is the British pound, which is currently about 5.9%.

It goes without saying who the first one is.

Due to its particularity, "Neon Man" is relatively active in the international foreign exchange market.

But it is generally only active in foreign exchange transactions against the yen.

It is not to say that there are no such cases of being active in the currencies of other countries.

But also relatively rare.

Richard Fuld thought for a while and said:

"Are you interested? Maybe we can take a look, maybe we can accompany our director, and see if we can cut the flesh of the Neon man."

Paulson glanced at Richard Fuld, who was smiling at him.

The CEO of Goldman Sachs understands that it is true that the Wall Street bulldog wants to cut the flesh of Neon people.

But never thought of revenge.

In the previous USD/JPY session, four of the five major investment banks suffered heavy losses.

Lehman Brothers bears the brunt of the losses, with the exception of Merrill Lynch.

Later Richard Fuld, although he had conceded defeat to Abel.

But it doesn't mean that Lehman Brothers or Richard Fuld will admit defeat.

On Wall Street, winning and losing are commonplace for financial capitalists.

As long as there is no injury, as long as someone can take responsibility.

As long as it is profitable, it is not impossible to end up again.

But Paulson made up his mind not to participate indiscriminately.

Paulson's contact with Texas is getting closer and closer, which is even what the Goldman Sachs board hopes Paulson can do.

In this case, Paulson would try to avoid confrontation with Abel.

Paulson felt that even the Goldman Sachs board.After knowing the reason why I did this, there is a high probability that I will agree.

Thinking of this, Paulson shook his head lightly:

"Goldman Sachs will take a relatively conservative investment attitude in the near future. For international foreign exchange and hedging, Goldman Sachs will not enter the market in the near future."

Richard Fuld did not quite believe his explanation.

But Wall Street Bulldog thought about it.

It seems that after Paulson came to power, Goldman Sachs has been a lot more conservative in the past two years.

Perhaps this is Paulson's strategy?
Richard Fuld isn't sure.

The CEO of Lehman Brothers simply stood up and bid farewell to Paulson.

"Okay. I see Goldman Sachs." Richard Fuld said:

"But I want to take a look at the excitement. We'll talk about the subprime mortgage next time."

"see you later."

Paulson waved off Richard Fuld.

Although the CEO of Goldman Sachs intends not to end the game, he does not hinder the excitement.

Paulson asked the Market Supervision Department to closely monitor USD/NOK and report any situation.

It's a conversation between Paulson and Richard Fuld.

It also appeared among the top executives of many Wall Street investment banks.

After the last USD/JPY.

All Wall Street investment banks have already mentioned the highest level of attention and monitoring to Smith Capital.

This time Smith Capital entered, if it was those currency exchanges with relatively large plates, or if it was not so urgent to open a position.

They may not find out so quickly.

But this time Smith Capital entered USD/NOK, which is a very small currency pair.

And he didn't hide it when he entered the venue, there was a lot of movement.

Coupled with the addition of neon people, the traces are very obvious.

It quickly drew everyone's attention to the actions of Smith Capital.

This naturally attracted everyone's attention.

Realize a little bit.

Treat the international foreign exchange market at this time as a big casino.

That USD/NOK is on this small table.

At this time, the two big players, Smith Capital and Nihongren, have already begun to bet against each other.

The table of the two big players was already full of chips.

Surrounded by a large number of small leek retail players, they can't wait to throw their own coins on the gaming table.

Surrounding them, the big players and giants in the casino were full of onlookers. Their pockets were all bulging, and they were full of chips.

Whether the big players onlookers will leave depends only on the betting situation of the two big players on the field.

Generally speaking, this is the most likely situation to happen.

It is when two big players are betting against each other, and one of them is at a disadvantage.

The big players onlookers will join the side that is about to win with a high probability, and make profits by beating the dog in the water.

At this time, the two big players who were watched would naturally bear the greatest pressure.

Akihiko Kuroda quickly discovered this under the reminder of his subordinates.

Smith Capital here.

Smith Building, fourth floor.

After noon, the entire fourth floor has been sealed off as a safe house for this investment.

In the office, David Mellon reported the situation to Abel.

"At present, we have invested 20 billion funds, five times the leverage, and opened a position of [-] USD/NOK."

"The funding party for the VAM should be the Nihong people, and the number of hands they open positions is about the same as ours."

"The current real-time exchange rate is 7.6048. We have lost a little spread, and there are some interest fees."

"Norway's economy has been unscientifically strong recently. I hate this kind of oil hegemony country the most. Just digging a new oil mine can give them economic benefits for a long time."

Abel nodded with a smile, and he said to David Mellon:
"Don't forget that the United States is also an oil hegemonic country. The United States has no less oil reserves and natural gas reserves than other countries."

"Okay. You're right." David asked, "So boss, what's next?"

"Another 20 billion funds will be invested, and the goal is still [-] lots. But this time, the speed of building positions will be slower."

Abel said: "As long as our margin account is not exhausted, it will take about ten days to open this [-] lot position contract."

"Keep a rhythm?" David said. "I see."

Abel stood up on the sofa, walked over and patted David on the shoulder.

"This time, I just wanted to cut the Neon Man's flesh. But now I find that the game may be more interesting."

"Then why don't we try to make the game as fun as possible?"

"That's it, David, do your job well, and notify me immediately if there is any situation, and I will leave first."

"clear."

Abel and David walked out of the office, and David walked to the trading floor.

The CEO of Smith Capital is about to start working day and night again.

Abel walked towards the elevator, feeling relieved to have David staring at him.

What's more, if something goes wrong, talent will remind him.

When he was about to reach the elevator, Edward, who had been silently following him, suddenly came over.

"BOSS, mobile number one."

Edward handed him a cell phone, number one for Abel's own personal contacts.

Only his wife and relatives have the number of this mobile phone.

Abel took a look and found that it was a call from little Laura who had just left last night.

He answered smoothly: "Hello?"

"Honey, have you had lunch yet?"

From the microphone of the mobile phone, there was some noisy voice from Little Laura.

She seemed to be in a public place and it sounded like there were a lot of people around.

"Not yet, I'm about to eat." Abel responded softly.

"Oh, me too. I'm eating in the student cafeteria," said little Laura.

After confirming the relationship, little Laura had the most frequent phone calls, sometimes making several calls a day.

Fortunately, it was basically just chatting a few words, which belonged to the style of normal boyfriend and girlfriend.

And he didn't ask questions to bore Abel.

Abel felt that he could accept it, and he himself liked this kind of relatively light romance.

Eat too much big fish and big meat.

It is also a good choice to have some light porridge to reconcile your appetite once in a while.

But little Laura seemed to have something to do with this phone call.

She asked: "By the way, dear, I have a question for you."

"Ok?"

"Your company. Did you ever recruit an employee named Catherine Jones, a female secretary?"

Hearing the name Catherine Jones, Abel was stunned.

It sounded familiar to him, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

"I seem to have some impressions. Oh~" he remembered, "I had it last year, and then she resigned at the end of the year. What's the matter?"

This very beautiful girl, Abe remembered as an FBl.

In the beginning, it was a pawn buried by FBl beside him.

Later, it seems that the small bush basically declared victory.

The smart people at FBl removed her in advance when she might be exposed.

"Hey, it's good to have this person. It's nothing, I just ask." Little Laura said sweetly.

"Honey, I'm going to eat lunch. Remember to eat too, I'll hang up first."

"OK, all right."

Little Laura hung up the phone first.

Abel felt a little baffled, wondering why she suddenly asked a female FBl.

But this is a trivial matter, and Abel didn't bother too much.

He quickly left the Smith Building, stuck in traffic for about half an hour, and the convoy arrived in Queens.

Located in the east of New York City, it is the largest and second most populous district among the five districts of New York, as well as the second most economically developed district.

A large part of the exterior scenes of the MGM version of "Spider-Man" were shot here.

Because in the comics, Parker, the "failed man", lives here.

MGM's version of "Spider-Man" has started shooting on NO.20 last month.

The estimated shooting time is four months, and post-editing and special effects will take five to six months.

It is expected to be released early next year.

Because of Abel's request, and the character image and acting skills are indeed in line with Parker's reasons.

The MGM version of Spider-Man is also Tobey Maguire.

Mainly, the Spider-Man in Abel's impression should be the Toby Spider in "I want to sprinkle some ashes in your eyes".

One of the other two spiders is too young, he is just a younger brother, which does not meet the giant positioning of Spider-Man in the MGM version of the Marvel Universe.

The other spider is too handsome and too genius to fit the "failed man" definition.

Even in some comics, Parker is indeed an advanced technological genius.

But now that there's a Tony, Parker doesn't have to show off his super tech genius mind.

Parker in the MGM version of the Marvel Universe needs to show his closeness and ordinaryness, as well as his reversal into a hero.

This is different from the "ordinary" that the US team is too tall.

Parker's ordinary, the more grounded the better.

Among the three spiders, Abel felt that the most suitable one was the old spider Tobey Maguire.

The filming location of the crew today is in Forest Hills, Queens.

In the plots of comics and movies, this is Parker's lair.

It is also one of the civilian areas in Queens, where there are at least a dozen or twenty shootings a year.

When Abel arrived, the crew was filming the first scene of Parker turning into a spider.

The arrival of a large group of them naturally attracted the attention of the crew.

The sudden appearance of so many people shocked the crew.

I thought there was some gangster incident.

After all, in a place like Forest Mountain, it is not surprising that this kind of thing happened.

Director Sam Raimi didn't know Abel was coming.

The director was so anxious that he immediately went to the rock security staff who was in charge of the crew's security work.

However, the ordinary security staff of Rock, who were responsible for the security work of the crew, did not respond.

Sam Remy was in a daze when he saw Anne Hathaway who had finished shooting today.

She suddenly rushed out of the crew and rushed towards the large group of outsiders.

Sam Raimi was startled.

This is the aunt of the crew.

Anyone on the crew can have an accident, including myself and Tobey Maguire.

Nothing can happen to this one.

Sam Remy was about to call for someone, but saw Annie rushed in and was hugged by a man.

The two also gnawed in public.

Sam Raimi froze.

Oh, here comes Abe Smith.

Sam Raimi thought.

(End of this chapter)