Chapter 184

Chapter 184: Support of the Bush family

December 24, 2000 has arrived.

This day according to European and American traditions will be called Christmas Eve or Christmas Eve.

is a relatively important holiday in Western countries.

Christmas Eve is said to be the day before Asus was born.

Asu was the son of God, born in a manger and passed the night safely. Christians call it Christmas Eve to celebrate this night.

Also, it should be mentioned that foreigners do not eat apples on Christmas Eve.

People's Apple is an apple and Ping An is safe.

European and American countries that celebrate this holiday often eat turkey.

But it's not absolute, every country has its favorite dish on this day.

For example, Americans, several things that must be eaten on Christmas Eve are turkey, various pies, almond cakes, and fruit cakes.

Anyway, there are no apples.

Eating apples on Christmas Eve is a Chinese characteristic.

Christmas Eve this year.

For many LSPs around the world, other than looking for an opportunity to let the girl i shoot tonight. They also have more waiting time.

It's a Christmas Eve show in Elizabeth's backyard!

To increase their popularity and visibility, there is also the company's reputation.

For the first Isha program this year, Isha company decided to open and provide free broadcasting rights to the world.

Any TV station or media company that comes to the filming location will go to the filming location.

If they want to broadcast live, as long as their hardware is qualified, they can broadcast live at will. For media and TV channels that cannot attend the live broadcast or even go to the filming location.

ISA will also carefully prepare its cameramen to shoot all kinds of amazing MV videos throughout the process.

Then provide these videos for free to television stations or media agencies that have ideas and needs.

It's a bit similar to the beginning of the NBA, what David Stern did when he wanted to increase the popularity of the NBA around the world.

Get famous first and talk about making money later!

Without America's broadband today, it would not support high-definition video streaming. Abel wants to broadcast Issa's first show live on the Internet for free.

It can be said that it is because of the popularity and reputation of Yisha Company.

This is Isa's first show, Abel is actually losing money in business.

And thank you Abel, the first generation traffic king in the United States.

In coordination with Isha company, the preliminary preparation work has been done quite well. The five major television networks in the United States as well as many cable networks sent reporters and photographers.

With the support of the Isa Group and even the secret support of the New York City government.

Yisha Company's first annual performance tonight has attracted enough attention.

What to see next.

These are Isa's little angels if they can attract attention in the big show. Let's see if they can really make their beauty and sexiness known to the world.

What Abel and Isa could do for them was done.

The rest is their duty.

But in reality, most of them are normal people or LSPs pay attention to them.

Most social elites don't care about it. They don't lick the screen.

They can play for real if they want.

Even if you can't play with Abel's limitations.

They can also play with the same quality.

Compared to these occasional "hobbies" in their eyes. These elites value their own status more.

And money and power can bring them status.

Like Paulson, the chairman of Goldman Sachs, although he is also in New York.

But Paulson doesn't care one bit about Issa's damn performance.

Paulson is interested in something other than his next career in the future. This is the performance of Goldman Sachs and its own revenue.

These last two often complement each other.

That is, as chairman of Goldman Sachs.

Of course, Paulson is most interested in business.

Like now, when I found out that Smith Capital was me at Goldman Sachs without even knowing it. After purchasing 1.3% of Goldman Sachs shares on the secondary market.

Paulson couldn't sit still.

"What is he trying to do?" Paulson frowned.

Dear CEO, when receiving the news.

I just checked out the company's fixed-income materials division. So the person who can answer his question is of course the head of fixed income commodities, who is currently standing in front of Paulson, 46-year-old Lold Blankfein this year.

Lolde Blankfein is a New Yorker, born in Brooklyn, New York.

He was born into poverty and applied for jobs at Goldman Sachs in his early years.

The results were rejected by Goldman Sachs.

After that, Lauder Blankfein went to work for another commodity trading company called J.Aron. After two years, J.Aron was acquired by Goldman Sachs.

Lauld Blankfein followed the entire J.Aron company and became part of Goldman Sachs because of a mistake

With J.Aron's increasingly important position in Goldman Sachs Group.

In 1997, Goldman Sachs merged J.Aron with its fixed income business to form a fixed income commodities division.

Blankfein was appointed director of that business.

Blankefein's working ability is very good. The division's revenue increased from $2.086 billion in 1998 to $3.254 billion this year.

Because of its great working ability.

Leave it to Lauder Blankfein to be highly regarded by senior executives, including CEO Paulson.

Paulsen even regularly checked in on work with Lloyd Blankfein.

It is said that Paulson had the idea of ​​Lloyd Blankfein as his future successor. That's Lold Blankfein, only forty-six years old this year.

is one of the company's top executives who has the opportunity to apply for the position of CEO of Goldman Sachs.

"Maybe he wants revenge?" » Lold Blankfein said gently.

"We, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers. It's no secret if you want to see what David Mellon did."

Paulson of course understood what Lauald Blankfein meant. Like Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs was involved in a project that the two giants of the PNC Financial Services group considered a crapshoot.

This involved hacking Smith Capital's foreign exchange investments, causing Smith Capital to lose more than $10 million.

Among them, Goldman Sachs also earned $4 million from this type of sniping.

Paulson also thought about this possibility.

I just didn't expect the other side to take advantage of the Goldman Sachs stock buyback to counterattack. This makes Paulson wonder what Abel will do next.

Would you like to buy Goldman Sachs?

Don't joke.

Even though Goldman Sachs is currently worth less than $60 billion.

But for a company like Goldman Sachs, buying a small portion of a stock is very simple. It can be purchased on the secondary market.

But once the company or shareholder warning threshold is reached, the difficulty of acquisition will increase exponentially.

If this were a forced acquisition, it would face counterattacks from Goldman Sachs management, including but not limited to "poison pills," "golden parachutes," and other means.

As long as the company and Goldman Sachs's board of directors are unwilling, it will be difficult for outsiders to control the company.

It's certainly difficult to get out of Goldman Sachs stock. After all, among the big four investment banks, Goldman Sachs is equally greedy.

But it never kills. In terms of corporate security, it is almost the same as Morgan Stanley.

Things Paulson couldn't understand.

Lauld Blankfein certainly couldn't understand. But soon, another message was sent to them.

"He also invested in Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley? And Raymond Brothers?"

The four major investment banks on Wall Street are all publicly traded companies.

It's not difficult to buy their shares.

"Lehman Brothers bought it too?"

"And value?"

"Understand."

In the fixed-income commodities division, Paulson hung up the phone. Over the phone, Goldman Sachs's market surveillance department talked to him about the CEO.

Currently owned by Smith Capital, each major investment bank owns about 1.1 to 1.5% of the shares.

Because I have been very careful in my buying and selling and the US stock market is not doing very well these days.

This makes the four major investment banks, which are very enthusiastic in this matter, expect Smith Capital to buy back the majority of their shares.

They just found out. This is mainly because they do not expect Smith Capital to acquire their shares.

Buying back shares that are not intended to acquire companies would be of no use to their big four investment banks.

Instead, it supported their stock price and seemed to help them.

This makes the four major investment banks believe that Abel will act.

It's very surprising. It was like being surprised by Abel's sudden attack on the US stock market a few days ago.

Lauld Blankfein made a guess: "Maybe the other side is just a financial investment?"

After much consideration, Paulson also felt that this was as good as possible.

If not, does Abel really want to buy Goldman Sachs or the other four major investment banks?

How arrogant!

After thinking about it, Paulson quietly said:

"Maybe such a possibility exists. But after all, he is the wolf of Wall Street. And now some call him the Investing God of Wall Street."

"We cannot underestimate his actions."

Lauld Blankfanti suggested: "Then let the market inspection department supervise!"

This is the meaning of the title.

Whoever it was, suddenly bought a large number of shares of four major investment banks.

He even affirmed verbally that it was only a financial investment.

are identical and will be closely monitored by the four major investment banks.

Shareholders do not want to lose control of the company. The company's senior management does not want to suddenly change their boss, which will affect their leadership position.

But what surprised Paulson happened on the afternoon of the 24th.

Because of the CEO's orders.

Goldman Sachs's market surveillance department naturally began monitoring Smith Capital.

This type of close monitoring allowed Goldman Sachs to spot among the 131 stocks that Smith Capital invested in a few days ago. Among them, there were 4 stocks that skyrocketed to different degrees after the US stock market opened this afternoon.

One of them, "Andrew Building Materials (ticker ticker adlgs), jumped about 36% in two hours.

The head of Goldman Sachs's market surveillance department quickly informed Paulson of the incident.

Whoever they call their CEO gives them orders. . Tell everything about Smith Capital, no matter how big it is, you must inform them as soon as possible.

When Paulson got the call.

He was having afternoon tea at a hotel with a guest from Texas.

Worried that there was an emergency, Paulson had to temporarily answer the call.

Over the phone, Paulson learned that the prices of four stocks purchased by Smith Capital had skyrocketed. This afternoon, all four stocks increased in price.

Leave it to Smith Capital to make a profit of nearly $150 million.

Paulson couldn't help but frown.

The CEO came on the phone and asked if Smith Capital had engaged in stock price manipulation and other conduct.

Goldman Sachs' market watchdog told Paulson that Smith Capital might not have done so. These four stocks belong to different industries.

Most of the reasons why their stock prices increase come from outside the market.

For example: "Andrews construction materials (code adlgs.

The reason why this company's stock skyrocketed.

Because of its core products and technologies, Rabbit, a transoceanic public infrastructure company, has taken a liking to it. Rabbit Company wants to acquire technology related to construction materials from Andrew.

This is a deal involving hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds of millions more to follow. .

This news has been approved by Rabbit's relevant departments.

In addition, "Andrew Building Materials" also issued a statement confirming this incident. This immediately made the market optimistic about "Andrew Building Materials (stock code adlgs.

Let the company's stock begin to rise.

Paulsen at that time did not feel that Abel's tentacles could reach the rabbit.

The situation is similar with the remaining three stocks.

is the development speed of the title, not exaggerated like "Andrew Construction Materials". But the lowest price increased by 11.9%, an increase too high compared to other stocks on the market right now.

Hanging up the phone, Paulson touched his bald head.

"Maybe this guy is not only sensitive to the international foreign exchange and futures markets."

"Is he good at investing in stocks?"

While thinking, Paulson returned to his seat.

Smile and chat with your Texas guests and leisurely enjoy your afternoon tea.

While chatting, Paulson looked at the guest and then suddenly changed the topic to Wall Street. Nothing.

Paulson is the CEO of Goldman Sachs, himself a Wall Street bigwig.

When talking with Paulson, it would be strange if we didn't talk about Wall Street.

Many people outside of Wall Street always like to talk about Wall Street.

Paulson has long been accustomed to and adapted to this point. The key is this guest from Texas.

As soon as we talk about Wall Street, we talk about Abel Smith.

"Ha~ When it comes to Wall Street, Texas, we will definitely talk about Mr. Smith. Honestly, I'm very curious, is he really that good at investing?"

The guest's name is Richard Lee Armidage, the same name as a British actor.

But this Richard's status is much higher than this Richard the actor. Old Richard is one of the think tank members in this year's backwoods election.

is also a friend with whom Paulson has a good relationship.

Looking at Richard, he seems very interested in Abel Smith.

Paulson knocked on the door in his heart and silently said something wrong:

[I seem to have forgotten this guy is from Texas! ]

Most of the time, Abel is on Wall Street and doesn't act like a Texan.

And on Wall Street, Texans have never had a place to express themselves. Except when we want to use physical means, people will think Abel is a Texan.

So I'm a bit taboo and don't dare use it.

Generally.

Abel's way of talking and acting is not at all like a Southerner.

It's easy for people on Wall Street to overlook that this guy is actually from Texas. Faced with Richard's question, Paulson felt a bit helpless.

He could only force a smile:

"Mr. Abel Smith? Of course it goes without saying. Even on Wall Street, there aren't many people like him!"

Looking at Richard, it seemed like he had a good impression of the other person.

It has yet to be confirmed whether Paulson is actually in the lead or not. I decided to ruin everything before speaking.

Paulson still has good things to say about Abel.

After hearing these words.

Richard smiled, then said in a long voice:

"Actually, I know Mr. Smith's father, Alexander Smith. We used to have dinner together."

"Oh, that's right. A few days ago, George visited Mr. Smith's farm as a guest!

"At that time, Mr. Smith's mother, Emily, made Texas-style steak, I still remember the taste!

Look at Richard's smiling face.

Paulsen at that time did not understand that inviting the other person to his house for afternoon tea was actually only a secondary goal.

These latter words are probably the real goal.

George went to Smith's? Who else could Richard talk about about George!

Paulson was determined at that point. That's wicked, little Dixie.

Perhaps he took refuge with the big man behind Richard in front of him.

Thinking of this, Paulson had a headache.

Initially, this guy used to work like crazy on Wall Street.

It's too late now, if there's any support from these people in Texas. So Wall Street may never have peace.

You should know that these people have never had a good impression of Wall Street.

They still feel as though they are working hard to make money on Wall Street.

But Wall Street also felt it had gone wrong.

If Wall Street doesn't proactively cause trouble everywhere, where will it have the opportunity to work hard? Without the opportunity to work hard, how can they earn money?

People cooperate with each other and make money together around the world. Isn't that a good thing?

Paulsen thought so in his heart but still kept a smile on his lips and said:

"Haha ~ Mr. Smith and I have a very good relationship. We had a nice chat last time at the reception."

"Ha~ That's the best."

Richard smiled and said: "So we are all friends." Next time we will invite Mr. Smith to go out together. Unfortunately, New York cannot hunt indiscriminately.

"Of course it's no problem. But in New York there are many places you can hunt. It's just that there's no game in the city."

Paulson smiled.

But inside I kept screaming Madfak. Things suddenly became awkward.

(end of this chapter)