Chapter 238

Chapter 238 The target this time is Europe

Little Laura was a bit surprised when Abel found a designer for "Lauren's Flower".

is a little-known designer named Zaha Hadid.

This designer Zaha Hadid has her own studio and is about 50 years old this year.

On an 81-acre site that has not been demolished.

Little Laura watched Abel talk to each other. "My God, Mr. Smith, according to your plan. The steel bars and high-energy cement that will have to be used will be huge."

"It is possible to build a skyscraper but it does not necessarily require that much steel and cement."

The speaker was architect Zaha Hadid.

Zaha Hadid in 2001 now.

His reputation is not that great yet. Still not dubbed the "architectural design demon". At that time, Zaha Hadid was just a famous but controversial designer in the field of architectural design.

Before 2001, it had only 4 models.

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

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

A parking lot in Strasbourg, France. and a ski resort in Innsbruck, Austria.

These places and buildings cannot be known just by looking at their names.

They're just in the industry, known for their quirky designs and superpowered construction difficulty.

But just the average person who has seen these buildings will see what they look like.

Cultured people can use poetry and even compose prose to praise them. People with little education or straightforward personalities like Anne Hathaway.

Take a look at these buildings designed by Zaha Hadid.

Chinese speakers probably just say "Fuck it."

English speakers probably say "fxxk".

A master at deconstructing modern architecture, the works she creates are sleek and graceful. In terms of construction difficulty and construction cost, without exception, relevant civil engineering dogs would call Fake.

Little Laura did not understand this.

She's a smart girl, she knows it even without knowing Zaha Hadid.

Abel could reunite with Zaha Hadid so there must be some reason.

Little Laura did not gossip like the other women who curiously asked questions around her. She just smiled and listened to the conversation between Abel and Zaha Hadid.

Even if little Laura had dissatisfaction or doubt in her heart, she would only do it at the right time.

Or if it's just the two of you, propose to Abel appropriately.

Little Laura heard Abel say to Zaha Hadid:

"I know what you said. Ms. Hadid, what I want is a house that is unique in the world. I also knew that the cost of distributing it would be very high. I have already prepared for this. Just let me know if you can design it.

"Of course."

Zaha Hadid hardly thought about it.

". According to your requirements, there is a solution in civil engineering and construction.

Zaha Hadid drew a small hill in the middle of an 81-acre estate on simple grass paper. Zhaha walked around the hill once and said: "The top area of ​​this small hill is about 250 square meters.

"The circle I surround has an area of ​​about 4,000 square meters."

"At Mr. Smith's discretion. Then we can water all the reinforced concrete in this circle and build it flush with the hill."

"This way, you get an artificial platform of more than 4,000 square meters."

Abel looked at Zaha Hadid's sketch and discovered that the circle essentially encircled the entire hill from its base.

That is, if you really want to overlap, you have to overlap from the foot of the hill to the top of the mountain.

Along with reinforced concrete, there are countless types of construction materials.

The cost here does not require much architectural knowledge, the average person will think that it is very exaggerated when thinking about it. But Abel has other considerations. He smiled and said: "Give me a design drawing and technical cost calculation."

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

"Of course." Abel smiled and said: "There won't be a penny."

Zaha Hadid smiled: "Then I and my studio will be happy to help you."

Zaha Hadid was fired.

As soon as she left, little Laura gently said:

"This Zaha Hadid, I've never heard of her."

Abel knew what little Laura wanted to say and he was prepared for it.

"Edward," Abel called. Edward arrived immediately, holding a wallet.

Abel took the wallet from Edward and gave it to baby Laura.

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

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

But when she and Abel boarded the boat and returned to Manhattan midway.

Little Laura understood what Abel meant. Because of these Zaha Hadid creations, they are so beautiful, so artistic and so designed.

Everything that fell into little Laura's eyes surprised her.

When the two went ashore, little Laura also accepted in her heart that Zaha Hadid was the one who created her and Abel's future love nest.

I spent the whole day with baby Laura.

The next day is Monday. day.

Little Laura goes to class.

Anne Hathaway filmed a night scene the other day. When Abel and baby Lauren went out yesterday, Anne made up for the day at home.

Baby Laura will go to school today. Annie also went to Queens to film a movie.

Abel must have been free because he thought he hadn't cut leeks in almost a month.

Leeks in the international market have been recovering for a month.

Fat enough to harvest.

He arrived at the Smith Building where Smith Capital is located at noon. When he arrived at the company, he spoke directly with CEO David Mellon.

"Call a hundred traders with the best energy." Abel said:

"Tell them that the king of the Smith Kingdom will once again lead his knights into battle."

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

David went out to clean up his work and Abel waited in the office for about ten minutes.

David excitedly walked in to inform her that everything was ready.

This speed was so fast that it is estimated that Smith Capital employees gathered together as soon as they heard this summons. Abel went out immediately.

"Knights! Your king is about to lead you into battle in the land of money and lead you into the capital world!"

David Mellon stood on a high podium and began his usual speech again.

"CURRENTLY!"

"Your king, hurry – Hurry! »

David Mellon was greeted with enthusiastic cheers.

Amid the cheers.

Abel smiled and raised his finger, and the hundred selected merchants immediately stopped clapping. Abel took the microphone given by David, in the general atmosphere of a small university.

Abel couldn't help but summarize.

He laughed and said:

"Do you want a bonus?"

"You want a better income? »

"Do you want more money?"

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

"Now, now, now!"

"At work!"

After Abel waved.

These elites are mostly Ivy League graduates, just like the One Piece pirates who set sail to take over One Piece, quickly returned to their positions and sat down.

They looked up, like elementary school children looking up at their teacher, looking up at Abel, their King Smith. Abel turned his back to them, he looked at the financial information on the screen and chose the lucky number.

"Just choose..."

"USD/NOK!"

Abel randomly chooses a "lucky guy".

Norway is a Nordic country.

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

His overall appearance isn't bad. On the information wall of the screen, Abel also saw that the country's currency has fluctuated greatly in recent days.

That prompted him to keep an eye on this lucky guy.

Talent tells him what to do next.

Abel smiled and said: "Let's do more, let's help the lovely Americans and Norwegians, so that the American dollar can exchange for more Norwegian crowns." This will make it easier for Americans to come to Norway and Norwegians can also earn money. US Dollar, get the best of both worlds. »

Whether short or long.

As long as you can make money, Smith Capital traders listened to Abel's instructions with the utmost attention.

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

"First buy 100,000 lots, hold a long position, pay attention to consumption compensation!" Abel said.

After giving the transaction order. Smith Capital's "knights" got to work.

The stability of this currency pair is clearly not as great as the stability of USD/JPY or USD/GBP.

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

With the rapid influx of money from Abel, the USD/NOK exchange rate increased rapidly.

Just two hours. Its price has reached the level of 7.6111.

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

There is no doubt that this is a bullish dollar and it has gone too far.

But for NOK it has depreciated.

On the face of it, Smith Capital has made a floating profit of 61p at this point. If you just look at the floating profit score, you can actually say the same thing.

However, this increase in points actually represents a large amount of capital invested by Smith Capital, as they are executing buy orders in US dollars, leading to this increase.

If Smith Capital chooses to close all positions and eliminate them at that time.

It is impossible to keep this exchange rate unchanged after wasting huge amounts of money.

The floating profit point will certainly decrease accordingly. Once all of Smith Capital's long positions are closed and sold, it is estimated that the exchange rate will drop to an even lower level than when it was purchased.

Both are compensated.

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

Investment banks would normally be very cautious about doing this type of transaction beyond this number.

Unless there really is a big market, like previous black swan markets like USD/JPY. Without a large market there is no international black swan event.

USD/NOK is a currency with a small pound, no one dares to spend that amount of money at the same time.

If this is the normal operation of these large investment banks.

This is all prudent. If you want to short or buy a country's currency, you must slowly hold a small number of positions continuously, then sell and exit the market at the right time. Only Abel is someone who relies on talent to function. How dare you act so recklessly.

Having talent means having will.

Smith Capital's next funds continue to enter and build positions one after another.

Abel asked the traders and David to watch the market. He was planning to go back to the office for a cup of coffee.

David was attentively observing the market and suddenly shouted: "Boss, someone is entering the market."

One hour ago.

Neon, Tokyo.

Neon Bank, in the central bank building.

Akihiko Kuroda sips coffee, one hand in his pocket, walking among hundreds of elite traders at work. Akihiko Kuroda belongs to the special economic action group at Neon Central Bank.

The so-called Special Economic Action Task Force is essentially the investment organization of Neon Central Bank.

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

Simply put, the so-called Special Economic Action Group is the group responsible for generating profits for Neon Central Bank in the international market.

At the same time, it is also responsible for 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 one of the most notable and elite economic groups.

The central banks of most countries also have such institutions.

They also play a similar role to Akihiko Kuroda's group, responsible for the international interests of their national and central banks.

Foreign exchange, futures, insurance and securities transactions of the world's central banks are all carried out by such institutions.

Including the rabbit side, there are similar personnel. These people can also be called the national team.

Sometimes even these American corporations take on such a role.

That is, it often requires the Federal Reserve to arrange and even provide capital.

American financial capitalists will eventually become hypocrites.

It's the central bank of the United States, it's a private bank. As one of the leaders of the Neon Central Bank national team members, Akihiko Kuroda is essentially of average ability.

Many senior managers, or even the elite of Neon Bank, know this.

Akihiko Kuroda can take on the role of team leader because he has a good older brother.

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

Everyone knew he was able to achieve this position because he had a good older brother from a prestigious family. This is normal in Neon. Family background, relationships and nepotism are much more important than Neon's abilities.

But Akihiko Kuroda doesn't think so. He feels like he can become the team leader because of his abilities.

Besides his brother, his subordinates and friends always praise him this way. Other than being on the job for over a year, everything has gone well.

Akihiko Kuroda always thought he was a rare financial genius in a million.

When Abel places a Smith Capital USD/NOK entry.

Akihiko Kuroda was happily drinking coffee when suddenly one of his subordinates shouted loudly:

"Master Kuroda, come and take a look. Among the breeding funds we are interested in, one of them has been captured by us."

Akihiko Kuroda was stunned for a moment then quickly approached. "Nani?! Where is he? Do you know what funds the rice corporation has?"

"Look. We've been tracking it. This fund just entered USD/NOK in a big way. This pair is up over 60 points in just two hours! This plate is now over $5 billion more than it started. Five billion US dollars. More than 10 billion USD! »

Akihiko Kuroda frowned.

This plate has increased from more than 5 billion US dollars to more than 10 billion US dollars.

This represents another and potentially billions of dollars invested in a short period of time.

Very confident?

Is this a short-term or long-term trade? If it's a short-term transaction, it's too risky.

Such a large amount of money in a currency pair with a small plate, if it's long-term it's okay, if it's short-term it's really a big risk.

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

» his men asked loudly. Although he is an idiot, Akihiko Kuroda is also a graduate of Dongda University's Department of Finance.

It is difficult to know whether a student is an excellent student or not.

But Akihiko Kuroda does not lack knowledge in the field of finance.

Otherwise, he can't be the team leader just based on his family situation.

Akihiko Kuroda knows that anything can happen in the foreign exchange market. Sometimes the market is already very good. When you short sell, you just see the currency plummet and you can harvest and exit the market.

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

This is very common in the foreign exchange market and Akihiko Kuroda himself has also experienced it.

Trade on the foreign exchange market. No matter how careful you are, you can't be too careful.

"One more note. I'll look into it."

» Akihiko Kuroda said calmly.

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

The query results in the economy and exchange rate of Norway. Compared to Europe and the Euro, it has been stronger recently.

It should be noted that after the new century, Nasdaq was involved in the bursting of the Internet bubble.

The US stock market is in mourning. The US stock market is also a barometer of the global economy.

The barometer is not good and of course the global economy will also be affected. This is why the global economy as a whole has recently experienced a slight slowdown.

Europe is not immune either.

But Norway took the opposite path during this period and its economy overall fared much better than its neighbors.

During this period, the Norwegian economy went against the general world trend and even grew.

As Norway's sovereign currency, the Norwegian krone is naturally increasing in value. A week ago, USD/NOK was 7.6190.

Current levels around 7.6100 are a result of its continued strength.

Before being deleted, it was even 7.6049.

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

Because he sees that this time the Norwegian krone is highly likely to continue to strengthen

Its energy comes mainly from Norway due to the discovery of two new oil fields and three new gas fields. These five oil and gas fields are still of very high quality.

So much so that it determines the overall GDP of the whole country.

This is certainly a great guarantee for the Norwegian crown.

Akihiko Kuroda decided to give it a try.

"Mobilizing capital. Join the market. Selling USD/NOK, this time we have to hit hard on these rice. Let these hateful white pigs know that it is not easy to anger us. »

» Akihiko Kuroda said calmly.

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

"1 billion USD. Accessible through escrow account."

"Alright."

Merchants operate quickly. A billion dollar escrow account is being exploited. If someone provides leverage, it can be billions or tens of billions of dollars.

It's just very high risk.

If you use your own money to enter, the loss that 10 billion US dollars your own money can bear is everything, no matter how big, it will not decrease.

But if it is margin trading, sometimes a few points can lead to liquidation. Once the position is liquidated, there will be no more seeds left.

Akihiko Kuroda's request for diversified leverage with a margin of 1 billion was quickly responded to after it was sent.

Thanks to his older brother, Akihiko Kuroda has a high position in Neon Bank.

The bank quickly approved the request.

Ten times leverage, after entering this plate, will be an empty order of 10 billion US dollars. This caused the exchange rate of the US dollar against the Norwegian krone, which had increased by dozens of points, to suddenly decrease again, even more than the increase.

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

Now he wants to see how these rice react.

If the other party reopens a position, he will continue to delete it.

If the other side does not increase its position, Norway's domestic economic situation will naturally cause USD/NOK to decline. Either way, the USD/NOK exchange rate is bearish.

Akihiko Kuroda and his team can take advantage of this.

(end of this chapter)