Chapter 308

Chapter 308 The big event countdown begins

Another sunny morning.

Compared to London, where it is often cloudy and rainy, the weather in Southern Europe is too normal.

Perhaps this is exactly why the Greek civilization and the Roman Empire that formed in Europe were born here.

Excelsior Hotel in Venice.

Opening his sleepy eyes, Abel yawned. He scratched his hair and glanced at Penelope Cruz, who was clinging to his arm.

He smiled happily, kissed her forehead, then carefully pulled out her left arm, which she was hugging on the pillow.

The 27-year-old Spanish national treasure goddess is at her peak in terms of body and appearance.

Compared to today, the Ansa people occupy a dominant position in Europe and America.

Castilian varieties from the Iberian Peninsula age more slowly. Penelope Cruz is a typical beauty from the Iberian peninsula and has a different style than the blonde beauty Anza.

No matter what, he loves it all, he wants it all.

Getting off Simmons, Abel looked at the electronic clock next to him.

This is a "technology product" that has been very popular in Europe and America in recent years.

Using simple LED lights, the electronic wall clock can display specific time, temperature, and humidity. In a few years it will be replaced by more advanced things.

But in 2001, it was still a new high-tech product.

The price is relatively expensive, only high-class public places and upper middle class families can buy this type of item.

On the electronic clock, Abel saw that today was September 8, at seven o'clock in the morning.

However, due to the time zone difference, Venice is six or seven hours ahead of New York. That means it was only the early morning of September 8 in New York.

Three days left.

Thinking, he walked into the bathroom.

When he entered the living room with a towel, Doni and another bodyguard.

kept her clothes as usual and helped her put them on. After a brief breakfast at the Excelsior Hotel, he hurried back to the villa on Lido island that he had just bought.

When they got home, Annie and Jessica still hadn't woken up.

Over the past two days, Aimo Alamuddin has suffered heavily from his firepower.

Yesterday she rested very well but today she woke up very early.

When Abel returned, she was playing tennis with Lulana, Anne's chef's daughter, on the villa's tennis court. The summer morning sunshine in Southern Europe is still mild. Abel observed the movements of the beautiful girls for a while.

Just then, David Jones arrived with cell phone number 2.

"BOSS, that's Norway's phone number."

Abel nodded and continued.

Slim Stard's voice came from the cell phone microphone. The Norwegian sounded tired, as if he hadn't slept all night.

"Mr. Smith. We have accepted your request. 5% shares of Statoil and 5% shares of Norsk Hydro. But this must be based on current market value, do you understand what I mean?"

"Oh, sure, I understand." Abel smiled. "THEREFORE." Slim Stard's sleepy voice rang out.

"I understand, I understand. Wait for the good news!" Abel smiled again.

Slim Stard answered and hung up first.

Abel was holding work phone number 2, looking at David: "What happened to the dollar and the Norwegian krone last night?"

David immediately said softly: "Last night, the international hot money flow led by Soros injected 15 billion Norwegian Crowns into the market again. The exchange rate between the Norwegian krone and the US dollar fell below 7.7 for the first time and is currently hovering around 7.7950. "It could go back to 7.8 at any time."

Abel listened and nodded.

Norway is a typical export-oriented country, mainly exporting energy, seafood and industrial products.

However, in this type of country, currency depreciation can often lead to increased exports.

It is beneficial for our country's economy.

However, there is a principle according to which the depreciation of this currency must be controlled. Uncontrolled currency depreciation not only leads to an increase in exports.

Indeed, the more the currency depreciates, the more important exports become, and at the same time, the more domestic wealth will be plundered.

This is mainly because the rest of the Norwegian economy is so small, with the exception of energy.

There is some heavy industry, but light industry mainly needs imports due to climate and demographic issues.

Even most food has to be imported from outside. Except for energy, this type of economy is actually very similar to Han Guo and Neon.

It's just that the Norwegians were abolished by high society, East Asia also did not exist.

Currency devaluation in East Asia is usually not a bad thing, but if the currency depreciates too much in Norway, the first to suffer are Norwegians who have a high standard of living.

In terms of its ability to pay for currency depreciation, Norway, a country with high national welfare, is clearly not as good as East Asia, where king rolls are everywhere.

Abel clicked on the contacts on the second cell phone, found Soros's number there and called. The phone was connected quickly, but Soros's secretary was answering the phone.

The secretary said that Soros was still sleeping. Abel revealed his identity, and the secretary immediately went to Soros's house.

A few minutes later, Abel heard Soros' tired voice coming from the microphone.

The old man probably stayed up late last night and he is no longer young.

Being called so early will naturally be a bit tiring. Seventy years old and still working very hard.

Retire when it's time to retire!

"George." After hearing Soros' voice, Abel bluntly said: "The Norwegians have already benefited me. 5% shares of Norwegian Hydro and corresponding shares of Statoil.

Soros on the other side of the phone heard these words from Abel.

Youren, who was still a bit sleepy, suddenly cheered up.

Soros laughed angrily: "We have worked hard for more than two months, so far we have only earned billions of dollars, that money is still divided among more than a hundred people."

"Abel, you are very good. You haven't done anything yet and you've already earned such a big profit!

Hearing Soros's angry words, Abel did not panic: "No way, who told me to be more like a good person." Who told me to direct the course of the war now?

He said bluntly: "George. If I want to get these shares, I will enter the market. I will start helping the Norwegians. Do you have any ideas?"

"I see what you mean. But Abel, do you know what you mean by that? »

Soros' voice rang out through the phone's microphone: "That means you will become the enemy of most investors in the world!"

"Don't act so strong." Abel was not afraid of her threats.

"If you were really that powerful, Norway would have surrendered to you a long time ago. If you were really that powerful, you wouldn't have returned to Hong Kong Island empty-handed a few years ago! George, you often point out maybe." fight financial wind pirates.

Soros was a little speechless at what Abel said.

It was not because he lacked eloquence and quick wit.

But Abel chose the timing very well. Abe currently holds 400,000 lots of USD/NOK currency futures.

Having chosen to close the position, liquidation of such magnitude will certainly remove the bullish momentum from USD/NOK.

It is possible that within a short period of time, the two-month international fundraising effort will be wiped out.

On the other hand, he holds a large amount of spot NOK if he sells it.

The current tenable situation in Norway is likely to collapse immediately. The $80 billion he currently holds is not the largest investment in this financial war.

But even when the two sides were deadlocked, the old forces had disappeared and the new forces had not yet been born.

No matter which side he stood up to help at this time, the other side would feel very uncomfortable, and would even lose the war because of this.

Norway could not bear to lose anymore, so the Norwegians showed favor to Abel first.

Even the shares of the two largest companies are ready to be delisted. The Soros camp now looks stronger.

But his side's ingredients are too mixed, and there are all kinds of ingredients with international hot money.

They did not completely obey Soros's orders, mostly just fishing with Soros in difficult waters.

If they could all follow Soros' orders and do it like a finger.

Don't say Norway. With the exception of the United States and financially closed countries, it is believed that no country can withstand their attacks financially.

The actual situation is that Soros can directly direct the action, and the amount of money willing to listen to him completely is actually less than Abel!

Because of this, Soros could not give any advantage to Abel.

Because they are not a whole, in many cases they are opponents or enemies of each other.

Why did Soros ask others to help Abel? Why should others help Soros for Abel's sake? So the bottom line is that Soros only found Abel once and there was no movement after that.

The reason is that the international tourism capital itself is a chaotic international capital.

They are simply a group of financial hackers who temporarily assemble when it seems profitable.

To win the battle against the wind, everyone can rush.

When someone has to sacrifice, no one will do it. In this case, Soros cannot bring many benefits and he is not willing to give any benefits.

Faced with Abel Chiguoguo's blackmail, Soros could only threaten and try to prevent Abel from leaving.

"So you're really going to finish?" Soros's voice continued to echo.

"Didn't I warn you? George, for the sake of our good relationship, I thought I should warn you first, to avoid our friendship fading."

Soros wants to say what kind of friendship do we have? There is no friendship between financial giants.

If possible, every financial tycoon would like to bite a large piece of flesh and blood from the other person's body!

In a field like finance, where it is mostly a zero-sum game, there can be no real allies!

Some are just temporary allies united for good.

"In this case, we can only talk about the exchange rate between the US dollar and the Norwegian krone." Soros couldn't take advantage of it, or rather, didn't want to bring it up himself, and said in a low voice.

"Is this your return? Well done, George. Then, when I buy Norwegian stocks, I can buy them with complete confidence."

"Goodbye!"

Abel hung up the phone first.

In a hotel in the City of London, Soros smashed his cell phone into pieces.

His secretary quietly moved forward to clean up without saying a word.

A while later, the secretary found the special SIM card in the mobile phone, and then inserted the SIM card into the new mobile phone.

He silently returned the new phone to an angry Soros. Soros picked up the phone, called directly, then went into the bathroom to take a shower.

When he walked out, the secretary realized he was still talking on the phone.

".Yeah. This little Dixie obviously knows something. I just fell in love and I'm so angry.

"I should pretend to accept his conditions and postpone the discussion for a few days. At that time, if he wants to do it again, it will be difficult to justify it. »

"But he probably can't delay. If he knew something, he wouldn't make a bad judgment because of my words."

"That's right. But who would have thought that Norway would have such good resistance? I thought the battle would take at most a month and a half to end!"

" What should we do? Let's retreat. It's not that we're afraid of him. That's because our time has lasted too long and the best times have passed. Stop and wait to see the situation.

While continuously calling, Soros left the hotel.

Abel's side was more direct, he called.

London, UK and New York, USA, the two headquarters of Smith Capital, immediately began large-scale liquidation of their USD/NOK long positions. That afternoon, the Norwegian krone, which had surpassed the 7.8 mark, quickly fell back to the 7.7 mark.

After discovering the large-scale liquidation of Smith Capital.

Many people realized that Smith Capital was preparing to leave.

He left the field at that point, clearly playing against the international hot money led by Soros.

Initially, everyone thought the Norwegian krone would have the next good performance. The new financial god is undefeated since his debut, it was a good performance against Soros, the sword of Wall Street and international hot money.

However, at night, a scene that surprised everyone appeared.

In other words, a day passed without Soros doing anything.

This Wall Street oil and finance tycoon sat back and watched the Norwegian krone exchange rate, which they eventually beat, plummet to 7.7.

Many people believe that Soros has not made any moves, maybe he and Abel have reached an agreement. In this way, some of the international hot money following Soros has withdrawn.

Soros himself does not appear and this hot money will flow out on its own.

The official confrontation appeared on the second day and the Norwegian krone exchange rate was once again brought to 7.7950.

At the end of the day, NOK remained at 7.7550 and continued to fluctuate.

Yesterday and today, two days in a row, Soros was extremely calm. During these two days, Abel also signed agreements with the Norwegian Petroleum Fund and Norges Bank Investment Management LLC.

The US company Pacific Energy Company acquired 10% and 5% of Statoil's shares for $1 billion and $500 million, respectively.

These shares are preferred shares.

So-called preferred shares are compared with common shares in the voting process within the company.

Voting rights represent only one-tenth of the common shares, or none at all. Simply put, preferred stock is usually stock with no voting rights.

Because of the loss of important voting rights, there will of course be compensation in other ways.

Preference shares without voting rights will enjoy priority rights to receive dividends when paying dividends.

That is, when a company pays dividends, preferred stocks can bring in money the fastest.

Most of Wall Street's holdings in giant Han Guo are preferred stock. This is also the reason why Lee Jae-seo's family's shares, although small, can still hold leadership of Samsung Group.

Due to its small proportion, it almost has the most voting rights.

Basically, the money they earn does not go into their pockets, but most of it goes into the mouths of Wall Street giants.

Many times Korean corporations appear to be rich but are actually very poor.

Therefore, after Li Zaixi's death, when his children were forced to pay inheritance tax, they had to sell a large number of stocks in exchange for money and use that money to pay inheritance tax. It's not that they don't like these actions, it's that they really don't have money, without money means cash.

Most of the company's profits go to foreigners.

In fact, most Korean groups are like that.

The oligarchs only gained power and influence in the southern peninsula.

Most real profits are completely returned to foreigners. This is also the reason why chaebols that seem to be very profitable often seem stingy.

It's not that they want to be stingy, it's that they really don't have much money!

This is because more than 90% of the money that giant companies like Han Guo earn and use to pay dividends goes to Wall Street.

Two 5% shares offered by Norway also belong to this type of shares.

The majority of the shares of these two companies, 51%, are in the hands of the Norwegian government.

The rest is in the hands of local Norwegian capitalists. Abel also knew that merging these two Norwegian companies was impossible.

He wants this 5% stake, mainly to raise his voice in Europe.

As Europe's largest oil producer after Maozi, Norway has a certain say in Europe even if it does not join the EU.

In addition, selling oil is the easiest industry to make money.

This 5% stake will depend on future oil price increases. Abel knew he could pay back the most in two or three years.

Then you can easily collect dividends every year.

This amount is not lacking, but this amount can be put into the office's family fund.

This type of long-term stable income is the industry best suited for family offices.

So even though it's preferred stock, it's a good thing for him. He agreed and the deal was done.

At this time, the time is September 10.

Soros remained silent—

It's not exactly silence, if anyone can see through Soros' disguise.

We see that Soros has quietly left since the 8th.

By the tenth day, more than half of Soros and his real allies' funds had been withdrawn. Markets continue to struggle against Norway and Abel.

All that remains is the international speculative capital that has made so much money behind Soros in recent years.

So on the 10th, the spineless international hot money gradually began to retreat.

The 7.7 line held for two days also began to be broken.

Wait until the evening of September 10, European time. Smith Capital, which has been frantically closing its positions, has closed all the USD/NOK position contracts in its hands.

And replace the Norwegian government and the Norwegian Petroleum Fund, and frantically buy NOK right on the market.

I waited until noon on September 11 European time.

Smith Capital held NOK 600 billion in cash, making it one of the largest NOK holdings in the market.

Currently, the exchange rate between the Norwegian krone and the US dollar has also fallen back to 7.6950. Milan, Italy.

As the famous fashion capital of the world, the largest number of shows here each year are clothing shows of all kinds.

In early September this year, Milan welcomed the angels of Elizabeth Back Garden Company based in New York.

After nearly six months of preparation, Isa finally had the courage to go to Europe.

First stop is Milano. For a week straight, Isha and her collaborators walked the runways of Milan for a week straight.

The 25 models signed by Elizabeth worked hard for just one week.

This time Isha has a big goal.

The company will hold fashion shows in Europe for two consecutive months, including Milan, Paris, London and Berlin.

Luckily, the week-long parade is over. After that, the models can rest for a week or two and then return to Paris to compete again.

Abel's Elizabethan angels can finally rest in peace.

Noon, European time.

There is a very isolated area on the outskirts of Milan.

It is built on the mountain, has a beautiful and large Italian-style wooden villa. The higher you go, the better the views.

This is a spa villa designed by famous Italian architect Renzo Piano.

Speaking of hot springs, because they are located in a seismic zone, earthquakes often occur in Italy.

Of course, there are many negative side effects, but it also brings some small benefits in many parts of Italy.

For example, neon light cabinets, in Italy there are many hot springs. In Europe, Italy is a famous spa town.

There are many famous hot springs in Milan, such as Storm Hot Springs, QC Hot Springs, and Ski Resort Hot Springs.

The wooden building designed by master Renzo Piano has its own temperature zone inside.

It is half inside and half outside, the outer part is built outdoors, on an elevated location.

During the snowfall season, you can enjoy the snow while bathing in warm water, admiring the city of Milan below. The interior is directly connected to several bedrooms, including the master bedroom, which has direct access.

Master Renzo Piano with neon style wooden sliding doors divides the bedroom into the living room.

There are enough windows and enough space in the main room to appreciate the changes of light and shadow.

At this time, on the outdoor terrace, hot springs stacked on top of each other with smooth stones were constantly evaporating, fighting against the coolness of the mountains and forests. With wind, the nearby forest can almost transform the entire suburb of Milan. Colors available. da da da da

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After an intense workout not long ago, Gisele Bundchen went back inside for a long rest.

Now that she had rested and had something to eat, Gisele Bundchen, wearing a three-point bikini, jumped into the hot tub and swam out to the outdoor area of ​​the hot tub.

It was not surprising that she saw her colleagues outside the outdoor hot tub and in the water of the hot tub.

And his boss.

In the water of the thermal pool, Gisele Bundchen felt seductive inside. Another against 25.

This boss is not afraid of breaking his waist!

(end of this chapter)