Chapter 635

In the afternoon, the raging wind and snow stopped for a while. On the helicopter, Abel pressed his head against the window glass and looked down from the air.

The landscape of New York City covered with ice and snow is majestic. The layers of ice accumulated on some water surfaces reflect the crystal blue sky in the sunlight. At first glance, it is breathtakingly beautiful.

However, the sudden onset of this ice storm brought huge disasters to the entire New York City and even several states near New York State. The subsequent effects of this snowstorm and freezing will not be eliminated for a while.

But, Americans have very tenacious vitality. Many people have experienced disasters of this magnitude at least several times in their lives, and many people have experienced them.

What's more, in a socially advanced country like the United States, it doesn't matter if you have no experience. At most, you will become a discarded product.

After all... only garbage dumps don't need to be cleaned up.

The roof apron of the annex building of Smith Tower, where Smith Capital is located, has been cleared. The whirlwind caused by the helicopter propeller blew up all the surrounding snow, causing a group of people waiting not far away to narrow their eyes slightly. His eyes were slightly turned sideways to resist the cold wind and the vast white sky filled with snow and sand.

Abel, who was wearing a dark blue cashmere coat, stepped out of the helicopter whose propeller had stopped rotating. He saw a group of tightly packed people with red faces approaching quickly. Abel couldn't help but smile slightly. A smile.

In addition to his own think tank, there are also executives from Smith Capital, as well as management from other Smith departments such as the Department of Media and the Department of Energy, and of course, Hearst, who wears fur windbreakers of different colors, but all with leather gloves. sisters.

It seemed that all of the people present were eager to see him!

Who told me that this time I went to Washington, it took me so long?

Soon an internal executive meeting of Smith's company began.

Several issues were mainly discussed at the meeting.

There is the cooperation and merger between Smith Media and Sony Columbia and Sony Music.

This is the result of Abel Neon and his team.

He supported Mitsui Fuyuko's father, Mitsui Suki, to ascend to power, not just for Fuyuko's beauty.

The biggest purpose of this trip is to draw his own forbidden area on RBQ in the United States.

The Mitsui Zaibatsu was the favorite of this newly minted middle school giant.

The reward for the Mitsui father and daughter is the in-depth cooperation between Sony Columbia Pictures and MGM Film Group. Then Sony Music Group and DreamWorks Music held cross-shareholdings in each other and integrated their businesses to achieve a merger reality without merger.

This is the main work of Smith Media in the past six months, and it has almost been completed.

Now he, the boss, needs to put the final word on the situation and directly make the decision to achieve the final integration work.

Smith Media will officially announce the news to the public after the meeting ends later.

However, there have been frequent actions between the two giants, and the outside world has been speculating and curious. In order to increase each other's stock prices, both parties have been secretly promoting each other from the side in the morning.

This has allowed Smith Media's stock price to rise by about 8% in the past six months, making it more stable than anyone else in the sideways trend.

Sony Columbia and Sony Music, the latter of which is not listed. In the past six months, the stock price of the former has risen by almost 25%.

This is before the news has been officially announced.

After the news is officially announced later, the stock prices of both parties will definitely see a rise.

At that time, Smith Media's market value may exceed US$350 billion. That would make Smith Media surpass many giants, such as General Motors and Ford Motor Company, and become the 15th largest company in the U.S. stock market.

It's also good for Sony, whose stock price has been depressed for so many years. Now with Smith Media, I am finally on the fast track.

This time it is estimated that there will be a surge, and at least the increase of more than 10% will not be possible.

After discussing what Smith Media does, next up is Pacific Energy Group.

Pacific Energy Group's acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum Company has been going on for more than a year.

There is resistance to this because there is a lot of resistance from other energy giants, such as the Seven Sisters of Oil. Therefore, even if both parties are interested in having a concubine, the work will be very difficult. The combined spending on lobbying by both parties is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

But fortunately, because both sides are indeed interested, even if there are many parties to prevent it, now it has finally reached the final step.

Recently, all obstacles have been cleared, and Pacific Energy will acquire Anadarko for US$24 billion in the form of 50% stock and 50% cash.

The transaction has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies and is expected to be completed in the first half of next year. Upon completion of the transaction, Pacific Energy will issue approximately 200 million new shares and pay approximately US$12 billion in cash. At the same time, Pacific Energy is expected to assume $8 billion in Anadarko's original debt. The entire M&A transaction size will reach nearly US$32 billion.

There is no doubt that the actions of both parties have already attracted widespread attention in the industry. Some analysts say that if the acquisition is completed, Pacific Energy's operating cash flow will surpass Exxon Mobil and become the world's second largest crude oil company.

The industry generally believes that this acquisition war has started a new round of arms race in the US oil industry - shale oil preparation!

Exxon Mobil CEO Fite bluntly told the media that Pacific Energy's acquisition of Anadarko was a bet on the Permian Basin.

Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Holub also said that the reason Pacific Energy values ​​Anadarko Petroleum is because of its Permian Basin shale oil and gas assets in Texas and New Mexico.

According to relevant information, the Permian Basin is about 400 kilometers wide and 480 kilometers long, with a surface area of ​​more than 120,000 square kilometers, including 43 counties in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The basin consists of three small basins: Midland, Delaware, and Marfa.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the shale oil content in this basin accounts for two-thirds of the shale oil content in the United States, and the basin's oil production is expected to double within five years. As Bloomberg notes: "In the future, a large portion of total global crude oil production will depend on the Permian Basin."

Because of this importance, Pacific Energy's acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum Company was delayed for so long.

In the end, Toanadarko Petroleum Company itself was a blessing for the Texas-based company. Despite numerous obstacles, Pacific Energy successfully completed its biggest move since its establishment and established its new position in the crude oil industry.

Finally came to Smith Capital.

Last month, Abel was in Washington. Therefore, the Smith Capital investment reception that was supposed to be held at the end of November was postponed to December by Smith Capital.

In this regard, both Wall Street peers and Smith Capital LPs deeply agree.

Without him, everyone knows that Abel Smith is the true creator and core of Smith Capital.

With him, Smith Capital is the number one investment bank on Wall Street. Therefore, if Abel did not attend Smith Capital's year-end investment reception, it would undoubtedly make this grand gathering of Wall Street and American wealthy people overshadowed.

The real owner has not returned, and David Mellon and the others cannot arouse anyone's interest at all.

Everyone is naturally willing to wait for Abe Smith's return.

At the meeting, the remaining main discussion was where to hold this year's year-end investment reception.

Three years ago, the first Smith Capital investment reception was held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. The second time was in the original Smith Building, the building in the LIC area of ​​Queens.

Last year's year-end investment reception was also held in a hotel.

This year, Abel wanted to do something different.

"My company seems to have never held a joint annual meeting until now? Everyone seems to have their own affairs at the annual meeting every year? And as your boss, I either don't participate, or if I do, I have to run up and down. "

In the conference room, Abel looked at everyone and expressed his thoughts directly.

"So I want to have a different show at the end of this year. I hope that all my industries, all the executives and key employee elites can gather together at the end of the year after a busy year."

"Everyone has a grand party to celebrate this year's harvest, and at the same time look forward to the coming year to inspire greater motivation for everyone's bright future!"

Everyone in the audience instantly understood what the boss meant by this idea.

Soon, many people's eyes couldn't help but light up.

The end-of-year reception for the entire Smith Department, or even the entire Texas United Consortium?

Just imagining it made everyone present so excited that they couldn't help but tremble.

You know, not long ago WSJ (Wall Street Journal) did a report about Abel Smith and how many people currently work for him.

In that report, WSJ claimed that across the United States, at least more than a million Americans now work for Abel Smith, or indirectly work for him.

Expanding to the entire world, the number of people working for Abel Smith may have exceeded 1.2 million.

And the number of people working for him is still growing. WSJ says that in a few years, there may be more than 2 million people.

Imagine a year-end joint reception for a huge business group with millions of people.

Even if only one-thousandth of the top elites and executives could attend, it would be an unparalleled business party.

"Plan it carefully. Then I will invite some friends. Everyone has worked hard for a year, let's get together and celebrate."

Seeing everyone's excited expressions, Abel laughed, "Let's do this. Each company will send two people to participate in the discussion to discuss what should be done at the end of the year. As for the candidates, you will decide internally. Make the plan. Leave it to me from now on, I hope to get it done before the end of this month."

After giving this last order, Abel directly announced the adjournment of the meeting.

After the meeting, Abel took another tour of Smith Tower.

Just like the lion king on the African grasslands, he occasionally makes routine patrols in his territory.

When he decided to leave and appeared on the helipad of the annex building of Smith Tower.

The sky was getting darker, and under the cloudy night, the wind and snow had obviously weakened. The weather forecast said that the negative air pressure that caused the snowstorm has moved to the southwest.

New York State and several nearby states can finally take a breath, at least they don't have to worry about the continued raging wind and snow.

Abel sat on the helicopter overlooking the still brightly lit Midtown Manhattan, and couldn't help but smile. Although Con Edison is very incompetent, everyone is used to the temperament of this monopoly power giant.

Here in Manhattan, every building and commercial building has its own independent power generation system. In the current large-scale power outage, there is no pressure to generate electricity and supply electricity in a short period of time.

After all, this is Manhattan. If there is a complete blackout and everything is dark, the Empire will not look good.

In contrast, the lights in Brooklyn, Queens, New Jersey and other places in the distance are not so brilliant.

Only some skyscrapers are brightly lit.

After all, there is no electricity yet, and the East Coast power supply system is so stretched.

He pulled down the collar of his windbreaker, slowly closed his eyes, and waited quietly to reach his destination.

The propeller raised up the white snow and sand in the sky. Abel bent slightly, squinted his eyes, and quickly walked towards the gate of the manor mansion under the cover of the wall of bodyguards around him.

"call--"

After entering the door, Abel let out a soft breath and let the two maids come forward to help him clean the snowflakes on his body and help him take off his coat. Avril, who was standing aside with her lips raised and a sweet smile on her face, walked over. He and Abel stopped talking to each other.

"Why are you the only one here? Where are Keira and Brittney?" Abel exchanged words with her and asked curiously after they separated.

"Miss Wilson hasn't come back yet. After you left, she also went to work in Manhattan. Britney, Artisia and Orlando are sleeping. And I...I have been waiting here for you to come back!"

"So good? This is not like your style." Abel said with a smile.

Don't look at Avril when he first took over. She was cautious and obedient in everything, as obedient as a puppy that someone just brought home.

After getting used to it, I learned all the postures and developed feelings.

She started to fall into her old ways.

After all, her character has more flamboyant and punk attributes. In addition, Abel also likes his women to have their own characteristics, so he does not impose too many restrictions on them in this aspect.

So now Avril also dares to be naughty in front of him, and occasionally shows off her temper.

Abel regarded this as a hobby, otherwise it would be too boring if all of them were the same as leather puppets.

"Hehehe~" I saw that the dress was completely different from the Avril with smoky makeup in the parallel time and space. The Avril, who was as pure and pure as a white lotus, giggled, "Dang~dang~ "Dang~"

She suddenly pulled out a report sheet from her pocket.

"You'll know just by looking at it."

Abel took it and took a look and found that it was an obstetrics and gynecology examination form issued by Williams Hospital in Manhattan, which he had just acquired.

Abel, who is already the father of more than a dozen children and will be the father of more children in the future, is no stranger to this thing.

The simple data above shows that the owner who needs to be checked is Miss Avril Lavigne, who has not long passed her 19th birthday.

She is pregnant.