America’s Road To Wealth

  Chapter 501 Landing in Britain Plan

  A few days after the celebration banquet, Abel did not spend the night with Kayla, who was "eager to seek a child", because those days happened to be her safe menstrual period.

   There is no need to waste bullets. After all, no matter how much ammunition he has, there are more women who want to be "killed" by him.

   Points are not enough, so naturally they can't be wasted.

  Little Laura, she and her best friend from Hanguo are busy with final exams.

   This allowed him to hang out with his Hollywood lovers for days.

   fell asleep one by one.

   Or two folded to sleep together,

  Three together sleep the same,

   Even those who were not pregnant slept together,

  Slept very happily...

   Hanging around for a few days is ridiculous.

  But no matter how happy the days are, they will get tired after a long time.

   No matter how beautiful the female body is, it will become tasteless after a long time.

   It doesn’t matter whether it’s Chinese or foreign, no matter how beautiful they are, and how many fans they have, when they marry well-known directors and wealthy businessmen, most of them don’t end well.

   Even if you are a goddess, it is also important to keep fresh.

   Otherwise, the psychological shelf life will not last long.

   At 9:30 in the morning, Abel met Keira Wilson with a grieving expression in his Cadillac monster car.

  Kayla, who has broken away from the girlish posture, has become more and more beautiful under the irrigation of Abel since she came to New York.

  If she had a better personality, she would have met Abel earlier.

  With her appearance, figure, and family background, she is fully qualified to be the mistress of the Smith family.

  However, nothing happened. She met Abel so late, and she couldn't compare with little Laura in character.

   More importantly, she has career ambitions, and has been thinking about snatching her brother's family business and inheriting her father's ancestral business.

  From this point alone, she can't be as willing as little Laura to be a husband and a child.

  So she can only exist as Abel's lover.

   "Stop pouting, it's almost time to hang a small cake basket."

  After getting in the car, looking at her pursed lips, Abel smiled and leaned up to kiss her, and then joked.

  Kayla didn't speak, but stepped forward, sniffing him with her beautiful little nose.

  Abel thought to himself that I have taken two showers and used so much body wash.

   It would be weird if you could still smell it.

   "I didn't smell the dirty smell of those Hollywood cousins. It seems that you washed it pretty clean."

  Kayla also understands this, she is just upset, and she wants to do this on purpose.

  Abel smiled and did not answer this topic, but brought up another topic.

   "Today is Friday, you, the general manager of Wells Fargo Bank, don't go to work in the company and come to meet your lover privately. That's not good."

  She was eloquent, "I'm at work, my dear customer. You must know that you are one of the most important VIPs of Wells Fargo Bank."

   This is true, because of the existence of Smith Capital and Abel's idea of ​​equal benefit.

  In terms of capital operation and financial investment. Abel insisted on not only using his own Smith Bank as a funding channel, he was inclusive, and used all available capital channels together.

   Among them, Wells Fargo, he has a lot of cooperation.

  In every capital operation, margin accounts provided by large commercial banks such as Wells Fargo, First Citigroup, and even JP Morgan Chase are used.

   In doing so, in addition to benefit sharing, it is also necessary to ensure the safety of capital flow.

  Only Wells Fargo and Bank earned more than $400 million in fees and interest from Abel last year.

   Wells Fargo’s net profit attributable to its parent company for the whole year of last year was only about US$10.8 billion.

   In other words, Abel and his company alone provided Wells Fargo with almost 3.9% of its net profit for the whole of last year.

   Such customers are not big customers, so no one is a big customer.

  Whoever serves as the head of the New York branch of Wells Fargo Bank will attach great importance to Abel and meet his requirements as much as possible.

   Keira said so, from this point of view, it can be said that there is nothing wrong at all.

   Seeing this, Abel simply climbed into the rear compartment of the Cadillac monster, which is separated from the front driving seat.

  The partition is made of a composite material composed of titanium alloy and sound-proof cotton, which is sound-insulating and heat-insulating, and can even defend against the impact of 7.5mm bullets.

  The biggest function is that after it rises, if you want to have some pleasant male and female activities in the back seat like a small Simmons, you don't have to worry about it.

  Actually, Abel just pushed the button to raise the partition.

  Kayla next to her, her extremely beautiful eyes were already filled with water.

  At the same time, he consciously squeezed into Abel's arms, muttering, "Why are you raising this?"

   "Ms. General Manager of Wells Fargo Bank, your most important customer needs your services now."

   "Woooooooooooooo..."

  The verbal communication between the two ended when Keira was blocked and could no longer speak fluently.

   As for other exchanges, this time has just begun.

   At noon, when the general manager of the New York branch of Wells Fargo Bank returned to her office with a blushing face and soft steps, she started her real work.

  Abel has also sat himself on the throne in the chairman's office of the group headquarters on the high floor of Smith Tower.

   In front of his desk, there is a stack of documents at the moment, this is just a small part.

  If he wanted to, there would be several truckloads of similar documents every day, all of which were group businesses worthy of his chairman's attention.

  If he doesn't want to, his executives and the think tanks of the Smith Thinking Group will help him deal with these business reports and other things.

   Most of the time, he doesn't want to.

  Because if he spends all his time dealing with these company businesses.

   Then he doesn't have to do other things.

  With the expansion of his industry, just dealing with the daily affairs of these group companies will consume most of his working time.

  So under normal circumstances, if it is not particularly urgent, he will hand it over to his subordinates for work related to his future strategy.

  He is not Zhuge Liang's character, and it is not his style to devote oneself to death.

  In this case, this stack of documents can still be placed in front of his eyes.

   In addition to the more important possibility, another possibility is that he is interested in it.

   And this document belongs to the latter, which is what he is interested in.

  This is sent by the Smith Intelligence Group, about Apple's latest product development, as well as the minutes of various important internal meetings.

  After the Nasdaq crisis. Even with the return of Jobs, Apple's share price, like many other listed Internet and high-tech companies, has fallen into negative value.

   Later, when Pixar was acquired, Abel and Jobs carried out a share exchange.

  He replaced Jobs' Pixar animation shares with the News Corporation shares he held.

   In the back, because of the "good relationship" with Jobs.

  Last year, when the 9/11 incident occurred, the stock market across the United States plummeted.

   At the invitation of Jobs, he also took a stake in Apple during the rescue process.

   At that time, he acquired about 15% of Apple's shares intermittently at very low prices, becoming Apple's largest institutional shareholder.

   is also Jobs' biggest supporter and backstage on Apple's board of directors.

  To be honest, even if Abel loses all his properties now, he will lose everything.

   As long as he can continue to hold the 15% stake in Apple.

  Ten years later, he is still a super rich man with tens of billions of dollars, or even hundreds of billions of dollars.

  Approximately 15% of Apple's stock, this investment alone is enough to make Abel the richest man in the future.

  Abel quickly finished flipping through the document.

  After reading it, he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.

   Sure enough, under his influence, after the iPod went on the market and achieved very impressive results.

  Jobs, the best product manager in the world, set his sights on the development and research of the iPhone several years in advance.

   Of course, it's not called an iPhone yet.

  It is called "ModelXXX", XXX is a reference to the number, which means it has several prototypes at the same time.

   At the beginning of this year, Apple has invested heavily in the research of the "Model" project.

   This is at least two years earlier than in the parallel time and space.

  Abel also does not know whether the Apple mobile phone developed in advance can detonate the industry in advance and promote the early emergence of the mobile Internet.

   This is not impossible, because during this period, 3G networks have already begun to be laid in many places in the United States and Europe.

  In some big cities in the United States, such as New York and Los Angeles, the core areas are now able to use mobile phone 3G signals.

  The 3G signal is an important reason why the mobile Internet can be realized.

   "As I become a butterfly, the butterfly effect. Many things, may change."

  After reading this document, Abel felt a little emotional.

   He knew that as time passed, as his status and wealth increased.

  My influence and changes on this world are getting deeper and deeper.

  In many parallel time and space, things that will happen after 2002 may not necessarily happen in this time and space.

  It may also be advanced or delayed, which is the effect of the butterfly effect.

  So after one's rebirth, one of the two most important weapons, that is, one's "prediction" of the future, will become less and less important.

   Fortunately, he has another more important weapon, which is financial talent like cheating.

  With this talent, even if you lose the advantage of the Prophet, you can still maintain a huge wealth, and even continue to proliferate.

  Close the document in his hand, Abel shook his head and chuckled, picked up the coffee cup beside the desk, and drank slowly.

   "Boom—"

   "Mr. Chairman, Mr. Jess and Mr. David, they are all ready."

The beautiful female assistant, who was wearing a pretty and fresh exquisite color-blocking flower shirt and a slim and elegant mermaid skirt, walked in with a pair of black high-heeled shoes. The elegant skirt made the curve even more graceful. The big white T is vividly displayed.

   "Well, I see."

  Abel put down his coffee cup, shook the mouse, and looked up at Amanda Hearst standing in front of him.

   Yes, that's Amanda.

  Amanda originally worked and practiced in Smith Media, AMC TV Group, a subsidiary of Smith Media.

  But two days ago, she and her cousin Lydia were both transferred to the secretariat of the Smith Intelligence Group by Abel.

   That is to say, since two days ago, the two of them have become Abel's secretary and assistant.

  This means that Abel's rule of not eating "nest grass" has been loosened.

  He directly took the grass he had already eaten, or the grass he wanted to eat, to the "nest".

  Strictly speaking, this is not considered eating grass on the edge of the nest.

   But it is obvious that Abel has already begun to enjoy the experience of "working as a secretary when you have something to do, but not when you have nothing to do".

  Amanda in front of her eyes is the best proof.

  Looking at the beautiful Jasmine of the Hearst family swaying in front of him, Abel smiled and said, "Secretary Hearst, are you still used to working in the Secretariat?"

   "Very good, very comfortable. Everyone is willing to help us, and Lydia said she likes this job."

  Actually, she is not short-sighted, but she deliberately wears non-prescription gold-rimmed glasses, which makes her look more like a dignified and charming lady with glasses. Amanda said with a smile.

  For being able to work with Abel, it is still very important work of the secretariat.

   Amanda is very happy. This means that she has officially entered the core area of ​​Abel's power system.

   Not only is she happy, but the Hearst family behind her is also happy.

  The only thing that makes Amanda hesitate a little is that Lydia is the same as her.

  She could tell that the guy in front of her definitely came with the idea of ​​accepting all sisters.

  Damn Lydia, still pretending not to want to.

  Hmph, if you really don’t want to, then you should resign and leave!

  Amanda felt that not only the stinky guy in front of him thought about it, but that little Bi in Lydia must also think about it very much.

   Amanda, who was thinking this way, after answering, saw Abel take out a very beautiful box from under the desk.

   "Take it and have a look." She saw Abel open the box and said with a smile.

  Inside the box, there is a pair of beautiful diamond earrings.

   At a glance, Amanda, who has no certification but has seen a lot since childhood and is definitely qualified to be a junior jewelry appraiser, recognized the diamond earrings in the box, which should be produced by Harry Winston.

   This brand enjoys the reputation of "King of Diamonds" in the jewelry industry. What he is best at is all kinds of jewelry related to diamonds.

   Each diamond is carefully selected to be part of a cluster setting to maximize their fire and brilliance, and is very famous and commonly referred to as "garland" jewelry.

   "Two days ago, I had someone buy it at Sotheby's New York Summer Auction."

   "For me?" Amanda's beautiful eyes widened, and she asked uncertainly in surprise.

  Abel smiled and glanced at her, "What do you think!"

   "Great! Giggle..."

   thump—

   "Bo~"

"thank you boss."

  Amanda took the initiative to step forward, leaned over and printed a bright rose mark on Abel's cheek, her pretty face was slightly flushed, and she was very happy.

   "Haha! Okay, let's get out."

  Amanda turned around obediently, tilting up the plump and round tun wrapped in tun.

"Snapped!"

   There was a crisp sound.

   She twisted her slender waist like silk, and walked out of the office slowly. It seemed that she was worried that Abel would not see him clearly, and she deliberately increased the swing.

   When the office door was closed, Abel looked away, shook his head and laughed, and clicked the video icon with the mouse. After the pop-up window, the black screen quickly brightened, and two pictures appeared in the video screen that were full of seats.

  One is the real-time picture of the meeting room of Smith Capital in New York.

  The other is the conference room of the European Smith Capital in London.

   "It's time to start."

  At the last moment, Abel was still flirting with Amanda.

  The next moment, he nodded to the people facing him calmly, and said lightly:

   "Because the target is in London, Jess, you go first."

  In the screen, Jess, CEO of Smith Financial Group in Europe, stood up and saluted the camera respectfully before speaking.

  “…Because of concerns about the financial system, mainly the monetary system. Investors in London have already experienced phased panic selling.”

"It's different from the New York stock market. Yesterday, June 24, the London stock market suffered a severe setback. The FTSE index fell below the 6,500-point mark for the first time since April 1998. Affected by the London stock market, the German DAX30 index rose, and the French CAC40 index, The European Stoxx 50 index, all fell."

   "In the past week, we have shorted European stock index futures, and the income has reached 1.43 billion pounds..."

  Hearing the performance report, Abel nodded with a smile.

   As I said before, shorting the British pound is of little benefit to Abel.

  One of his real tricks is actually here.

   As an important currency in the world, it is one of the important economic countries in Europe.

  The fall of the British pound is bound to affect changes in the British domestic stock market, and even the entire European stock market.

  So while cooperating with Soros, Abel also ordered the European branch of Smith Capital to short the stock indexes of European countries.

  In the past month, they have earned 1.4 billion pounds, which is more than 2 billion U.S. dollars at the current exchange rate. Isn't that better than the little money you make on the pound?

  Abel also knew that he was not the only one doing this.

   That guy Soros, even Morgan and others, and some other Wall Street investment banks must be doing this kind of thing.

  Weaken the European economy, which is even the basic national policy of the United States now that the European Union has just begun to fully issue the euro!

   And Abel is sure it's not just Americans doing this.

  The Europeans' own financial groups must have some people taking advantage of the fire to rob and distribute their own country's national wealth.

  If it is said that real capitalists have no concept of family and country, then there are even less real financiers.

  However, the global economy is now very integrated.

  The British pound fell, affecting the British stock market and even the European stock market.

  The changes in the British and European stock markets will also affect the form of the global economy.

  Like now, the U.S. financial and commodity markets have also begun to fluctuate greatly these days.

  Affected by this, gold, which has been rising slowly for a long time, has also increased the negative factors for falling.

   It is reflected in the market, that is, the price of gold futures has fallen for the sixth consecutive day.

   But this is a good thing for Abel. He has been long-term international spot gold since the beginning of this year, and he is also optimistic that gold will continue to grow in the future.

   Now that gold is falling, of course he chooses to cover his position and increase his holdings of more spot gold.

  Jess' report continues.

  "...London time, this morning, before the London stock market opened, HSBC announced that it would raise 9.7 billion pounds of funds through the issuance of new shares to increase its capital adequacy ratio."

"At the same time, the bank announced the performance report for the first half of 2002. The report showed that in the first half of this year, the bank's pre-tax profit was 4.3 billion pounds, a sharp drop of 30% from the previous year. After the opening, the bank's stock price plummeted Eight percent. Affected by this, Standard Chartered Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland also suffered declines between 2% and 10%.

   "Tsk tsk..."

  Abel heard all kinds of data reported by his subordinates, he smiled and said softly: "It seems that it has already started."

  To be honest, although money is just a bunch of numbers to Abel now, making money will always be a very happy thing.

  However, Abel also knows that the "benefits" of the pound's fall have basically come to an end here.

   This is not a large-scale financial crisis or the Great Depression. It is already the limit for the stock prices of these banks and large British companies to fall so much.

   It's time to stop and prepare to launch the 'Landing on Britain' plan.

"Two days later, on June 27th, all our short-selling European and British stock indexes and stock market funds will be withdrawn! That's right, all positions will be cleared! Don't keep any money, prepare funds, and wait for my order. Ready to start buying the entire British Isle!"

  Smith Capital UK and US in two conference rooms.

   Except for Jess and David who knew the plan, everyone else stared dumbfounded at the bright-eyed, serious-looking big boss who was definitely not joking.

  And this is the real reason why Abel took the initiative to attack the British pound and pushed Soros out as a target!

   Sniping the pound? How much money can you make?

  What he really wants is a series of high-quality British assets including HSBC!

  (end of this chapter)