America’s Road To Wealth

  Chapter 505 "The Hanging Sun in Manhattan"

  The young Miranda Kerr and the even younger Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, when they were cautious and cautious when getting along with a group of seniors in the company.

  Abel has come to Smith Tower, a financial safe house inside Smith Capital.

  He is looking at the exchange rates of the Canadian dollar and various other international currencies, observing how they have changed over the past two months.

  Since the beginning of the new century, and even the end of the last century.

  Canada, a country that is producing and exporting bulk commodities, is transforming into a major oil exporter in the true sense.

  In this case, the oil price is bound to affect the Canadian dollar exchange rate.

  In recent years, Canada's oil production has increased rapidly.

  Changes in crude oil prices and changes in the exchange rate of the Canadian dollar are more and more positively correlated.

  When the crude oil rises, the Canadian dollar will also rise, and when the crude oil falls, the Canadian dollar will also fall.

   However, affected by other factors, sometimes the two will go out of independent independent market.

   Most of the time, this means that once the market believes that high oil prices indicate a slowdown in global economic growth, the oil price factor may weigh on the Canadian dollar.

   The Canadian dollar is only just getting started as a "petrocurrency", so the link between the Canadian dollar and crude oil prices will likely strengthen as Canadian oil production continues to gradually expand over the next few years.

  Since this period of time, part of Smith Capital has been complying with Abel's request and opening positions to short the Canadian dollar.

  In order to ensure the safety of funds, and at the same time try to prevent the Canadian authorities from discovering so early.

  Abel let Smith Capital use the accounts of three banks: HSBC, Bank of Montreal and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

  The reason why there is HSBC is that HSBC Group has a large scale in Canada and is the sixth or seventh largest bank in Canada.

  The latter two banks are the second of the five largest banks in Canada.

   Especially the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, many times it can even rank among the top three in the global banking list.

  Some people may say, since in order to ensure the safety of funds, shouldn’t these Canadian banks be allowed to transfer Abel’s funds?

   They are Canadian banks after all...

   The reality, however, is that because they are Canadian banks, they are more worthy of Able's use.

  This will make the capital flow of Smith Capital appear more natural, like a normal foreign exchange investment in Canada.

  As for the leak issue, don't forget that Canada is also a capital country.

  In the country of capital, in most cases, as long as you can guarantee a profit.

   Even if you want to make the other party treason, the other party will never hesitate for long.

  If you hesitate, it's just that the benefits you give are not enough.

  This is the capital under the new seed oil doctrine, which is the capital in "Das Kapital".

  The funds for shorting the Canadian dollar this time have used about 13 billion US dollars of Smith Capital since the position was opened for more than a month.

  It is about the same as Abel spent on sniping the British pound.

  The difference is that on the Canadian dollar side, Abel uses a very high leverage ratio, almost 20 times.

  In other words, Smith Capital is now operating more than 260 billion US dollars of funds, and has established a large number of short positions in Canadian dollars.

At Abel's request, Smith Capital's Canadian dollar direct trading is USD/CAD, and cross trading is AUD/CAD, Swiss Franc/CAD, EUR/CAD, and GBP/CAD. are the five varieties.

  At the moment, USD/CAD is at 1.0840, AUD/CAD is at 0.9602, GBP/CAD is at 1.7750, CHF/CAD is at 1.2012, and EUR/CAD is at 1.4842.

  Smith Capital, at this moment, holds a total of 50,000 long positions in USD/CAD, (a 50,000-hand long position in USD/CAD is equivalent to a 50,000-hand short position in CAD/USD)

  40,000 lots of long positions in AUD/CAD, 40,000 lots of long positions in GBP/CAD, 20,000 lots of long positions in CHF/CAD, and 40,000 lots of long positions in EUR/CAD. A total of more than 190,000 hands.

   This is a position that Smith Capital has slowly built up over a month. But now, Abel plans to continue to increase his position!

  Talent told him that this position is far from enough.

  However, when he intends to let David command and continue to increase his position.

  He found that because too many businesses were going on at the same time, Smith Capital was actually a little understaffed.

  As an investment bank in Smith Financial Group, a capital market sniper.

   Today's Smith Capital is taking care of various businesses that a large investment bank should have.

  It is regarded as a serious investment banking business, including:

  Corporate financing, mergers and acquisitions, financial consulting, securities underwriting, securities trading, fund management, project financing, venture capital, credit asset securitization, etc...

  The relatively unserious investment banking business is generally dominated by Abel.

  Like the sniping pound plan initiated by him and cooperating with Soros.

   There is a follow-up, the "landing in Britain plan" that intends to get involved in a large number of high-quality British companies.

   There is also a long-term long-term gold plan that has been laid out since the beginning of the year.

  Plus the current sniper short Canadian dollar business.

  Compared with the former, these businesses are less serious.

  If the former is normal investment banking business.

  No matter how prettified these things are, they are actually the plunder of Chiguoguo!

   Predation in financial and capital markets.

  It is also these businesses, although the risk is actually higher, but it is also easier to make money because of this.

  Most of the windfalls and profits of large investment banks come from these unscrupulous businesses.

   These unscrupulous businesses have a name, which is collectively referred to as "international hot money".

  Suddenly, Abel found that the staff of Smith Capital was not enough.

  As his first company, it is the foundation of his life.

  When Smith Capital first started, it was completely meritocratic. All elites, more than 100 operators only serve him.

   Later, as the scale expanded, the business increased. Smith Capital is always hiring.

  In three years, it has grown from a small Wall Street financial company with only 100 people back then to about 2,500 in the United States, more than 600 in the London branch, and a total of more than 3,000 people.

  A company with more than 3,000 employees seems to be quite a lot. But for Smith Capital, which is a large investment bank and already one of the six sons of Wall Street investment banks, this number of people is simply not enough!

  For example, they are also six sons of Wall Street investment banks.

  Merrill Lynch has about 50,000 to 60,000 employees around the world.

  Goldman Sachs has about 40,000 to 42,000 people.

  The number of Lehman Brothers Bank is about 25,000 people.

  Bear Stearns is almost 20,000 people. Morgan Stanley is the most exaggerated. At its peak, the number of employees worldwide exceeded 90,000, and there are still more than 70,000 employees now.

  Even compared with Bear Stearns, which has the smallest number of employees, Smith Capital, which has only more than 3,000 employees, is far inferior.

  Although this is related to Smith Capital, which has not yet started globalization.

   There are not so many global branches, so naturally there are not so many employees.

   But such a little person is really sorry for its title as one of the six major investment banks on Wall Street.

   There will be such a situation, and Abel must also bear certain responsibilities.

  When it merged with the Texas consortium, the staff of the investment bank on the Texas consortium should have been merged with Smith Capital.

  If you do that, it is impossible to have such a small number of people.

  Abel considered at the time that it would affect his control in Smith Capital, so he prevented the parallel flow of personnel.

   But now, Abel believes that he has completely controlled the entire Smith Financial Group.

  Smith Capital, it is time to start a big expansion.

   Otherwise, there will be a shortage of personnel for many businesses and tasks, and there will be no way to carry out them.

   It's just the recruitment and expansion of personnel, and the establishment of global branches, all of which take time.

   It's not something that can be done with the click of a button, or a few words from him.

  So now David and Jess are busy sniping the pound, buying stocks in British companies, and keeping an eye on the European market.

   Shorting the Canadian dollar, Abel had to do it himself.

  He summoned more than 100 traders, and in this trading room, directed them to start building positions.

  Having been in the industry for three years, a financial novice who could only rely on talent in the past is now a financial veteran.

   Coupled with his terrifying talent, even without David's command, he can still complete the corresponding work.

  At this moment, in front of Abel, there are a total of 18 computer screens. He looks at various foreign exchange charts and issues orders from time to time.

  This requires a high degree of concentration and full concentration. It doesn't look tired, but it is actually very tiring.

  Plus Abel rarely, well, hardly ever did this kind of work. After he personally went into battle, he found that it was not so easy to be true.

   It's no wonder that many Wall Street executives can't help but get high on drugs.

  This kind of work intensity often lasts for several days, sometimes even half a month, with only occasional rest in between.

  It is indeed difficult for a normal person to survive without medication.

   In turn, those who can survive without medication are abnormal and ruthless people.

  David Mellon is such a ruthless person, and he is Abel's fierce fighter in the financial market.

   Soon the whole morning passed. By noon, Abel's mood became irritable.

  He tried his best to suppress his irritability, continued to stare at the market, and personally directed the traders to trade.

  USD/CAD, AUD/CAD, CHF/CAD, EUR/CAD, GBP/CAD, these Canadian dollar-based currency pairs are all in a volatile market at the moment.

  Now the moving averages of their daily charts are all in a long position, and Smith Capital is building positions at key support positions.

   USD/CAD is in the support position of the 5 moving average, oscillating in the range of 20 points.

  AUD/CAD is at the support position of the 20 moving average, fluctuating in the range of 15 points

  CHF/CAD is at the support position of the 5 moving average, and it is oscillating up and down along it, shuttling back and forth.

  Euro/Canadian dollar fell below the 5 moving average and gained support about 10 points above the 10 moving average.

   GBP/CAD is stalemate at the 5 moving average position...

   "No, I am really not used to this kind of work. I am not a fierce general who charges into battle, I am a marshal and a king who can command everything."

   Let the generals do what should be done by the generals.

  He has already made up his mind to promote a few more middle and high-level people.

   In this way, you can share your own work at the same time, and it can also balance the current status of Jess and David within Smith Capital.

   The inner irritability was hard to suppress for a long time.

  In his office in Smith Capital, Abel took a deep breath, reached out and pressed the answering machine.

   "Amanda, come in!"

   Soon the office door was pushed open, and Amanda walked in wearing a tight short-sleeved white shirt and a black gauze skirt.

"Close the door."

  Abel turned the direction of the boss chair, then raised his hands and crossed them behind his head, looking like an old man waiting to be served.

  And heard his orders, and saw him put on this look.

Amanda naturally knew what he wanted, her eyes sparkled, and after the door was locked, she took off a silk square scarf on her wrist, then quickly gathered up her loose hair, and tied a ponytail with the folded square scarf , walked to Abel.

  Working as an employee of the content department of a TV station is an easy job. But the corresponding income is not high, and the benefits are average.

  Being an assistant or secretary has high income, good benefits, and a higher status within the company.

  But that is really not easy at all!

   Not only professional knowledge, but also excellent corporate administrative ability.

  At the same time, sometimes I have to put out the fire for the boss...

After 40 minutes, the anger finally dissipated. Abel tidied up refreshedly. He picked up the mineral water that Amanda had just opened on the table and was just about to drink when he suddenly remembered something. stand up.

  At this time, Amanda came out of the bathroom while wiping the water stains on her face, and gave him an angry look.

  In the afternoon, Abel decided not to "waste" his time on shorting the Canadian dollar.

  Abel directly called David, who was so busy, to keep an eye on him, or David himself temporarily found someone in the company to take his place.

   It is for the general to do things like charge into battle.

   What the monarch should do, the most important thing is to be good at employing people and employing people without doubt.

   All that is left is to wait for the generals to charge successfully on the battlefield and capture the princesses of other countries to offer them up for the king to enjoy.

   But Abel was not idle, he just put down the specific work to be done.

  But he still undertakes the work that a "king" of a business empire should do.

   As usual, Abel was at Smith Tower, working another afternoon.

  From the beginning of June to now, he has been in New York for more than a month, and he has been working all the time.

   For Abel, this is considered hard work.

   Time passed, and soon the sun set.

  The sunset poked out half of its head between the gaps in the skyscrapers, slowly falling, and finally disappeared at the end of the busy street. It's sunset over Manhattan.

  Abel looked at the roadside scenery through the car window with a satisfied face.

  Because tomorrow is the weekend, the streets are obviously a little more leisurely.

   There is no traffic flow during peak hours, and there are no anxious figures of bustling office workers.

  Even the locals are willing to sit down and spend more than ten minutes enjoying such a pleasant time, admiring the rare view of the sky over Manhattan.

  Suddenly.

   "Just pull over!"

After Abel spoke to the driver, the glossy black Cadillac stopped on the side of the road. A number of bodyguards quickly got off from several SUVs in front and behind, and stood guard around. There were other seemingly ordinary vehicles in the distance. It also stopped, and people who looked like tourists or ordinary citizens walked down and patrolled nearby.

  A total of about 20 people, this is the security service Rock Security provided for Abel when he was in New York.

  Abel got out of the car, nodded and smiled at Johnson, one of the Four King Kong who opened the door for him, and said, "Is there any cash?"

   "Yeah." With a stern face, Johnson took out a hundred dollars from his pocket and handed it to Abel.

   "Thank you." Abel smiled and raised the one hundred dollars in his hand, and walked to the side street, in front of an old man with a stall who was drawing street sketches.

   "Hey, old man. See you again. $100, I've got all your stuff, how about it?"

  The old man who drew street sketches had long been attracted by the previous ostentation. When Abel got out of the car, the old man recognized him immediately.

   "Oh oh oh..." The old man was so excited that he obviously recognized Abel's identity.

   In fact, this is the third meeting between the two.

  The first time was when Abel picked up Icana in Central Park. At that time, Abel was still unknown in the United States.

  At least 99.999% of Americans don't know him.

  The second time was when Abel was running in the morning with little Laura in Central Park.

  At that time, Abel's reputation was already very big.

   This is the third time.

   "Of course no problem! Mr. Smith..." the old man said excitedly.

  Abel smiled and motioned for the old man to get up from the folding stool.

  After Abel sat down, he just picked up his paintbrush when Edward came over, "I have ensured safety. But to be conservative, I have increased the number of people and notified Mr. Crick at the same time."

  Abel nodded, although his feelings surged for a while, he also wanted to pretend to be a big 13 in front of ordinary people.

  But there should be security measures, which are absolutely indispensable.

   Disturbing the people? What's wrong with a little disturbance?

  He didn't drive the Cadillac to the Lincoln Memorial!

  Holding the paintbrush, I glanced at the drawing board covered with inferior drawing paper, looking up at the beautiful and magnificent Manhattan sunset hanging in front of the skyscrapers.

  The memories and abilities belonging to the predecessor in the body emerged instantly.

   Picking up the old man's average quality but very complete painting tools, Abel started painting quickly.

   Such a big battle here has already attracted many passing citizens.

   A large number of passers-by who had been inspected and were kept at a safe distance at the same time, like the old man who painted, recognized Abel who was serious about painting in front of the drawing board under the setting sun.

  Abel’s appearance has always been super good. Even people like Anna Wintour think from the bottom of their hearts that he is actually very suitable for a job in the fashion or entertainment industry.

  Which means his looks are not only photogenic, but also really good.

  At this time, under the setting sun, the aesthetic angle is full, the warm golden sunlight is full, the atmosphere and his identity are full at the same time.

  Some fangirls whispered excitedly, thumped the bear, and some bold girls wanted to take a group photo, but were stopped by the bodyguards.

  Abel was not moved by the outside world. When he started painting, a sense of tranquility that he hadn't experienced for a long time just emerged.

  The art talent of the predecessor is really not covered, even the mood can be affected.

  When New York Police Department Chief Klick, after arranging the surrounding security, came over to persuade Abel to go back.

  The last ray of sunshine in the sunset is over.

  Abel also stopped his painting.

  A sketch of "Suspended Sun in Manhattan" has already appeared on poor quality paper.

   That night.

  All the local TV stations in New York took this incident as a key news when they broadcast it.

  American billionaire, philanthropist, and famous collector Eli Broad.

  The old man openly announced in the media that he was willing to spend 100 million US dollars to acquire Abel's "Manhattan Hanging Sun".

Eli Broad claims that Abel Smith's "Manhattan at Sunset" is no different from Van Gogh's "Willows at Sunset" or Joseph Mallord William Turnaiyo's "On the Lake". Sunset.

  The artistic composition is as high as hundreds of floors.

  He likes it very much, and hopes that Mr. Smith can give up his love and satisfy his old man's little hobby of collecting.

   A book friend reminded that little Laura was pregnant before, and it was indeed true after checking. I wrote it myself and forgot. Now if I want to change it, I need to change three or four chapters at a time, so I won’t change it. Remarks, it is a small BUG, ​​hereby explain.

  (end of this chapter)