Hollywood Hunter

It was also on December 1st, Japan on the other side of the ocean. After another interest rate hike by the Bank of Japan in November, the Nikkei 225 index maintained an upward posture despite the shocks, and broke through the 40,000 point mark in the afternoon of that day.

As of the close in the afternoon local time, the Nikkei 225 index was finally fixed at 40039.

When various circles in Japan cheered for this record-breaking moment, a gossip from Wall Street quickly began to spread.

It is said that according to very reliable sources, Cersei Capital, which has been the focus of financial circles in recent months, has actually withdrawn from the Japanese market secretly.

All the financial securities product portfolios related to the Japanese market held by Cersei Capital's 1 to 5 sub-funds were packaged and sold to the Japanese consortium by Simon Westeros. Therefore, during this period, many hedge funds that follow Cersei Capital's operations around the Japanese market are not actually following Simon Westeros, but following the Japanese government!

In the past few months, at least tens of billions of dollars of funds in the entire financial market have followed up with Cersei Capital to chase the Japanese stock market. Everyone understands what this will mean once the rumors are true.

The news was released after the Japanese stock market closed on Friday. Because of the time difference, it was still Friday morning in North America.

The Lehman Brothers team originally planned to let the rumors ferment in the following weekend, so as to form a sufficient panic effect before the market opens next Monday.

However, the spread of this news is far faster than Lehman Brothers imagined. It was only a day, not just on Wall Street. To be precise, all the people who should or should not know know.

The first thing the North American local media who heard the news thought was to contact the relevant people of Cersei Capital to confirm the authenticity of the news.

Immediately, many media found that Simon Westeros was not in North America, even the president of Westeros James Rebold was also in Europe. Another important figure of Cersei Capital, Janet Johnston, also failed. contact with. Trying to contact the senior executives of Daenerys Entertainment on the West Coast, but still did not get any useful reply.

Compared with the media, some investment bank executives and even high-level government officials tried to get in touch with Simon Westeros, but also failed to contact Simon himself. James Rebold, who can be contacted, is also a vague remark, which is undoubtedly a very obvious default.

Therefore, although the speed of news dissemination exceeded the expectations of the Lehman Brothers team, there is one thing they did not estimate wrong.

Panic began to spread!

Cersei Capital’s goals are too obvious, there are too many insiders, and there are various connections that are difficult to conceal during the period. From the beginning, Simon did not think that this matter could be concealed forever. The Japanese obviously did not expect this. The two sides reached an agreement. The most important clause in, in fact, after the Japanese stock market turned, Simon no longer participated in the short-selling behavior of the Japanese stock market.

Athens, Greece.

Because it was too cold in London at this time, Simon and Janet only lived there for three days, and the woman couldn't stand it. The two flew to Athens, the capital of Greece, on the Mediterranean Sea.

When receiving news from North America about the leaks of Cersei Capital’s 1 to 5 sub-funds, Simon and Janet had just returned from the private island of Johnston’s family in the Aegean Sea and were rich in the mountains of northern Athens. Rest in the mansion in the district, and plan to go to Finland next Monday.

The Westeros acquisition team has negotiated the final contract details with Nokia, and the two parties will sign a contract next Monday.

Because this day was expected, Simon was not surprised.

Originally planned to remain silent as planned, at noon Athens time on Sunday, the sudden visit of the former president of the Bank of Japan Haruo Maekawa in Melbourne at the end of June still interrupted Simon's leisurely leisure.

Maekawa Haruo and his group of four people, besides him, Yoko Kosugi, the "gift" that Simon has always rejected, still followed. The reason for the introduction was Maekawa and others' interpreters. The other two were Maekawa's assistants.

Everyone greeted briefly, and Simon took Mae Chuan and his party to the terrace in the backyard of the mansion.

This 6-acre mansion is also built on the hillside. The specially constructed viewing terrace overlooks the entire city of Athens, but it is too far from the sea to see the sea level. However, since the surrounding area can become a rich area, the view is naturally excellent.

Haruo Maekawa did not have the interest to appreciate the beautiful scenery. Simon, Janet, Haruo Maekawa, and Yoko Kosugi sat down at the round table. When the servant served coffee, Haruo Maekawa, who was obviously tired, smiled vigorously: "Congratulations, Simon, that "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" game seems to be selling well during this time."

Simon took a sip of coffee, smiled and nodded, "Thank you."

"Before I came here, I understood in advance that the royalties that Yamauchi has adopted against Nintendo over the years are a bit too much. Since Daenerys Entertainment intends to enter the field of video games and has achieved such outstanding results, I feel that Nintendo is in In addition to Capcom, Konami and other companies, it is also appropriate to give Blizzard Studio a special quota overseas."

Nintendo’s royalties system is simply to review the content of game manufacturers and extract royalties equivalent to licensing fees from each game cassette.

In addition, Nintendo personally monopolizes the production of game cassettes, which further reduces the profit margins of game manufacturers.

Because six game companies, such as Capcom and Konami, became Nintendo’s game content suppliers first, after the rise of Nintendo, these six companies were granted a preferential policy. Capcom and other companies deliberately produced game cassettes on their own and needed to pay The royalties are also much lower than ordinary game manufacturers who cannot enjoy special offers.

Daenerys Entertainment’s "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" video game released last month, with a cassette price of US$60, Nintendo will take US$20, minus the profits of the distributors and other aspects of the cassette production cost and royalties. Daenerys Entertainment can only get a gross profit of about 30% from each cassette.

In comparison, companies such as Capcom and Konami have a preferential policy, and the gross profit per box of game cassettes can reach 50%.

Nancy previously predicted that the first generation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles could make $100 million in profits for the company in the next year. If Nintendo's preferential policy is obtained, this number can increase by at least 50%.

Haruo Maekawa drew such a generous bargaining chip with little ground, and Simon couldn't help being a little surprised. He didn't doubt that Haruo Maekawa was making an empty promise. Although Nintendo’s president Yamauchi is strong, Japanese companies are basically under the control of various consortia, and Nintendo is no exception.

If the top of the Japanese consortium exerts pressure, Yamauchi will have to obediently submit no matter how strong it is.

Nintendo can still maintain its heyday for at least another five years. Such a special quota may mean hundreds of millions of dollars in profits for Daenerys Entertainment.

However, Simon did not show too much emotion on his face, nor did he immediately accept Maekawa's promise, but said: "In fact, I still very much recognize Nintendo's royalty system."

Hearing Simon's words, Maekawa Haruo realized that he was acting too eagerly, and followed the tone of the young man in front of him, saying: "This surprised me a bit. Simon, there have been people criticizing Yamauchi's decision in recent years. The two preferential manufacturers have therefore broken with Nintendo."

Simon said: "If there are no constraints, many commercial fields will rapidly prosper and then quickly decline, just like the Atari crash in the past. Nintendo’s system is a kind of restriction on the market, which can make the video game field move towards one. This is a sustainable and healthy state of development. Therefore, Nintendo’s system is not wrong. If manufacturers that break with Nintendo have the opportunity to become rule-makers, they will actually do the same."

Haruo Maekawa nodded, then smiled and asked, "Simon, what about you?"

"Of course I am the same," Simon said. "In fact, any person has the ambition to become a rule maker, but most people do not have this kind of strength."

Haruo Maekawa suddenly asked, "Simon, do you want to beat Nintendo?"

Simon shook his head and said, "Daenerys Entertainment does not intend to set foot in the console field. We will only focus on the development of game content. However, Atari and Nintendo have both proven the huge profits in the console field, and this industry is destined to usher in Many new players. Moreover, Nintendo’s slowness in the new generation of game consoles is well known. Sega’s 32-bit game console has been launched for nearly a year, but Nintendo’s sfc continues to delay. Therefore, it is destined to decline. This decline is only because of its unenterprise, not because of the royalty system."

When Simon said this, he thought of Apple.

In the past, Apple’s sales of app software were actually imitating Nintendo’s royalty system. On the other hand, compared to Nintendo’s unpretentiousness, Apple is always able to surpass the Android field, which is destined to be difficult for the Android camp to compete with Apple.

"I will tell Yamauchi what you said," Haruo Maekawa took a sip of the coffee in front of him, and began to talk about the topic: "Simon, I'm here this time, I hope you can make some public statements."

Simon nodded and waited for Haruo Maekawa to continue.

Haruo Maekawa said: "We have found out that the news came from Lehman Brothers, a subsidiary of American Express. In the past two days, the situation in North America and Asia has been very bad. We hope you can publicly publish in some media. Economic rhetoric."

Simon said: "What about Cersei Capital 1 to 5 sub-funds?"

"This is also an important point. We hope that you will tell the media that you transferred the investment portfolios of Cersei Capital's 1 to 5 sub-funds in June, but the Japanese stock market did not show signs of decline in the following six months. People predict it will be more dynamic."

Simon did not care about Haruo Maekawa unknowingly moving the Cersei Capital No. 1 to No. 5 sub-funds ahead of time to June. Strictly speaking, this is not wrong. The two parties did confirm the transaction at the end of June: "Actually, Maekawa, you should understand that my statement now has little meaning. Now that Lehman Brothers has released the news, they must have established a large number of short positions. Perhaps, many financial institutions have already done so in advance."

"But there are still more long-term capital not leaving the market," Maekawa Haruo continued: "Simon, as long as you express your stance, those funds that are still long-term will definitely make efforts. We will try our best to maintain market stability."

Simon said: "Maekawa, you should know that there is indeed a serious bubble in the Japanese economy, and a turnaround in the Japanese stock market is inevitable."

"I understand, Simon, we only hope that this kind of steering can be gentler and give us more time to relax."

Simon rubbed and weighed the coffee cup in his hand.

The Japanese stock market has broken through 40,000 points, and it has clearly peaked.

In my memory, the Japanese stock market fell from a high of more than 38,000 points to 28,000 points, and it took a full four months. This was indeed quite mild. It also shows that the Japanese government's rescue measures at that time were very effective.

Now, if he doesn’t do anything, with the panic accumulated in the market in the last two days, even if the Japanese stock market has a price limit, there will be no Black Monday like North America in 1987, but it is likely to be a collapse after the market opens next week. The continuous decline.

Once this happens, some hedge funds that were misled by Cersei Capital in the early stage are likely to suffer heavy losses, and Simon will inevitably be blamed at that time.

Conversely, if Simon is now showing some optimism about the Japanese market, delaying the downward trend of the Japanese stock market, and giving those hedge funds time to flee, this is actually redeeming his own possible targeting. Now that the Japanese stock market has determined that it will go down, he did so just to let those shorts make money later, but there is nothing wrong with it.

After making up his mind, Simon raised his head again to look at the front, Haruokawa said, "So, what should I do?"

Haruo Maekawa beckoned to the two assistants who were waiting not far away, took out a document from the handbag they brought and handed it over, saying: "We have prepared some documents, you can take a look. In addition, we I have also greeted various media in Japan and North America. As long as the manuscript is confirmed, it will be on the headlines of many newspapers tomorrow morning. Also, if you are willing to accept TV interviews, that would be even better."

Simon picked up the information and looked through it, shook his head and said: "Forget the interview, I don't like to show up on TV."

"So, as long as you can express your position in the newspaper," Haruo Maekawa did not reluctantly, but also proactively said: "In addition, all the press releases we complete will be given to you in advance to ensure that there will be no surprises between us. Disagreements outside."

Simon nodded.

I am very satisfied with the Japanese arrangement.

He didn't want some opinions that he didn't know would appear in the newspaper.

At the same time, I also understand in my heart that the Japanese are so cautious, not because they have much respect for him, they should still worry that he will suddenly repent and refuse to admit it.