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After the market was closed for two days over the weekend, in the new week, international hot money once again launched a larger impact on the pound.

Facing the turbulent pound sell-off in the foreign exchange market, the British government just barely supported it for two days on Monday and Tuesday.

While giving up on guarding the exchange rate, the British government also officially announced its withdrawal from the European monetary system.

Anyone who knows a little about the international financial situation understands that the United Kingdom, or the whole of Europe, suffered this disaster. In the final analysis, it is the United States on the other side of the Atlantic in order to maintain the global hegemony of the dollar.

With the withdrawal of the pound sterling from the European monetary system, the European Community's attempt to use this system against the US dollar was officially shattered.

European media have recently criticized the Quantum Fund led by Soros and other international hot money. Soros is also'notorious' for this. But for anyone with a discerning eye, everyone actually knows that the real promotion of this matter is. It's actually the US government.

Soros is just a ‘early bird’, a ‘scapegoat’.

Of course, whether it is a scapegoat or a scapegoat, Soros is not a loss when he is pushed to the table.

After the pound gave up resistance, European currencies such as the Spanish peseta and the French franc have been attacked to varying degrees. The European monetary system has basically existed in name only.

Throughout the confrontation, the British government invested 27 billion pounds in stabilizing the exchange rate, but it was still defeated. But at the same time, Soros alone made a profit of 1 billion US dollars in this attack on European currencies. The total profit of other international hot money is even more difficult to estimate.

Soros became famous in the first battle, and he was in the limelight on Wall Street for a time.

At the same time, the media soon noticed Cersei Capital, which had been silent during the attack on the European currency system.

Since the stock market crash in 1987, the subsequent Japanese stock market bubble, the collapse of the US bond market, etc., Cersei Capital has been active. However, this time an excellent arbitrage opportunity, Cersei Capital turned out to be silent, which was obviously abnormal.

In the media's attention, insiders broke out soon.

"The Wall Street Journal" published a special feature article on September 26, the title is also quite eye-catching: "Cersei Capital is no longer magical."

The article started with the European currency crisis that had just settled, and first touted the brilliant performance of the Quantum Fund in this crisis. Then the conversation turned around and began to expose the ‘insider’.

The article describes that just a week ago, three top fund managers from Cersei Capital's Cersei Fund Management Company suddenly resigned and took away a hedge fund team of more than ten people. These people rejected the solicitation of other counterparts on Wall Street, quickly established a brand-new hedge fund, and began to raise funds.

As the most confidential company on Wall Street, Cersei Capital has always disclosed very little information to the outside world.

This time, the reporter of The Wall Street Journal was keenly aware of something. After some twists and turns, he finally got the opportunity to interview three fund managers who resigned from Cersei Capital.

The reason for the departure of the three managers was the European currency crisis that just passed.

It turned out that one of the three managers had predicted that the European currency crisis might occur as far as a year ago, and paid back to the highest level of Cersei Capital, hoping to make arrangements in advance.

The highest level of Cersei Capital is naturally the Westeros couple.

However, unlike in the past, this time, the Westeros made a misjudgment, believing that the pound sterling, which has been strong for hundreds of years, cannot depreciate, and with the strength of one or several hedge funds, it is impossible to shake it. The entire European Community. Therefore, sniping on European currencies is totally whimsical.

In the following year, the signs of imbalance within the European monetary system became more and more obvious, especially after other Wall Street hedge funds began to deploy, the three fund managers submitted reports to the Westeros more than once, hoping to be able to This is laid out.

The results were rejected.

In the end, Cersei Capital could only watch the Quantum Fund and other Wall Street capital making huge profits in the turmoil of the European monetary system, but couldn't do anything.

Disappointed that the Westeros became more self-serving, the three managers finally decided to quit and do it alone.

What a sad story.

The swift rise of Wall Street's pride in the sky has declined rapidly. Is there anything like this that can make people "sigh with sighs"?

After the "Wall Street Journal" article was published, countless media have called Cersei Capital and even the core of the Westeros system, and the responses they received were cold ‘no comment’.

This further proves that Cersei Capital was very secretive about this decision error.

Although Simon Westero dominates the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans at the beginning of the month with a net worth of $65 billion, such a low-level mistake may mean that the Westeros system is losing the determination of the previous years. Enterprising.

Of course, it is not without media doubts.

Different from hedge capitals such as Quantum Funds, Cersei Capital is behind the entire Westeros system. Within this business empire, Melisandre and Nokia, which are rapidly expanding, are based in Europe. Many companies in the Westeros system also have large businesses in Europe.

If Cersei Capital and Quantum Fund attack the European currency this time, then, Europeans may not be able to take the pure hedge fund bosses like Soros, but it is too easy to watch the Westeros system.

Therefore, the Westeros did not agree to participate in this attack on European currencies, which is probably not a decision error.

However, this argument was quickly refuted.

Three years ago, Cersei Capital did not give up its operation in the Japanese market, and Simon Westero was almost "rejected" by the Japanese government. But now, the cooperation between the Westeros system and Japanese companies has not been affected.

Since this is the case in Japan, it should be the same in Europe.

If you can see the opportunity in advance, Simon Westero has no reason to give up this excellent arbitrage opportunity.

You know, if operated properly, Cersei Fund Management Company can easily obtain double the income equivalent to the size of the fund this time. With billions of dollars in profit before eyes, it is impossible for anyone to refuse this temptation.

After such a lot of discussion, most media still tend to this as a major mistake by the Westeros.

Many readers of newspapers and magazines also like to see stories in which the enviable ‘miracle’ suddenly loses its magic, sad and happy.

For the Westeros system, it is enough to send a message to the outside that Cersei Capital did not participate in this currency speculation. As for the media’s ‘illusion’ about the decline of Cersei Capital and even the entire Westeros system, it can to a large extent alleviate the sentiments of all parties towards the Westeros system and Simon personally.

The $65 billion net worth announced by Forbes magazine in early September has made many people envy and admired, but it has also attracted many arguments that the expansion of the Westeros system should be restricted.

There are only three fund managers who left. The reason for the other party's departure is indeed that Cersei Capital missed the European currency speculation, but of course it was not out of disappointment to the Simons as publicly disclosed.

The three of them are very clear why the Simons did this, and they also understand that there will be such an opportunity in the future. For the interests of the entire Westeros system, Cersei Capital can still only miss it. Therefore, after the two sides talked in detail, three People finally chose to leave in order to get rid of this restraint.

Although they resigned, the relationship between the three managers and Cersei Capital is still good, and they actively cooperated with the media to stage a ‘suffering drama’.

In order to avoid being seen through, Cersei Capital did not invest in the new fund established by the three, but through its own network, it quickly attracted more than 500 million US dollars of capital for the other party.

Of course, these inside stories must be strictly kept secret.

For Daenerys Entertainment, after "Desperate Housewives" had 7.36 million viewers in the first week, the ratings for the second episode rose again due to its good reputation and high topicality, with an average viewership reaching 8.39 million, which is enough Added 1 million viewers. The ratings of core audiences aged 18 to 49 also climbed to 4.6.

The USA team predicts that before the winter break, with the further expansion of the basic audience of the TV network and the continuous increase in the popularity of "Desperate Housewives", the average viewership of this series is expected to exceed the 10 million mark.

For a cable TV network, if the average viewership awareness of a TV program can reach 5 million, it is already the pillar of the viewership, breaking through 10 million, which can be said to be a viewing miracle.

In the original time and space, many years later, the AMC TV network quickly emerged with a "The Walking Dead" with a viewership of about tens of millions.

The current cable television industry is very different from more than ten years later, but the USA television network at this time and the later AMC television network have many similarities. USA TV network is facing the strong pressure of traditional public TV network. AMC needs to deal with many competitors in the same industry. Both parties can be said to have broken a **** road in the industry with a series.

Of course, the difference is that with the rise of streaming media in the cable TV industry more than a decade later, the scale of the industry has reached the ceiling and it is impossible to go further.

The cable television industry in the early 1990s was still booming.

Although it is a dedicated female television network, as long as it is carefully and reasonably operated, the USA television network still has a lot of room for development.

After the success of "Desperate Housewives", the USA team has begun to consider opening up more refined sub-channels, including plans specifically for young women under the age of 18, or urban elite white-collar workers with strong spending power.

Considering that there are still half of the shares of USA TV network owned by Paramount Communications, Simon did not agree to the request of the USA executives to start further deployment.

On the original timeline, Viacom Group will initiate the acquisition of Paramount Communications next year.

However, this time, after Daenerys Entertainment's internal evaluation, the current Viacom Group is not strong enough to complete the acquisition of Paramount Communications.

The key is Blockbuster.

Viacom in the original time and space is one of the important shareholders of Blockbuster. As a video tape chain company, just like many retail companies, Blockbuster has a huge cash flow of billions of dollars at any time. Therefore, in order to make up for the shortage of funds for the acquisition of Paramount Communications, Redstone first completely annexed Blockbuster at a nearly doubled premium of US$8 billion through share swaps and acquisitions, and then used Blockbuster to enrich itself. With cash support, the method of cash plus stocks successfully won Paramount Communications.

However, now Blockbuster, Daenerys Entertainment is the largest shareholder holding 35%, and Viacom does not participate in this company.

Not only that, the current market value of Blockbuster has reached 6.3 billion U.S. dollars. Even if Viacom still wants to acquire, Daenerys Entertainment and other shareholders have agreed to the acquisition. Without the advantages of its own shareholders, Blockbuster’s share price is obvious. Too high, let alone double the premium, even if the premium is only 50%, Viacom cannot afford it.

Because of this, Redstone's control over Viacom will be shaken after the share swap.

The economic downturn has not passed. In recent years, mergers and acquisitions and financing have been very difficult. Without the huge amount of cash support from Blockbuster, Viacom wanted to acquire Paramount and had to exchange shares. Paramount Communications is larger than Viacom, and without real benefits, it is impossible for Paramount shareholders to cede control and sell the company just to obtain another stock of uncertain future.

However, although Paramount Communications is unlikely to be acquired by Viacom again, it does not have a lot of capital to covet this company.

Simon can be sure that in the next few years, Paramount Communications will change hands.

And the buyer is likely to still be overseas capital.

The US television industry’s restrictions on overseas capital have not yet been lifted. Once this is the case, Daenerys Entertainment will be able to acquire all equity in USA Television Network after Paramount Communications is acquired.

Of course, these are things to follow.

September and October is the period when the annual four major fashion weeks are held.

This year's Milan Fashion Week is from September 21st to September 29th and lasts for nine days.

The summer season is still over, and the autumn season also opened smoothly. It coincided with the fashion week. Simon and Janet flew to Europe together. On the one hand, it was a vacation. On the other hand, there were a lot of things that Simon had to deal with.

Gucci's catwalk is scheduled for September 23.

The couple first flew to Helsinki, Finland.

The trend of GSM digital communication has been fully opened, and countries around the world have begun to deploy the second-generation digital communication technology. Nokia not only took the lead in the development of GSM technology, but was also the first company among major European manufacturers to launch GSM-format digital mobile phones. Taking advantage of this industry's wind, Nokia has developed very rapidly over the past year.

In order to win over Eastern and Nordic countries, countries such as Britain, France, Germany and Italy have also opened their markets to these countries, which also laid the foundation for Nokia's rapid expansion in Europe.