Chapter 333

Unlike sunny Los Angeles and drizzly Seattle, New York is still in the coldest season of the year.

The weather is short in winter.

Simon arrived on the east coast, arrived at his Fifth Avenue apartment from Kennedy Airport, and it was already dark.

Janet is not the only one in the apartment. Sophia fishy came from Europe yesterday.

Simon is still working, but Janet and many people around her are busy preparing for the wedding in early March.

The wedding has been confirmed to be held in Melbourne, and the guest list has been initially finalized. Johnston's family has specially prepared several charter flights for this purpose.

Sophia came to New York this time for the wedding dress. Gucci's design team started to design the wedding dress scheme after Simon and Janet's wedding date was confirmed. The housekeeper specially came to discuss some production details with Janet face to face this time.

Last night, Janet dragged him to discuss the wedding dress style. Until early in the morning, Simon still woke up early the next day.

I groped for my watch and looked at it. It's still 6:50 a.m. on the east coast.

The woman in her arms noticed Simon's action, rubbed and rubbed around him more tightly, opened her mouth in her sleep, bit him on the shoulder, and there was no movement again.

Feeling Janet's obsession, Simon gave up the idea of getting up and closed his eyes again.

Winter is really a good time to be lazy.

I woke up again, almost nine o'clock in the morning, and Janet was no longer around.

After Simon dressed and washed, he opened the curtains in his bedroom. The bleak Central Park was full of the season's unique soft sunshine, pale and powerless, and seemed to be struggling.

It's sunny, at least.

Downstairs, Janet and Sophia are just getting ready for breakfast. When they see Simon, Janet comes up and kisses the man and says, "I'm just saying I'm going to wake you up."

Simon hugged the woman to say good morning, and then said hello to Sophia. He came to the table and sat down.

Sophia brought breakfast and put some today's newspapers in Simon's hand. Then she sat down and talked about Gucci during the meal. The fashion week in February is coming soon. The housekeeper is not at leisure. She will return to Europe tomorrow.

After breakfast, Sophia rushes to Gucci's headquarters in the United States. Simon and Janet have no work arrangements today. They are as tired as Maodong and enjoy their world in the apartment.

“…… I've already asked people to prepare. On that day, in Yarra Valley Park, a maze will be built around our wedding site with flower walls. All kinds of flowers must be very beautiful... "

In a living room on the second floor of the duplex apartment, Janet holds a thick folder full of all kinds of wedding planning materials and says to Simon.

Looking at the woman's red face when talking about this, Simon said with a smile: "don't women have premarital phobia? You don't seem to react at all

Janet sidled to Simon intimately and said, "only women who doubt whether they have met the right man will have premarital phobia. I don't have it."

Simon smelled the words and gave a kiss on Janet's smooth face. He still had some ideas and put his hand around the woman.

Janet naturally began to respond.

The two entangled for a moment, and soon turned into a picture that was not suitable for children.

After a whole day in the apartment, Sophia didn't come back to disturb them at night. The next day was Monday, and she had to continue to work.

On Saturday morning, Sheila ward told Simon that Saddam Hussein's speech at the meeting of the member states of the Arab Cooperation Committee was not clear. Therefore, the cersei capital team in New York started to layout the oil futures market in advance according to this news and recent trends in European and American countries.

With the hedge fund industry booming in the past two years, cersei capital is not the only one staring at the oil futures market.

However, for Saddam's statement, many hedge funds believe that international oil prices should start to rise in the next period of time, while cersei capital is betting on the decline of oil prices.

In Simon's memory, because of Saddam Hussein's "non cooperation" attitude with the West since last year, and the fact that the Bush family is in charge of the United States, which has close ties with various oil giants, the European and American oil groups finally decided to take action against Iraq.

The first step, however, is not war, but against Iraq's increasingly vulnerable domestic economy after a decade of Iran Iraq war.

Iraq's economy is deeply dependent on oil. The best way to hit the country's economy is to drive down international oil prices.

Therefore, countries such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, which have close ties with European and American oil groups, will adopt the form of substantial increase in production to lower international oil prices in the next few months, which is also the most direct reason for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

In the original time and space, just a few months before the Kuwait war, the international crude oil price plummeted from US $19 at the beginning of 1990 to US $13, a drop of more than 30%.

After the outbreak of the Kuwait war, the international crude oil price jumped directly from the bottom of $13 to a high of $40, with an increase of more than 200%.Then, the Gulf War broke out. When most crude oil speculators thought that the international crude oil price would continue to rise, the war ended quickly with a speed of destruction. The international oil price soon fell to less than $20, which even the European and American countries that launched the war did not expect.

For more than half a year, the continuous rise and fall of international crude oil price has also made countless investors engaged in crude oil futures trading suddenly rich or bankrupt.

It can be said that if Simon didn't have the advantage of the prophet of rebirth, even if he could roughly predict the next situation, he would not dare to lay too heavy a stake in such turbulence.

Otherwise, it may only need a wrong judgment, and the original huge profits may turn into losses.

Just like the quantum fund in the original time and space, Soros was invincible in the Asian market, but because he misjudged the economic situation of Russia, he lost more than $3 billion in the next year.

What's more, cersei capital's acceptance of capital from North America is to minimize the occurrence of human variables, and at the same time, it can obtain some useful inside information through this kind of interest exchange.

Simon stayed in New York until Wednesday.

For two consecutive nights, he attended the fundraising cocktail party held by cersei capital. Cersei fund management company's funds have been in place. These two cocktail parties are mainly for Apollo management company in charge of Leon black and black rock asset management company in charge of Lawrence Fink.

Apollo management has targeted CBS bond assets that are being auctioned and cleared after they were taken over by the federal government, with the first plan to raise $1 billion. In fact, one billion US dollars is not enough. Therefore, in the next vulture investment operation, Apollo management's investment team will cooperate with other financial giants on Wall Street.

Doing so, on the one hand, can reduce the risk, on the other hand, can also eliminate the hostility of Wall Street to cersei capital, and establish cersei capital's relationship network on Wall Street.

Most of the financial giants on Wall Street are in a state of mutual competition and cooperation.

The most important reason why the once invincible company, tezon securities, went bankrupt in just a few months after the crisis is that tezon securities has no friends on Wall Street.

In the past ten years, with more than 80 billion US dollars of junk bonds issued, tezon securities has been on its own and refused to give up its huge underwriting expenses to other companies. As a result, when tezon securities fell into crisis in the second half of last year, it appealed to its peers on Wall Street for help, but none of them was willing to lend a helping hand.

Compared with Apollo management's first $1 billion funding plan, cersei capital plans to raise another $3 billion for black rock asset management company, which is equivalent to the existing funds of black rock.

The reason why there is such a difference is mainly the difference in the risks of the two companies engaged in business.

Apollo management company is responsible for the operation of leveraged buyout, equity investment and Condor investment. If it doesn't pay attention, it may suffer heavy losses. In contrast, Heiyan asset management company is engaged in the investment business of stocks, bonds and fixed income products. The risk degree is very low. Of course, the income is also very low, which needs to rely on the scale to win.

Busy, time has come to the last day of January.

Returning to Los Angeles in the afternoon, Simon spent the whole morning at Denise entertainment New York in Greenwich.

Although the annual TV program promotion season is in May, since the beginning of the year, various TV program production companies have begun to look for projects for the new year.

Denise TV, which Robert egger is in charge of, produced a total of 10 TV programs last year, including four reality shows led by Simon, three TV series taken over by new world entertainment, and three new series launched last year.

At present, Denise TV's main revenue is still "who will be a millionaire" and other four reality shows. Only one of last year's three new plays was renewed under the TV network, and the other three old plays were cut off again after last autumn due to poor ratings.

Moreover, in the four reality shows, the CBS platform broadcast "Beverly's wife" also encountered some problems.

Phenomenal reality shows are never so easy to appear. In Simon's memory, there are only a few reality shows that can reach the level of familiarity, whether in the 1990s or after the new century. "Who will be a millionaire" and "Survivor" all belong to this category, while "big brother" is slightly inferior, but there is no more popular project than these three reality shows in the past two years.

However, Beverly's wife, which belonged to the basic cable station in the original time and space, was not so lucky.

Compared with who's going to be a millionaire, survivor and big brother, Beverly's wife is at the bottom of the list.

At the beginning, CBS also launched two reality shows at the same time. Although the rating data is lower, it can barely continue, which makes CBS less dependent on Beverly's wife.

As a result, before the second season of Beverly's wife was finished, CBS tried to lower the renewal price of the third season of the reality show again.In the New York branch building, Simon listened to Robert egger's introduction to the situation in the conference room, knocked on the table for a moment, then said, "in this case, cancel the cooperation with CBS."

Robert egger was a bit surprised: "Simon, even if the offer is reduced by another 20%, we are still profitable and there is no need to cancel."

Simon glanced at the other television executives in the conference room, waved for the crowd to go out, and then said to egger, "Bob, for Beverly's wife, I was actually going to make a complete series of wives."

Robert egger nodded and said, "I know, you mentioned it before. However, Simon, it's not very realistic. The four major TV networks can't give us too much time to broadcast a whole series of reality shows. "

"So we need to find a separate platform for this series."

Robert egger also knew that cersei capital had accumulated a large amount of money overseas, and said tentatively, "Simon, are you going to buy a TV network?"

"It's not the right time," Simon said, shaking his head. "Bob, there's something I can't tell you, but if all goes well, we'll have our own TV network in the second half of the year. Although it is less than the scale of the four major public TV networks, it is more than enough to accommodate the wife series. Just by using the wife series, we can also build our own TV network into a brand-name female TV station. "

Having been in the television industry for a long time, egger soon understood what Simon said.

After sorting out the information about a series of media groups in the industry in my memory, egger tentatively said: "USA?"

Like CW, AMC and MTV networks many years later, USA belongs to the national basic cable television network of the United States.

Different from the public television network, the basic cable station is the nature of the cable station, but different from the charging cable station, the basic cable station does not charge the users directly, but obtains the revenue share from the cable TV operators, and also has part of the advertising revenue.

The current USA TV station is still jointly held by Paramount communications and MCA, accounting for 50% of the shares respectively.

After the new century, the brilliance of USA is completely covered by TV networks such as CW, AMC and MTV. Compared with AMC, which has phenomenal popular dramas such as walking dead, or CW, which has DC superhero dramas, the TV programs produced by USA seem to be poor. However, in this era, because of the joint support of paramount communications and MCA, USA is on the basis of cable TV Taichung's popularity and scale are top notch.

As Edgar guessed it, Simon didn't deny it. He nodded with a smile and said, "keep this secret."

"Of course."

Edgar agreed, but he didn't ask any more, but he couldn't help wondering whether Simon's next goal was MCA or paramount communications.

MCA seems easier.

Paramount communications, Martin Davis stayed in power until the death of the former head of the company. He was reluctant to let go.

Because of the original contract, CBS had to give up if it wanted to take back "Beverly's wife". After discussing the matter for a while, Simon handed egger a folder and said, "I took the time to see the information of the TV series that the company is looking for, and selected two of them. I remember to take them down. For the rest, you can decide for yourself. "

Edgar took Simon's folder and opened it. The first sitcom material appeared in front of him, with the name "Seinfeld" printed on the cover.

The true story of Song Fei is a sitcom with the same popularity as friends in the 1990s. The show's popularity overseas is not as high as friends, but it is very popular in North America. In the original time and space, the story of Seinfeld even set a record of over 70 million viewers when it was finally finished.

Simon saw the information about this project when he was in Los Angeles. Another purpose of his visit to New York is to urge Edgar to take this project down.

As for the other one, it's Simon's habit of mixing in sand. It doesn't matter whether he succeeds or fails, or it's best if he fails.