You must have heard the name of this city,
Gotham, Big Apple, Capital of the World, Financial Center, Trade Center, Entertainment and Cultural Center, the largest city in North America!
—New York.
Located on the Atlantic coast of the southeastern coast of New York State, it has five regions, fifty-nine districts, and an area of more than 1,200 square kilometers.
Even compared to that vast London, it is not much inferior.
From being discovered in the colonial period, through the Declaration of Independence, through the opportunity of the Great War, with the rise of the country to which it belonged as a hegemony in the world,
New York has become, without exaggeration, the most apex city in the world.
Gross domestic product exceeds one trillion U.S. dollars,
No. 1 in the world!
Economics, politics, finance, media, education, entertainment... and even the fashion industry, various factors have made it the largest metropolitan area in the world,
Let an unknown number of people come here with dreams, to this apex full of opportunities and dangers,
Seek the countless prosperity that belongs here.
And of all the 'prosperity', the most well-known and highest-ranked...
That is - 'financial transactions'.
Just as everyone who knows America knows New York, everyone who knows New York also knows a name,
That is equivalent to the nerve center of international finance, a place that is more risky than Las Vegas casinos,
wall street.
Located in the south of Manhattan, one of the five major districts of New York, it extends from Broadway to the East River, with a length of only one-third of a mile and a width of only 11 meters.
But it is such a narrow and short street that once concentrated the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, trust companies, the New York Futures Exchange,
As well as the general management offices of banks, insurance, railways, shipping and other large companies established by various large consortiums,
It has become a famous Wall Street in the world.
It's just that if you go there now, you can only see a business district, a street full of tourists, a few old skyscrapers and many open-air teahouses or cafes,
The windows on the side of the road did not have the famous names such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan, but there were only advertisements for fitness clubs.
Because apart from the few exchanges that are still there today,
As early as 20 years ago, the industries of those big consortiums left here and moved to Midtown Manhattan with convenient transportation and a wide view.
After all, narrow, crowded streets that are as illegible as cobwebs do not really meet the needs of financial institutions to expand their business.
Is Wall Street down
not at all.
It has just broken away from the real Wall Street, and has become composed of countless financial institutions and monopoly capital.
An invisible 'Wall Street' that symbolizes North American financial markets.
In offices at Rockefeller Center, the Wall Street Journal is still read,
In congressional hearings, the chairman of the Federal Reserve still cares about "the attitude of Wall Street", and on the other side of the ocean, the highest dream of entrepreneurs is still to 'finance money on Wall Street'.
'On Wall Street, even the most junior financial professionals can earn upwards of $60,000 a year...'
Investment, trust, exchange, discount, mortgage, securities trading including stocks of listed companies, and international trade and non-trade settlement, gold and silver trading, export, import,
Relying on the top economic means, trading the greatest wealth in the world,
This is the 'Wall Street',
This is the financial field!
I don't know how many people look up to them, dreaming of becoming legends like Salomon Brothers, Morgan, and Weinberg, creating the latest financial myth of this era,
From a penniless ordinary person to an incomparable wealth... .
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As the sun rises, when the planet turns around the twilight line, the sun shines from the Atlantic Ocean again, illuminating all the cities on the entire east coast of the North American continent,
New York - Midtown Manhattan,
Skyscrapers, skyscrapers, skyscrapers and skyscrapers!
In the most prosperous and central area of New York, where the skyscrapers are densest in the world, in the scene you have definitely seen from various films and photos,
A building that stands out somewhat even here.
I don’t know how many people who come and go pass by it are picking up their mobile phones to take pictures on the street, but most of them still look at it with yearning and unreachable eyes.
Because the building standing here is really a behemoth at the top of the social economy,
It's the top giants like them who ordinary people look up to for a lifetime and can't see the inner situation!
—Flower Bank!
Coordinating more than a dozen subsidiaries under the name, integrating commercial banks, investment banks, insurance, mutual funds, stock and securities trading and many other financial service businesses,
To become an all-round financial service group with the largest assets, the most profits, the highest global chain, and the most complete business categories in the world today,
The total assets exceed two trillion U.S. dollars, which is the scale of wealth held by the world's financial giants!
And at this moment in this building,
On the floor of the stock exchange among a dozen subsidiaries,
The atmosphere is tense, and in the office area where everyone is busy, a high-status man in a suit is listening to a report surrounded by several people.
Then after confirming something, he gave instructions loudly and rushed towards the upper floor quickly!
And as he got on the elevator with an anxious expression, layers of scenes passed by,
Bankers work 14 hours a day, analysts read hundreds of pages of research reports every day, traders make dozens of calls and enter hundreds of trading orders... .
Representing the so-called elite class, constantly dealing with those endless assets, those countless corporate financing,
This is what 'Wall Street' looks like,
It didn't go away, it just changed places.
And beyond these scenes, all the way up to the top floor of the building that ordinary people can't touch in their lifetime,
Finally, the man in the suit quickly pushed open the door of a large office, and reported straight to the point:
"Sir! According to the latest report, the stock price of Golden Iris has fallen by 14% below our expectation, and it is still falling!"
And in the highest room, sitting behind a big desk, he is having an emergency video conference with the higher-ups shareholding directors who actually control Huaqi Bank,
After hearing his report, the president of Huaqi Bank, Lancelot Bowen, had an already serious expression on his face.
"Don't worry, everyone, I will handle this matter properly."
Taking a deep breath, he assured the digital shareholders in the video with the utmost calmness, ended the call,
Lancelot looked at his secretary solemnly and asked:
"What's going on! Didn't I tell you to remedy it? Why didn't you stop the decline?"
Faced with the questioning of the person in charge of the group, I have seen big storms as an assistant to the president all the year round, but I was really panicked by this time.
The secretary could only bite the bullet and answer truthfully:
"We have indeed taken action, but there is something abnormal and something we don't know is continuing to ferment!"
Make this kind of non-existent answer, thinking that your career has come to an end,
But unexpectedly,
He saw the silence of the cold and serious man behind the big desk who seemed to understand something about his answer,
Then he just frowned and asked solemnly:
"The two gentlemen haven't arrived yet?"