Just as they were talking, the twins came in one after the other, one holding a stack of newspapers and putting them on the dining table outside the restaurant, while the other handed the cordless phone to Eric: "Master, Mr. Hansen's phone number .”
Eric ignored Aniston's strange expression after hearing the twins' name, pointed to the fried eggs in the pan and gave Natasha the place, put the microphone by his ear and walked out of the kitchen.
Chris called Eric early in the morning. It turned out that just yesterday, November 20, after raging in Southeast Asian countries, international hot money finally pointed the finger at the most lucrative piece of Southeast Asia except Japan. Fat Korean.
Several major foreign exchange markets just dumped the Korean won on the first day, causing the Korean won to depreciate by 3.1%.
South Korea's local time is 17 hours earlier than the west coast of the United States. Although it is more than 8:00 am on the 21st in Los Angeles, it is already 1:00 am on the 22nd in South Korea. When Chris called Eric, the second day that South Korea was attacked by international hot money had passed. Although the Bank of Korea began to organize a counterattack, the exchange rate of the Korean won fell by 6.5% uncontrollably in two days.
After the delivery of the foreign exchange short contracts for Thai baht and Indonesian rupiah, Eric did not let Chris ignore some other currency targets in Southeast Asia, and put all the 300 million US dollars of funds left in Southeast Asia on the Korean won.
Although the outbreak of the Southeast Asian economic crisis has raised the vigilance of all Asian countries, the accumulated short position of Korean won still exceeds 1.1 billion US dollars after a few months of layout and a principal of 300 million US dollars. It can be said that this is also the last piece of fat that Firefly can get in this Southeast Asian economic crisis.
After chatting with Chris for a while, Eric returned to the restaurant, sat down at the dining table, and flipped through today's newspapers to check for news related to the Korean won.
In two days, the exchange rate of Korean won against the US dollar fell from the initial 957:1 to 1019:1.
However, Eric remembers that the exchange rate of South Korean won against the US dollar was lower than 1700:1 at the lowest point in the original time and space, and the depreciation rate exceeded 70%. From this point of view, it is only the beginning.
If you can accurately capture the lowest point of the Korean won's depreciation and complete the delivery of the Korean won short contract in hand, the short contract worth 1.1 billion US dollars, excluding the principal, the Korean won lending interest and various other expenses, the profit that Firefly can obtain may still be as high as $400 million. Of course, this can only be regarded as the best prediction. In the face of the ever-changing foreign exchange market, it is difficult to maximize the benefits in actual operation. Eric is very satisfied with being able to double the 300 million US dollars in the end.
Feeling that breakfast was placed in front of him, Eric closed a newspaper in his hand and planned to eat breakfast first. When he looked up, Aniston, who was sitting on the other side, looked curiously at Natasha who had just walked away from him.
Eric smiled and asked, "What's wrong?"
Aniston quickly withdrew her gaze, shook her head and said, "No, it's nothing."
Drew, who was sitting opposite Aniston, looked at the twins sitting together on the other side of the dining table, and said with a smile: "They are also Eric's women."
Aniston felt the provocation in the girl's tone, raised her eyebrows immediately, and countered: "Much prettier than you."
Eric raised his head and glanced at the two women in warning: "Hey, what did I just say?"
"I didn't intend to quarrel. I also wanted to introduce Natasha and... Natasha to Jane," the girl immediately argued.
The little girl also immediately said: "I plan not to say a word to you again today, this is the last sentence."
Eric also remembered that Aniston didn't know the twins yet. He looked at the two identical girls opposite him, and was about to introduce them to the chick when he noticed that there was a silver necklace around the necks of the twins. The two necklace pendants One for the letter 'N' and one for the subtitle 'E'.
After looking at it for a while, Eric asked: "The necklace is very beautiful, the two pendants should be your initials, right?"
Natasha, wearing the caption 'N' necklace, nodded and said: "Yes, master, this is a birthday present from Ms Pakula, she said it will make it easier to tell us sisters apart."
"Oh, I didn't notice this, sorry, remind me next birthday, and give you a gift too. However, it looks much better now, you are sister, Natasha, then she It's the younger sister, Eve, um, Eve Gornia?"
"Master, you can just call me Eve," the girl with the subtitle 'E' said, her accent and tone were obviously different from her sister's, Eric realized that it was probably her sister who spoke most of the time before, He couldn't tell the two girls apart by their accents.
Smiling and nodding, Eric pointed to Aniston and said, "This is Jane, you must know each other, Jane, these are Natasha and Eve."
Aniston has been secretly paying attention to the things around Eric in the past few years, and naturally knows the twins who often appear beside Drew. However, although Aniston didn't deal with the girl, Aniston greeted the twins very politely, but the curiosity in his eyes remained.
Today is November 21st. After breakfast, Eric discussed with the two girls about spending Thanksgiving together in the next few days before rushing to work in Playa Vista.
With its wonderful imagination and warm theme, "Monsters, Inc" has almost won unanimous praise from film critics after its release.
Although there is no shortage of sour media claims that "Monsters, Inc." has completely lost the style of Disney animation and is just another Pixar work, but this does not prevent "Monsters, Inc." from raking in a box office of 62.57 million US dollars in three days in the first weekend. fact.
The release of the box office data not only shattered the illusions in many people's hearts, but also made the entire firefly rejoice. Because the success of "Monsters, Inc." indicates that Firefly Group will have two studios that can produce excellent 3D animation films, or, if you count nearly half of the equity of Blue Sky Studios, this number should be two and a half.
In the next few years, Firefly will produce 3D animation films at an average frequency of one per year, which is definitely something that any Hollywood film company can only dream of.
Perhaps stimulated by the success of "Monsters, Inc.," in the following days, Paramount Pictures CEO Shirley Lansing also said in an interview that Paramount Animation will also begin to test the waters of 3D animation production.
The Hollywood animation film market is far from saturated, and Eric is not worried about the threat from Paramount, not to mention whether Paramount Animation can really succeed under the obstruction of a group of hand-painted animators who want to maintain their industry status. The complete 3D transformation. Even if they succeed, Viacom is destined to be unable to compare with Firefly Group in the development of derivative interest chains such as peripheral products and theme parks.
In the next few days, spending Thanksgiving with Drew and Aniston, Eric rushed to New York on the day of the fourth Victoria's Secret Fashion Show on the 27th.
He didn't come here specifically for the Victoria's Secret show, but after several date adjustments, Amazon's IPO time was finally determined on December 1st.
Since the second quarter of this year, due to the huge attention brought by the hunger marketing strategy of Fireflyer players, Amazon’s performance has been rising all the way, and its quarterly turnover has risen from 87 million US dollars in the first quarter of this year to 310 million in the third quarter. In U.S. dollars, Wall Street expects Amazon’s operating income to exceed $400 million in its final quarter and close to $900 million for the full year.
Although due to the continuous high investment strategy, Amazon's financial statement this year is destined to be a loss.
However, this does not prevent Wall Street from being optimistic about this fast-rising e-commerce website.
After several months of negotiations, Jeff Bezos and Morgan Stanley, responsible for Amazon's IPO, finally decided to set Amazon's valuation at $4.5 billion, issue 10% of new shares, and plan to raise $450 million.
In fact, Firefly Investment can easily raise 450 million US dollars of funds. However, everyone also understands that Amazon’s listing, except that Jeff Bezos does not want to continue to sell shares to Firefly in order to avoid losing control, is still for listing. After that, capital operations such as mergers and acquisitions can be carried out more conveniently.
As the most turbulent period of the Southeast Asian financial crisis gradually passed, a large amount of hot money began to flow back from Southeast Asian countries, and the U.S. stock market, which had experienced fluctuations for several months, began to rise again without any signs of decline. Therefore, almost all media are very optimistic about Amazon's listing operation, and some people have even set their sights on Yahoo, the most important Internet company in the Firefly system. (To be continued.)