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Now, since this young man is willing to intervene, and she was recommended by him to join MGM, then, unless MGM changes hands, she should not be swept out in the short term.After all, apart from her, it is impossible for Australians to find a second suitable company manager in Hollywood for a while.

I just don't know if Westeros will buy MGM directly.

Thinking of some recent news and rumors in Hollywood, Shirley Lansing had some vague expectations.

Amy Pascal's annual salary this year may exceed 1 million US dollars, which is something that most Hollywood executives dare not even dream of.

As a woman who can climb to the top of the Hollywood pyramid step by step, Shirley Lansing naturally has her own ambitions and aspirations.Lansing also believes that if Westerloken takes over MGM, the company will soon be able to break free from its years of slump.

The meeting on asset reorganization and management adjustment of Qintex Group after the departure of Christopher Scars lasted for a whole day. Shirley Lansing was also considered as a senior executive of the Qintex system, so she participated in the whole process.She also knew that the purpose of Simon's attendance at this meeting had nothing to do with MGM, but for Seventh TV Network held by Qintex Group.

Specifically, the Johnston family hoped to buy Seventh Network.

After operating in the capital market for the past two years, the Johnston family also holds a large amount of cash.

According to Raymond Johnston's mind, he must take the lead in using this fund to expand the family's business in mining and transportation.Simon also knows that Australia's mining resources will undergo large-scale integration in the 90s, and eventually a world-class mining giant such as BHP Billiton will emerge.

In such a large-scale industrial integration, the Johnston Holding Group, whose overall market value controlled by the Johnston family is only about 50 billion US dollars, is difficult to affect the overall situation.

Unless Johnston Holdings can quickly transform itself into a behemoth, it will be very difficult for small and medium-sized mining companies to survive in the face of a [-] billion-dollar industry oligarch like BHP Billiton, who will either be merged or squeezed out.

BHP and Billiton are still two companies now, and their market value is far from as scary as it was later.

If some means are used and the funds are sufficient, it is not impossible for the Johnston family to make a big fortune with a small amount.It's just that Simon doesn't know much about this aspect. The opinion he can give for the time being is to quickly accumulate his own strength through diversified development.

Moreover, compared to the mining industry, which needs to accumulate slowly, the value-added space in the media field in the 90s is very large. With the resources of Simon in Hollywood and the deep-rooted resources and contacts of the Johnston family in Australia, it is really a shame not to develop business in this area. Some waste.

Australia now, like North America, has many restrictions on overseas capital investment in its media industry. Similarly, these restrictions will be gradually relaxed in the next few years.

Simon's long-term plan is to buy out Johnston Holdings in one go outside the core mining field after the Australian media industry is opened to overseas investors. peripheral business.

In this way, the Westeros system realizes the expansion of Australia, and the Johnston family can also have enough capital, and with the help of some financial leverage, it is enough to annex an industrial giant such as BHP or Billiton in a small way, and carry out Continue to expand.

In order to help the Johnston family accumulate more capital, not just the media, Simon is still discussing with the old man to get involved in Australia's telecommunications industry these days.

The Australian telecommunications industry has been a state monopoly before, and it is also discussing opening up recently.

Moreover, the Westeros system can just provide enough technical support for the two budding telecommunications industry branches of mobile communications and the Internet. If these industries can be listed in North America in the next few years, taking advantage of the wave of new technologies Dongfeng can also cash out large sums of money.

In general, not only buying land in Tasmania, Simon is indeed planning to operate Australia as his own overseas base.

If the plans conceived by Simon can be realized one by one, Johnston Holdings will eventually develop into a behemoth like BHP Billiton, coupled with the layout of other industries.Then, by then, the Australian economy will basically be under the control of the Simon and Johnston families.

Of course, these things cannot be accomplished overnight.

In the next ten years, it will be very rare to be able to complete the initial layout.

However, the last thing Simon lacked happened to be time.

If it takes ten or twenty years to control a country and achieve the economic status of Samsung Group in South Korea, it is totally worthwhile.

After a one-day meeting, Qintex Group shareholders and creditors finally reached an agreement with the Johnston family to sell Seventh TV Network to Johnston Holding Group for US$7 million in cash in order to repay its matured debts and maintain business operations.

At the same time, as a potential exchange of benefits, Hollywood, Daenerys Entertainment will take out two of the original 10 film plans to cooperate with MGM to help MGM recover.

Until night fell, the meeting that lasted all day finally came to an end.

Shirley Lansing finally stepped forward to stop Simon when everyone left the meeting room, and invited, "Simon, do you want to have dinner together tonight?"

Simon nodded, thought for a while, and said to Veronica Johnston, who came to participate in the negotiation with him today: "Let's go together."

Veronica froze for a moment, nodded slightly, and hummed.

Having been introduced during the day, Shirley Lansing knew that this icy-looking woman was Janet Johnston's little aunt.However, due to a woman's innate keen intuition, Shirley Lansing clearly felt that there seemed to be some kind of strangeness between Westeros and this woman.

However, this idea occasionally flashed in her mind, and Shirley Lansing no longer probed deeper.

After all, this is someone else's business.

Thinking too much, and angering this young man is completely worth the candle to her.

Randomly chose a good restaurant near the headquarters of Qintex Group. The three of them sat down and ordered food. Simon asked first, "How is the copyright issue of 007 handled?"

"It's still under discussion. I plan to buy the copyright of Spectre from Kevin McCrory to completely resolve this dispute. McCrory asked for $500 million, which is really a bit high. As for the script, according to your original proposal , the company has completed the first draft of "Golden Eye", Simon, would you like to take a look?"

"I'm going back to Melbourne later. After you return to Los Angeles, let's send the script to Malibu first," Simon said, and then said: "In addition, the leading actor also needs to be replaced. Timothy Dalton is really not good enough." Suitable for the role of 007. You can contact Pierce Brosnan to see if he is interested."

Shirley Lansing thought of Pierce Brosnan, who entered Hollywood's vision with "Pretty Woman" in the first half of the year, and said: "Brosnan seems very suitable, but he should not take this role lightly."

If Brosnan was just a second- and third-tier actor, he would certainly be interested in 007.

However, now that they have already entered the top line, few stars would be willing to lock themselves in the shackles of the image of 007.Although 007 will indeed bring a lot of fame, once participating in the role, it is often difficult for actors to get rid of the influence of this role on themselves.

Since the birth of the 60s, so many generations of 007, only Sean Connery's career development is not bad, and this is the result of C's full support.

Simon naturally understood this truth, and just said: "You get in touch with him, and if you can't, then change to someone else. The most important thing is to sign a few more film contracts."

Shirley Lansing nodded to mark it down, hesitated a little, but still couldn't hold back, and asked, "Simon, why don't you just buy MGM?"

Simon expected that Shirley Lansing would be so puzzled, but he didn't answer, but turned the topic to the cooperation of the two films.

If there is no planned MCA acquisition plan, Simon will definitely buy MGM without hesitation, or even if he only takes over a part of the shares from Qintex Group, he believes that Qintex will be extremely happy.

However, no matter how poor MGM is, it is still one of the top seven.

In the early 90s, the anti-monopoly supervision of the media industry in the United States was still very strict.

Daenerys Entertainment is already strong enough now. If MGM is controlled again, the MCA acquisition will definitely encounter anti-monopoly investigations.

Simon also considered having the Johnston family buy a portion of MGM.

However, in the eyes of the U.S. regulatory authorities, it is actually not much different from Simon personally controlling MGM.In the federal anti-monopoly provisions, even if you do not directly hold shares, colluding to monopolize is also a monopoly.

After dinner, Shirley Lansing was sent to the hotel, and Simon and Veronica rushed to the airport together. It only took more than an hour to fly from Brisbane to Melbourne, and Simon did not plan to stay here.

Veronica will still come over tomorrow, but when Simon returns to Melbourne, she also silently follows Simon back to Melbourne.

The plane arrived in Melbourne and returned to Johnston's mansion. It was already past nine o'clock in the evening.

Anthony Johnston was already waiting for Simon. As soon as the two arrived home, Anthony handed him a document he had just received.

In recent days, although many people still firmly believe that Iraq will not move to Kuwait in the end, the situation in the Middle East has become more and more imminent.

Simon read the information in his hand, and the last worry in his heart disappeared.

According to information from New York, Saddam Hussein suddenly met with the US ambassador to Baghdad, April Glaspie, this afternoon local time in Baghdad. The content of the discussion between the two was not made public, but Simon obtained However, the content of this meeting is clearly given in the materials.

The U.S. ambassador to Baghdad, Glaspie, promised Saddam that Washington would not intervene in the dispute between Iraq and Kuwait.

According to the information in Simon's memory, he is very clear that such a promise is nothing but fart, and the fundamental purpose of the Bush administration is just to drag Iraq into the quagmire of war again.

Yet Saddam apparently believed it.

Now that the overall situation has been decided, Simon quietly flew back to North America the next day, intending to personally witness the many waves caused by this war.

The last few days of July passed quietly.

So until August 8, the explosive news spread all over the world.

In the early hours of August 8, local time in Iraq, the Iraqi Republican Guard suddenly crossed the Iraqi-Korean border and crushed towards Kuwait City.

This war, which gathered countless people to conspire and plot for profit, officially broke out.

Chapter 359 Crazy Earnings (Revised)

As of January 1990, the proven oil reserves in the Gulf region accounted for 1% of the world's total oil reserves, while providing 65% of the world's daily oil demand.Among them are only Iraq and Kuwait, even after decades of exploitation, the oil reserves are still ranked among the top ten in the world.

It is conceivable that the turmoil in the Gulf region will have a strong impact on the world's crude oil supply.

When the news of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait came out on August 8, the international crude oil price began to soar rapidly. As of the close on Friday, August 2, the international crude oil price had soared to US$8 per barrel, an increase of 3% compared to before the outbreak of the war. %.

And, this is just the beginning.

In Simon's memory, the Kuwait war led to the highest international crude oil price rushing to 41.07 US dollars.

Because of the influence of Simon, a big butterfly, many things are no longer so certain. However, Simon believes that this time the international crude oil price will hit the high of 40 US dollars. The problem is still not too big.

new York.

Cersei Capital headquarters in Midtown Manhattan.

Although it is Sunday, the headquarters of Cersei Capital is still full of people today.

Except for the loss of some profits due to the untimely liquidation of short positions in the last week before the outbreak of the war, the layout of Cersei Fund Management Company in various types of crude oil futures contracts basically met expectations.

As of the outbreak of the war on August 8, Cersei Fund Management Co., Ltd. has established various types of crude oil futures such as mainstream Brent crude oil futures and WTI crude oil futures, as well as surrounding light diesel futures, unleaded gasoline futures, and high-sulfur fuel oil futures. Huge long contracts totaling $2 billion.

Cersei Capital has been building positions since the end of June, and the opening price based on the international crude oil price ranges from a minimum of 6 US dollars to 13 US dollars the day before the war broke out.

Starting next week, Cersei Capital will gradually liquidate its long contracts.

In fact, this matter has been going on since the day the war broke out.

In fact, it is also because I have to take the initiative to do so.

Simon would like to wait until the crude oil price is close to or reaches $40 before starting to liquidate, but this is simply not realistic.

As we all know, futures trading is a zero-sum game. If someone makes money, someone must lose money, and the profit and loss are equal.

For example, Cersei Capital itself, if it presses the wrong direction this time and establishes a crude oil futures short position of up to 250 billion US dollars, then once the war breaks out, the international crude oil price will skyrocket from 20 US dollars before the war to a maximum of 40 US dollars, an increase of 100%, according to For the futures contract, Cersei Capital theoretically has to pay the other party a huge sum of 250 billion U.S. dollars.

However, Cersei has less than $60 billion in her capital account.

If the bulls insist on refusing to close their positions within the range that Cersei Capital can lose, Cersei Capital can only default.

Defaults in the futures trading process are very rare, but not without exception, such as the sharp fluctuations in crude oil prices caused by this sudden war.

Perhaps before the outbreak of the war, some futures speculators could continue to replenish margins in the hope of just in case, but after the outbreak of the war, their hopes were shattered, and many futures speculators simply chose to give up. Immediately breached the contract that day.

However, the default of the speculators does not mean the default of the futures contract.

Because there are double guarantees of futures brokers and futures exchanges.

When futures speculators account funds are not enough to make up for the losses, as the party guaranteeing the transaction, the futures brokerage will contribute to make up the difference to ensure the transaction.

When the funds of the futures brokers cannot guarantee the completion of the transaction, the futures exchange will use its own reserve funds to subsidize.

In the worst case, in order to prevent the futures trading system from collapsing, the national level will also participate in the rescue.

In the stock market crash in 1987, the S&P 500 index futures launched the rescue measures at the national level of the United States because of the huge fluctuations on Black Monday. On the night of October 10, after the direct intervention of the Federal Department of the Treasury, the major banks in the United States were able to provide huge amounts of funds to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to avoid defaults in futures trading.

Because of the sudden outbreak of the Kuwait war, this time, crude oil futures trading also touched the exchange level.

This also means that if there is a $50 billion bet against $50 billion, the winning party will not only get the $50 billion at the speculator level, but also at the two levels of futures brokers and futures exchanges to ensure contract delivery And subsidized large sums of money.

The conference room at Cersei Capital headquarters.

At the end of the day's meeting, it was already evening, and the summer sunset broke into this office building with an excellent view through the gaps of Manhattan high-rise buildings.

After dismissing everyone else, Janet got up and sat in Simon's arms, humming to show that she was tired.

Simon helped her knead and relax with a smile, and said, "After this time, probably many futures brokers will close their doors directly?"

Since this big market has spread to the exchange level, intermediary brokers are naturally not immune, and often need to fill in a large amount of funds to ensure contract delivery.Relatively speaking, the profits of the bulls will not feed back too much to the brokers, and they can only get a commission they deserve.

"There are probably hundreds of them," Janet said lazily, squinting her eyes, "Except for large brokers supported by parent companies such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan, and Citigroup, many small and medium-sized independent brokers are basically going to close their doors. "

Few speculators can directly cooperate with futures exchanges, and usually require futures brokers to provide guarantees.

There are many types of futures brokers, and the larger ones are generally affiliated with the futures brokerage departments of large investment banks.However, in North America and around the world, there are countless small and medium-sized futures brokers in every country and city.

In Simon's memory, because of this big market, countless futures brokers around the world have declared bankruptcy, and the entire industry will be in a slump for many years to come.

Moreover, this incident also triggered another consequence, the sharp shrinkage of crude oil futures trading.

For a long time to come, there will not be many short positions in the market at all, so Cersei Capital will not be able to build large-scale positions, and can only turn its attention to other areas.

With the outbreak of the war, stock markets around the world fell sharply.

8月2日和8月3日两天，标普500指数就从371点高位跌落到周五收盘时的356点，随后直到海湾战争爆发之前，标普500指数很可能滑落至300点左右。当初为了专注原油期货市场，瑟曦资本并没有分心建立标普500指数期货空头。

Entering the market now, it is also impossible to do much.

According to the plan, Cersei Fund Management Company will complete liquidation next week. However, due to the downturn in the futures trading market, although the capital reserves have increased significantly, it is difficult to conduct large transactions afterwards.

The weekend passed in a blink of an eye and entering the trading day, crude oil prices continued to soar.

The situation in the Gulf also continued to be turbulent.

On August 8, the Bush administration officially approved Operation Desert Shield, and federal troops officially entered Saudi Arabia to defend against possible Iraqi invasion.

However, when the 'Desert Shield' plan was implemented, anti-war waves immediately erupted in the United States.Both the media and the public are very worried that the Bush administration may drag this country into another protracted 'Vietnam War'.

The direct confrontation between federal troops and Iraqi forces in Saudi Arabia also means that the original promise of the United States not to intervene in the dispute between Iraq and Kuwait has become empty talk.