Manhattan Reborn 1978

Evening~

Northwest of Houston, eastern suburbs of the small city of Hempstead.

yard.

As soon as Old David got out of the car, he saw his family waiting in the yard, all holding a lit "fairy stick" and singing happy birthday~

"HAPPYBIRTHDAYTOYOU~"

"HAPPYBIRTHDAYTOYOU!"

"HAPPYBIRTHDAYTOYOU..."

"Uh..." Old David had an expression of surprise and surprise on his face, which made his wife Sera feel as if all the busyness and exhaustion were worth it.

Loisa, the youngest "braces girl", held a birthday hat carefully made by herself, helped old David put it on, and kissed him sweetly: "Happy birthday, daddy!"

"...Thank you, my dear!" Old David held her whole body in his arms and said softly with a smile.

Salonia, the introverted sister, also "bravely" walked behind her sister at this time, gave old David a birthday wreath she made, and said loudly.

"Happy birthday, Dad!"

"Okay!" Old David did not let go of Loisa, but hugged Salonia with his other arm, his face full of excitement and gratitude.

David put his arm around Sierra's mother's shoulders, walked up to the "father and daughter", waved a few "fairy wands" fireworks in his hands, and shouted.

"Hey~ Dad, you are partial!"

"I can hardly remember the last time you hugged me...!"

"Hahaha~"

Old David smiled and let go of the sisters, walked to his son and opened his arms~

David also hugged his father tightly, and after feeling "father's love like a mountain" again, he gave up his position to his mother, Sierra.

David Sr. and his wife Sierra are not very good at expressing their emotions.

They looked at each other quietly, as if all their emotions and communication were hidden in each other's eyes.

The affectionate hug only lasted a few seconds.

Mother Sierra took her husband’s arm and whispered a few words in his ear.

Lilith, Laura, Elena, Toby, Chasida, Odis Parker, Mr. Longhorn, Lawrence, Cohen, Jackal, One-Eyed Andres, and Wen had been "hiding" in the house just now. Leslie and Livlin, who came here specially to "join in the fun", as well as old Cui En and Mary Sue's father and daughter, who have been "accompanying" old David to have "fun" in recent days. .

Everyone clapped and laughed, and sent their best wishes to the "birthday boy" David~

. . .

ten minutes later.

Salonia and Sierra's mother placed the elaborate birthday cake on the dining room table. Old David hugged his son and little daughter Loisa and blew it together~

Old David's birthday buffet dinner has begun.

Laura pulled Lilith up to old David and was the first to give her birthday gift.

David saw her eagerness to "offer the treasure" and shouted: "Hey~ We have agreed to give dad a surprise later!"

"Why are you... again?"

"Hahaha~ Who made an agreement with you? I didn't!"

"Uncle Coleman, this is a gift I specially selected for you. I hope you like it~"

"Okay~Thank you!" Old David ignored his son's voice, took the gift box, opened it and took a look.

"A razor?" David approached his father with a curious face. After seeing the gift, he curled his lips and said something silently to Lilith.

Lilith leaned her head and glanced at the packaging box in old David's hand, shrugged to David and said that she didn't know Laura would choose it as a gift. .

"Ok!"

David saw everyone taking out the birthday gifts he had prepared after seeing Laura "taking the lead". He immediately waved to the one-eyed Andres, took a long gift box, and stuffed it into his father.

"Dad, please take it apart and take a look!"

"Okay!" Old David opened the package happily and saw a wooden gun case inside.

He opened the cover of the gun case and found a Winchester M1894 (Winchester Model 1894) lever rifle "lying" quietly inside. (Win94 for short.)

"Oh! It's so beautiful!" Old Cui En was obviously very familiar with it. He glanced at Old David with a hint of envy and joked.

"We will go hunting wolves and pumas in a few days, you must take it with you!"

"Okay~" Old David laughed and picked up Win94, skillfully moved the lever, checked the trigger, winked at his son and smiled.

"You still know the gift I want most!"

"Hahaha~" David shrugged very proudly, smiled and hugged his mother's shoulders and took two steps back, leaving space for everyone who was giving gifts.

. . .

The lively and joyful time of opening gift boxes came to an end quickly.

Thanks to the help of the maids Chasida, Salonia and Loisa, the gifts were roughly divided into several piles. .

The gift from One-Eyed Andres was a very fine old silver gasoline lighter.

The gifts from Odis Parker and Mr. Longhorn were a pocket watch and a bottle of good wine respectively.

The gift given by Cohen, Lawrence and Jackal is the standard three-piece set of cowboys: leather boots + cowboy hat + denim jacket. .

The gift that Leslie and Livlin jointly sent was the latest motorcycle launched by Harley Company, which could only be delivered tomorrow morning.

David looked at the pile of gifts and couldn't help but imagine the scene of his father, David, dressed neatly, riding on a big Harley with Win94 on his back and flying past in front of him ~

Emm. .

feel good!

. . .

Wine, food, friends, and birthday dinners all add up, and of course music is indispensable!

David put the last piece of small cake in front of him into his mouth, asked Lawrence and others to help, moved the furniture in the center of the living room, waved to Elena and smiled.

"Music, sound!"

"Let's get moving, friends!"

"Woohoo ~ Hahaha!" Laura, who loved liveliness but rarely showed it, yelled and ran to "DJ" Elena, and found a tape of her own among a lot of new and old records and tapes. A popular song that I have recently started to like is played.

"Oh-oh-oh-oh..."

"Oh-oh-oh-oh~"

"Everybody waskung-fufighting." (Everyone is a kung fu master)

"Thosekickswerefastaslightning."

"Infactitwasalittlebitfrightning~" (Although this is a bit thrilling)

"But they fought with expert timing!" (They all mastered the best timing during the fight)

(The song Carl Douglas sang in 74 is called "Kung Fu Fighting". It is a dynamic dance music created by combining Kung Fu and Disco dance music, two popular elements that have become popular in mainstream Western countries.)

"This is..?!"

David looked at Laura in surprise, who was making various movements on her hands, and yelled.

"Hey! Are you challenging me?"

Laura learned the classic moves seen in Bruce Lee's movies, stepping on the spot with only her toes, raising an index finger to David, pretending to be ready to attack, and said with a contemptuous expression: "Here you go. !”

"Haha~" When David saw this scene, he suddenly came up with countless prank ideas.

He clenched his fists and raised his chin, imitating one of Bruce Lee's most classic moves, and counterattacked with a sneer on his lips.

"Why are you forcing me...!!"

"Hahaha~"

Everyone saw David and Laura, both of whom were very into the show, posing their respective positions during the song "KungFuFighting", but no one took the initiative to step forward. .

Watching the fun, Livlin encouraged her without fear of getting into trouble: "Hey, David, are you a man?"

"Come on!"

"Hahaha~" Everyone was amused by Livlin.

"..." Leslie was completely speechless by these two "astonishing words" from her girlfriend. .

The happy dance at the birthday dinner started with everyone's joy and laughter.

Old David and his wife Sierra were pulled down to the center of the living room by their son David, waving their arms and twisting their bodies randomly to the dynamic music, making the atmosphere of the family dance even more lively~

Old Cui En stood beside Lawrence, glanced at him, and whispered: "Go ahead~"

"..." Lawrence put down his wine glass slightly nervously, walked hesitantly to Old Cui En's daughter Mary Sue, and invited her.

"Together?"

Mary Sue smiled and put down the dessert plate, glanced at the people laughing and laughing on the "dance floor", shrugged and said, "Why not?"

The other side~

After Odis Parker was "named" by David several times, he handed the wine glass in his hand to Mr. Longhorn: "Wait a minute, don't forget to pick up Bill Gutfreund at the airport."

"Okay!" Mr. Tianniu walked into the restaurant with a cup, looked at Toby Olga who was hesitating whether to start "cooking", and couldn't help but ask with a smile.

"lose weight?"

"Um.."

“It’s useless to lose weight if you don’t eat~”

"You should increase your exercise and combine it with dieting to lose weight, and the effect will be better!"

Toby tilted his head and looked at Mr. Longhorn for a while, then said with an annoyed smile: "But I can't help but want to eat..."

"Hahaha~" Mr. Tianniu felt that he was "defeated" by her. He shook his head and walked into the kitchen to find the maid Chasida and placed the fruit platter in front of Toby.

"You can only eat less fruit and then dance hard."

"Oh..." Toby nodded, took a small fork and put a piece of apple into his mouth. He looked at the boss David who was "twirling and dancing" around Lilith and Laura. He felt that the apple in his mouth was not as good as anything else. The sweetness of the cake is alluring. .

----

new York.

night~

Manhattan, Wall Street.

Stanley fourth floor.

Sam Rogers got out of the elevator and walked to his office.

On the way, he was surprised to see that there were still people in the newly established investment risk management department working overtime and not going home.

"Leon?"

"..it's me!"

"Little Mare" Leon Hoffman heard a familiar voice calling him and quickly "jumped" out to answer.

Sam put the keys back in his pocket, walked up to his friend Leon and asked, "It's so late, what are you busy with?"

Leon quickly picked up some materials he had compiled and explained: "I am looking at the trading data of the stock market and futures market last week."

"Oh?"

Sam took the information and looked at it for a few times, then asked, "Anything gained?"

"Have!"

Leon found a piece of information on his messy desk and said: "Judging from the public data provided by major exchanges last month and the transaction data we collected through multiple channels."

"In the past five weeks, approximately more than 20 billion and 16 billion yuan have flowed out of the New York stock market and commodity futures market~"

“In the commodity futures market, the commodities with the largest capital outflows are cotton, wheat, rubber, etc.”

"Most of the outflows went to the Chicago Board of Trade to purchase National Mortgage Bond futures contracts (interest rate futures contracts) and long-term Treasury bond futures contracts."

"The remaining small part basically flowed out of the stock market today and entered the foreign exchange futures market of the Chicago Exchange."

Sam frowned, after reading the data in his hand, he thought for a while and asked: "What did the funds that entered the foreign exchange futures market buy today?"

"JPY!"

"They are all shorting the yen..."

"Depreciation?"

Sam held up the information in his hand, motioned for Leon to put it away, and said, "Today, the boss asked Maggie to write a research report and send it to the New York Fed."

"The main content of that report is the impact of the Fed's interest rate hikes on the foreign exchange market and curbing domestic inflation."

Leon looked down at the data in his hand, and suddenly his eyes widened: "Do they want... to continue to raise interest rates?"

"Ok!"

Sam tapped his fingers on the desk, thinking quickly in his mind and said: "One of the most important impacts of raising interest rates is to shrink the circulation of the rice dollar market."

“When the rice dollar appreciates, the currencies of other countries will depreciate accordingly~”

"The faster the dollar appreciates, the lower the domestic inflation rate and prices will be. The trade deficit will continue to increase, the fiscal deficit of the Congress will also increase, and the number of companies that rely on international export trade will go bankrupt."

"So if the Federal Reserve announces that it will continue to raise interest rates in a few days, the entire Wall Street will take notice and withdraw funds from the stock market and invest them in the foreign exchange market, interest rate futures market and long-term Treasury bond futures market!"

"These are some of the important contents mentioned in the report by the boss..."

"Just know it yourself, don't tell anyone, okay?"

"Understood!" Leon nodded with a somewhat rapid breathing, trying hard to suppress the excitement in his heart, and asked with clearer and clearer thoughts.

"Then we also...?"

"No!"

"We will not invest in interest rate futures and long-term Treasury futures for the time being."

Sam raised two fingers to Leon and said with a gleaming smile: "The more opponents there are, the more they make~"

"If they want to enter the market and go short on the news of interest rate hikes, they will definitely first release some misleading signals in long-term Treasury futures to paralyze the judgment of bulls, and then quietly establish short positions."

"Forehead.."

Leon blinked quickly and continued with a smile: "For a fool who can't see the trend, the more the better, right?"

"Hahaha~"

Sam laughed and waved his hands, turned around and walked to his office and said, "You clean up, I will take you back later."

"Tomorrow, you will set off early in the morning to go to the Chicago Stock Exchange and help me keep an eye on its latest changes!"

"Ok!"

Leon, who was "alone", clenched his fists with enthusiasm and was full of confidence in his trip to Chicago this time.

----

Northwest of Houston, eastern suburbs of the small city of Hempstead.

night.

The soothing and melodious music still echoes in the living room~

The birthday party is temporarily over.

David, who felt a little tired, took Bill Gutfreund, who had just arrived from Europe, to introduce his family and friends to him.

After some chat.

David led Bill into the kitchen, "filled" his plate with various delicacies, and asked with a smile.

"Let's talk~"

"You are rushing here in such a hurry. You definitely don't want to attend my father's birthday party, right?"

"Haha~" Bill Gutfreund, who has a casual and free-spirited personality, directly grabbed a piece of small cake and put it into his mouth with clean hands, nodding and smiling directly.

"That's right 1"

"I came here this time because of Carnes and Little Peter."

"them?"

"What happened to them?"

"..." Bill replied vaguely, chewing the cake in his mouth hard.

"The two of them used the spot gold and crude oil they bought to borrow a large amount of money from the bank as collateral, and then bought a lot of gold and crude oil spot."

"But now those banks are clamoring to break the contract, insisting that they both close their positions and repay the money immediately, otherwise..."

"What?" David resisted the urge to curse, glanced in the direction of the living room, and asked in a low voice.

"How much money did they bring?"

Bill shrugged, picked up a piece of Texas barbecue and put it into his mouth: "Little Peter is still sober. He only used the gold he bought as collateral and borrowed a total of about 2 million yuan from each of the two companies."

"Kanes, be more aggressive."

"He used crude oil spot as collateral and borrowed a total of 4.4 million yuan from multiple banks."

"hiss.."

"fxxx!"

David couldn't hold it back in the end, turned his head and spat out a curse word at the stove and sighed.

"The birthday gift you sent me is so fucking exciting!"

"Hahaha~"

Bill smiled nonchalantly and said, "There is more exciting news, do you want to hear it?"

"stop!"

"Let me slow down first..."

David immediately interrupted Bill, put his hands on the stove and lowered his head to "think hard" for a moment, and then asked suddenly.

"Hey, Bill."

"Did you grow up in England?"

"correct."

"Then do you have an in-depth understanding of the rules of English football and rugby?"

"Uh..." Bill didn't understand what David meant, so he shook his head and replied.

"Soccer, I'm familiar with it."

"Rugby, I only watched it on TV and didn't understand its rules."

David crossed his arms across his chest, gently scraped the stubble on his chin with the fingertips of his right hand, and said with squinted eyes.

"Then you might as well listen to me first about the unique rules of rugby."

"Then, tell me more exciting news~"

"Okay!" Bill leaned back against the cabinet, put the plate in his hands, and looked attentively.

(PS: I don’t want to be out of context in this column, but I’m so sleepy today that my brain doesn’t work. Sorry!)