Manhattan Reborn 1978

a new day.

new York.

Morning~

Manhattan, in a coffee shop at the intersection of Seventh Avenue and 59th Street.

Professor Gila Cox of the Juilliard School was sitting in the window seat of the coffee shop, resting her chin on one hand and watching the small spoon in the coffee cup in her hand swirl around and around. .

ten minutes later.

The coffee has gone cold, and the person she was waiting for has arrived~

"Hi~ I'm sorry, I was stuck in a traffic jam on the road..." Jane Fonda sat opposite Gila and apologized repeatedly.

But when she saw that Gila didn't seem to hear it and continued to stir the coffee absentmindedly, she couldn't help but ask with a smile.

"Are you thinking about that Mr. Acklade Parkinson again?"

"...No! I didn't~"

"Hahaha~"

Jane Fonda showed an "I understand" look and laughed.

"Ok~ You didn't!"

"But... Xina has gone to Hawaii for vacation, so we might as well fly over together to play with her!"

"Uh-huh??"

"What did you say?"

"When did Xina go to Hawaii?" Gila's eyes widened and she asked anxiously.

"Hehe~"

"What's wrong? Just tell me... do you want to go?"

"me.."

"I still won't go~" Gila lowered her head dejectedly and said after a fierce ideological struggle.

"Why?"

"Sunshine + sandy beach + fresh sea breeze + mature and charming Aclade..."

"You don't even want to go?"

"..." Gila had a worried look on her face and said nothing.

Seeing her friend's hesitation, Jane Fonda decided for her directly: "Stop talking~ You go back and pack your things now. We will take tonight's flight to Hawaii!"

"listen to me!"

"Just think that you are going on vacation with me to relax~"

"ok?"

"...Okay~" Gila Cox bit her lip and nodded "reluctantly".

The hint of joy in the corner of her eyes was all seen by Jane Fonda.

----

On the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii.

Honolulu International Airport.

Harold Stone, who came overnight from New York, stared at Xina in front of him with red eyes, and asked in a hoarse voice.

"I... am I late?"

"Sorry~" Zina looked at the disheveled and haggard Mr. Stone, suppressed the sigh in her heart, and said warmly.

"I do not know either."

"you.."

"Can you take me to see her?"

"..Can!"

"But she may not want to see you..."

"Hush!!" Mr. Stone took a sharp breath and lowered his head dejectedly.

"Take me there...Thank you~"

"..." Zina stared at him for a few seconds, put on her sunglasses, turned and walked out of the airport.

It is undeniable that men as "infatuated" as Mr. Stone are extremely rare now~

----

A civilian dock near the Marine Corps training base in eastern Honolulu.

David withdrew his right hand, nodded to Mr. Gardener, and said seriously: "Sorry to trouble you!"

"Haha~" Mr. Gardener shrugged with a relaxed smile.

"If next time, it's this kind of so-called vacation... I won't come!"

"Hahaha~" David laughed and shook his head, glanced at the three Elena girls standing on the far shore, and stepped up the ladder of the yacht.

. . .

Karnes stood on the deck of the yacht that Bill had acquired, looking up at the blue sky, and asked David next to him.

"Are you a hand-off shopkeeper again?"

"It really is your style!"

"...Haha~" David smiled bitterly, feeling that he was a little wronged. He turned to look at the dock getting further and further away and whispered.

"I can't understand, I can't figure it out, I can't get rid of it, I can't let go..."

"What would you do if it were you?"

Karnes curled his lips with disdain and waved his hand: "I will just tell her to get lost!"

"fxxxyou!" David raised his middle finger with contempt.

"Hahaha~"

. . .

On the sea north of Honolulu Island, the yacht David was riding on was at full speed, heading towards the dreamland of sea fishing that Captain Bill Gusselin said ~

After half an hour.

in the cabin.

David looked out the window on the back deck, patted the dozing Carnes, and said.

"Hey~ We seem to be slowing down, we should be there soon!"

"..oh!"

Karnes rubbed his sleepy eyes, sat up from the sofa, kicked David casually, and asked.

"Why do you think of fishing?"

"Can you fish?"

"Hehe~"

"We're already here, and you think of asking these questions?"

"...?!"

David looked at Kanes' "stupid" look, reached out, opened the fishing gear bag at his feet, and asked.

"Do you remember what I just said?"

"Uh... almost~ what's wrong?"

"Then what do you think?"

"It's just the two of us here. If you have any ideas, just tell us~"

"Ha~"

Carnes poured himself a glass of freshly squeezed ice sugar cane juice, tilted his head and looked at David sideways, and laughed.

"Are you actually impatient?"

"I thought... you could endure it any longer!"

David rolled his eyes, took out a fishing rod from his fishing gear bag, gently stroked the fishing line and said.

"Do you think...that from the moment I saw Bill, countless questions would pop up in my mind?"

"Yes~ but you didn't ask anything..."

"Hehe~"

"If I don't ask, you will tell me...right?"

Kanes felt that this "circling" game between the two was boring, so he pouted and said directly.

"You deliberately asked me about little Peter's family to let me know that you have not investigated us through any other channels."

"You asked your family and the Sidrich family to go to the big island to play, and you stayed with me... You also know from me the biggest risks and variables of investing in gold... right?"

"right!!"

David gathered up the fishing line, put it on the small table, looked at Karnes seriously, and said, "Before we met for the first time, I didn't expect that the Sidrich family would be able to come up with it."

"more than one billion yuan!"

"Did you know that most large companies listed on Nasdaq have a total market capitalization of less than one billion dollars?"

"The Sidrich family's dirty money was all laundered when I left New York and went to London."

"I just told you and Jellal about my plan to invest in gold, and Polly brought me this news..."

"These... are too coincidental?!"

David saw that Carnes only twitched his eyebrows twice, sighed, and continued.

"You just made a lot of money in the gold market a few years ago..."

"The danger inside it... you should know better than me!"

"Even now that the Bretton Woods system has collapsed and the price of gold has soared several times, the value of gold as a rare precious metal has still not been fully released~"

"Now~!"

"The second oil crisis is about to break out~"

"The price of gold is closely related to the price of oil. Many people have learned the painful lessons of the last oil crisis and will definitely not let this speculation go!"

"But whether in the gold market or the crude oil market, there is no relatively open futures market that can serve investors."

“Only one petroleum-related heating oil futures has been listed in New York.”

"The spot market, the water is too deep!"

“Especially the crude oil spot market!”

"Buy, deliver, transport, store, sell, etc. ."

"If there is a problem at every step, it will be a loss that I cannot bear at all."

"Because not all the money I can invest belongs to me."

"They trust me and that's why they give me the money."

"I must protect this precious trust!"

"So, before I figure out the situation, I can only get an answer from you~"

. . .

After listening, Kanes licked his lips, put down the juice cup in his hand, pondered for a while, and then said.

“In the City of London, gold futures have always existed~”

"This is a secret that everyone knows, they just keep silent about it..."

"The last time I bought some gold futures, I made a lot of money and was forced to close my position by those guys... so I bought spot gold instead."

"But the underground gold futures market has not been affected by the soaring gold price."

“On the contrary, it has become more active due to the rapid fluctuations in gold prices!”

"so.."

"Now in the City of London, many major banks outside the UK are secretly trading gold futures contracts as a backup investment hedging method."

. . .

David lowered his head and frowned and thought for a moment, then looked at Karnes again and asked with burning eyes.

“Who are the biggest bulls? Who are the bears?”

"I don't know..." Kanes spread his hands and smiled helplessly.

"I just said it~ everyone is secretly trading futures contracts..."

"Only half the margin + no fully open market quotation + no real trading place."

"Credit is the only means to bind each other to perform their contracts."

"If someone happened to be holding a large short gold price position before this oil crisis..."

"Then he can only find a way to settle it, or directly declare that he will not perform the contract and default on the debt."

"Hush~huh~"

"Last question!" David clenched his fists, suppressing the excitement in his heart, and asked.

"Last time you sold spot gold at a high price... who was the buyer?"

"Bank~"

“When prices are high, they purchase large amounts of spot goods and then place large short orders in the underground futures market~”

"When the price is low, they close their short positions and go long, using auctions and other methods to raise the price of gold little by little...and the cycle repeats~"

"These are the basic operations for two-way profit in futures trading. You should have thought of it a long time ago, right?"

"..Um!"

"But ~ another characteristic of futures trading is that if there is a short order, there must be a long order. Only when they correspond to each other can the transaction be completed."

"Who are the people betting against banks in the underground futures market?"

"Hehe~"

"This is complicated~"

Karnes raised a few fingers and smiled.

"For example: people who think they can seize opportunities; people who are blinded by many illusions in the market; people who have special speculative needs; people who are extremely greedy and hope to make a fortune from speculation, etc.~"

"There is never a shortage of winners in the world, and no one cares who the losers are~"

“They only care about whether they can make more money!!”

"I understand~" The expression on David's face changed again and again, and finally he said with a bitter smile that turned a little red.

"I once heard a saying..."

"Those who work on Wall Street, please leave your ethics at home before going to work~"

"Um...what about such funny words?"

"However, it is very appropriate~"

"Morality, in the financial trading market, will only have a strong impact on your mentality~"

“It’s a great choice to keep it at home for family and friends!”

"Haha~" Kanes said without any irony in his words, looking directly at David calmly.

"..." David scratched his head vigorously, quickly adjusted his mentality, and sighed.

"Okay~"

"I'll call Sam tonight~!"

"Tomorrow happens to be Monday, let's... enter!"

"Wow~"

"Hahaha~ OK!"

"How much are you going to vote?"

David thought for a while and stretched out a hand to Kanes: "According to the original plan ~ [-] million meters, spot gold!"

"Hmm~"

Karnes crossed his legs, shook his toes, thought for a moment and said, "Is there more?"

"Crude oil... you don't want to invest?"

"Think about it~"

"Its return is definitely much higher than investing in gold..."

"but I do not have.."

"You want...?!" David looked at Karnes in surprise and understood some of his thoughts.

Karnes smiled and shrugged: "Yeah~"

"Don't tell me, you have never had any idea in your heart!"

"Haha~" David smiled calmly, pinched his nose and shook his head.

"I have indeed thought about it..."

"But I don't want to... lose you as a friend!"

"Hahaha~"

“In business, you must dare to think and do in order to make money!”

Kanes raised two fingers in a very relaxed mood and said with a smile: "You take care of the funding problem~"

"I am responsible for the buyers and sellers of crude oil spot!"

"I want [-]% of the profit!"

"How about it?"

David looked at Carnes' scissor hand gesture and couldn't help but smile: "Then transportation, storage and..."

"Tsk~"

Carnes curled his lips speechlessly and waved: "That David Romano can be responsible for these things at the port of Naples~"

"Bring him in, and we'll give him a share."

"Minute?"

"How much do you want to share with him?"

"Haha~ I don't care about this. Go talk to him."

"..." David couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth a few times, quickly calculated in his mind for more than ten seconds, and shook his head.

"You took [-]% too much!"

"At most [-]%, love or not!"

"what??"

"Are you bargaining?"

"Haha~ Why not?"

"Haven't you heard that sentence? We are friends, so come and chop me!"

"... I'll chop you, right?"

"I changed my mind, I want [-]%!"

"You want a fart!"

"fxxxyou!"

"fxxxyou!"

David and Canes were like two fighting cocks, gesturing at each other with their middle fingers and spitting obscenities and saliva. .

After a few minutes.

It seemed that both of them felt that their behavior was too childish, so they stopped temporarily and looked at each other angrily with big eyes and small eyes. .

"Hey~ you bastard!"

"If I hadn't found buyers and sellers, you wouldn't have had a chance..."

"Stop talking nonsense!"

"Just [-]%!"

“..I#￥…”

"Haha~ I don't listen to puppies barking!"

"One percent, one percent, just one percent!"

"..." Seeing that David shamelessly covered his ears, Kanes kept mumbling over and over again, making his teeth itch with anger. .

David smiled evilly and covered his ears with his hands. After chanting the "Brainwashing Demonic Sound" for a while, he put down his hands proudly and said.

"Okay~"

"In addition to the [-]% return, how about I help you find an investment project that can obtain long-term + high returns?"

"Long term? High returns?"

"What project? Venture capital?"

"No, it doesn't count as venture capital."

David leaned back on the sofa, thought for a moment and said, "You must agree to my conditions first before I can tell you."

"It is part of our cooperation, and I will definitely not make you feel disadvantaged~"

Kanes also stopped playing around, stared at the juice cup and considered it for a while, then nodded slowly.

"can!"

"Hahaha~ Then let's... seal the deal?!"

"make a deal!"

. . .

The two of them finally relaxed completely after they reached an agreement on deepening their cooperation.

Karnes lay down on the sofa again and asked David lazily: "Tell me, let me hear your new plan first?"

"Hehe~"

"It's not really a new plan either."

David also followed Karnes's example, lying opposite him and smiling: "I thought of it when I first met Saudi Prince Difar in New York..."

"It's just that Defal is not the best person to execute this plan."

"Oh?"

Karnes guessed it immediately and blurted out: "You want...Waleed to be our investment agent?"

"That's right!"

David found a very comfortable position for himself, winked at Karnes, and said with a smile: "Bill, have you taken care of Walid?"

"Uh... almost~"

"Hehe~"

"you are too humble!"

"That guy Bill...Walid is not on the same level as him at all!"

"grade?"

"...Forget it~"

"I'm not used to making random comments behind other people's backs~"

"As long as you can be sure that Walid is trustworthy, our plan can be launched at any time."

"...ok!" Karnes unconsciously scratched his chin with his hand, recalling the conversation with Bill last night, and nodded.

----

Honolulu International Airport.

It’s approaching noon~

A flight landed slowly on the runway.

Mr. Fair, who had come from Paris, walked out of the airport carrying a small suitcase.

on the taxi.

Mr. Fair looked at the beautiful scenery outside the window and gave a cordial greeting to the David boy he met outside London Heathrow Airport.

Because it was because of David's introduction that he got a long-lost big business!